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 ...

For more than five decades, Global Standards 1 (GS1) meant one thing: the barcode. That familiar pattern of stripes changed how goods move around the world. Today, the standards are growing. They now ...

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 ...

50 years after the barcode was first scanned, 22 leaders from some of the world’s biggest companies sign a global joint statement calling for the transition to QR Codes with GS1 standards to ...

The farm-to-table concept, built on direct, local sourcing, has evolved into a model that seeks to reduce the gap between producers and consumers. It requires an efficient structure that uses a more ...

A new revolutionary solution, named GS1 US Mobile Scan, offers the next generation of product identification, helping brands and retailers transform their business by delivering robust product ...

GS1 US has released a service known as the GS1 US Data Hub that enables retailers to quickly identify a product supplier by means of an RFID or bar-code label attached to that item, and helps to ...

“It has been a challenging process for suppliers and retail trading partners to ensure product information is accurate and understandable,” said Bernie Hogan, senior vice president of emerging ...

Global standards organization GS1 has a working group developing a specification that would enable a single Web identity for every product label, whether a 2D bar code, a QR code, a Near Field ...

EWING, N.J., Jan. 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- GS1 US® has introduced the GS1 US Certified Identification Partner Program, established to provide brands with a new channel for securing their GS1 product ...