Today, millions of businesses around the world power commerce with GS1 Barcode Standards. GS1, the not-for-profit organization behind global barcode standards, has a bold goal designed to help ...

Benjamin Claeys is CEO of QR TIGER, MENU TIGER, and GiftLips. He also hosts Stay QRious, a podcast about QR code best practices. We’re in a time when the business landscape constantly shifts into ...

A new case study has shown how Mercy healthcare system has reaped the benefits of integrating GS1 Standards, including bar codes, across the medical device supply chain. The study, "Perfect Order and ...

The GS1 DataMatrix barcode is recommended or mandated in healthcare regulations across more than 70 countries BRUSSELS, April 15, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Twenty years ago, GS1 expanded barcode ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- GearChain has launched a free Bulk GS1 Digital Link and Barcode Label Printer that streamlines how businesses create and print barcode labels at scale.

Supply-chain standards organization GS1 US has released a Barcode Capabilities Test Kit to help retailers gauge their readiness to shift from linear Universal Product Codes (UPCs) to data-rich 2D ...

LAWRENCE — In 1973, a group called GS1 US invented a system of little black bars and numbers that could be printed on jugs of milk, candy bars and thousands of other products in stores everywhere. The ...

BRUSSELS, Jan. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- As governments and businesses around the world face one of the most significant challenges in history – an unprecedented rapid mass development, distribution, ...

The GTIN – the number behind the barcode – was developed 50 years ago and transformed the global economy, and now, GS1 "calls for collaboration towards next generation barcodes." GS1. It is a neutral, ...

This year markes the 40th anniversary that organizations united to adopt a universal way to conduct business using GS1 Standards. Beginning with a U.P.C. (Universal Product Code) barcode, the GS1 ...