Rumors circulating on social media have forced GS1 US into issuing a statement confirming Universal Product Code (UPC) labels do not indicate a product’s country of origin. On Monday, the ...

GS1 US now manages and maintains the GS1 US Color and Size Codes, a database that allows suppliers, manufacturers and retailers to codify product color and size, enabling consistent and efficient data ...

The fact that Amazon is now the third largest retailer in the world, according to Forbes, means that when the online marketplace makes changes to its policies, manufacturers and brands across ...

Counterfeiting has become a multi-billion-dollar problem, affecting various industries in the world, from luxury goods to electronics. It’s a crime that feeds from the act of stealing the identity of ...

On the 50 th anniversary of the barcode being scanned for the first time, 22 industry champions – including marketplaces such as Alibaba.com, retailers like Carrefour and manufacturers like Procter & ...

GS1 has formed a Mission Specific Working Group to “define a standard structure for URIs” connecting products to the Web with GS1 identifiers, whether a 2D bar code, a QR code, a Near Field ...