Container for use by travelling sales person

A container, for example a bag or suitcase, for use by a travelling sales person in transporting goods from one retail outlet to another provided with a display stand movable between a collapsed state within the bag for transportation purposes and an erect state projecting from the bag for display purposes, in which the display stand is a garment display stand comprising a base, a multisectional vertical column, locking means biassed into a locking position for securing each of the sections of the vertical column to a next section when the vertical column is brought from a collapsed contracted state to an erect extended state, and a horizontal rail mounted centrally at the top of the column, and the vertical column is telescopic between an erect extended state and a collapsed contracted state whereby the display stand may be brought into the erect extended state by an operator by a single-handed continuous movement.