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GS1
Organization for barcode standards / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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GS1 is a not-for-profit, international organization developing and maintaining its own standards for barcodes and the corresponding issue company prefixes. The best known of these standards is the barcode, a symbol printed on products that can be scanned electronically.
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Company type | Not-for-profit organisation |
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Industry | Standards |
Founded | 26 April 1974; 50 years ago (26 April 1974) |
Headquarters | Brussels, Belgium |
Number of locations | 116 offices worldwide[1][2] |
Key people | Renaud de Barbuat (CEO) |
Revenue | 30,662,000 Euro (2021) ![]() |
Website | www |
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GS1 has 118 local member organizations and over 2 million user companies. Its main office is in Brussels (Avenue Louise).