Also known as Global Standard One, GS1 AISBL
GS1 is a global coordinating office leading a collection of neutral not-for-profit organizations which together develop and maintain standards for barcodes and other supply chain technologies. The best known of these standards is the UPC/EAN barcode, a symbol printed on products that can be scanned electronically.
Key facts
- Company.name
- GS1
- Company.type
- Not-for-profit organisation
- Company.industry
- Standards
- Company.num_locations
- 116 offices worldwide
- Company.location
- Brussels, Belgium
- Company.key_people
- Renaud de Barbuat (CEO)
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1974
- Location
- Brussels, Belgium
- Also known as
- GS1
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.434864.9 · ISNI 0000 0004 7412 3062
~8 min read
Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- History
- Barcodes
- Sunrise 2027
- Standards
- Industries
- Retail and marketplaces
- Healthcare
- Other industries
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
GS1 is a global coordinating office leading a collection of neutral not-for-profit organizations which together develop and maintain standards for barcodes and other supply chain technologies. The best known of these standards is the UPC/EAN barcode, a symbol printed on products that can be scanned electronically.
GS1 has 120 local member organizations covering 150 countries, and over 2 million user companies. Its main office is in Brussels, in Avenue Louise.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “GS1” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.