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For five decades, every beep of a barcode - with GS1 standards behind it - has powered trust for everyone everywhere.</p> <div class="row pt-spacer-4"> <div class="col-md-12"> <p class="body-sm"><a class="arrow-default pr-spacer-5" href="/industries/retail" style="text-decoration:none;">GS1 standards in retail</a> <a class="arrow-default" href="https://www.gs1.org/industries/healthcare/standards" style="text-decoration:none;">GS1 standards in healthcare</a></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-1 col-s-12 col-xs-12 pt-spacer-3-sm"> </div> <div class="col-md-4 col-s-12 col-xs-12"> <section class="block-content-image_with_caption_block"> <div class="image-with-caption-default"> <div> <div><div> <div> <div> <img loading="lazy" src="//gs1go2.azureedge.net/cdn/ff/HPR1KBas3KbeEhxUDgYRtmGbEffENz_T17ygaUoUj-U/1719333528/public/2024-06/gs1-50th-scan-then-and-now_circle.jpg" width="255" height="255" alt="GS1 50th scan then and now" /> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> </div> </div> </div></div><div class="bg-ui-1 bg-color _none pt-spacer-5 pb-spacer-5"><div class="container"> <div class="layout row layout-builder__layout"> <div class="col-md-7 col-s-12 col-xs-12"> <div class="block-content-basic block block-block-content block-block-contentc8c4aef0-64be-4756-8b9f-9e0c7642ecb6"> <div class="content"> <div class="clearfix text-formatted"> <div><h3>Digital transformation will unlock limitless possibilities for businesses, people and the planet</h3> <p>Our future has never looked brighter. QR Codes powered by GS1 are transforming the simple scan, opening a gateway of in-depth product information. 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On 26 June—in a Marsh supermarket located in Ohio—a pack of Wrigley’s gum becomes the first product in the world to be scanned with a barcode.</p> </div> <div class="wrapper wrapper-body"> <h3>1977</h3> <p>The European Article Numbering Association (EAN<sup>®</sup>) is established as an international, not-for-profit standards organisation in Brussels, Belgium. The new EAN barcode is fully-compatible with the U.P.C barcode in the U.S.</p> </div> <div class="wrapper wrapper-body"> <h3>1983</h3> <p>Traditional barcodes are expanded and used beyond checkout counters for wholesale multipacks, cases and cartons.</p> </div> <div class="wrapper wrapper-body"> <h3>1989</h3> <p>GS1<sup>®</sup> publishes its first international standard for electronic data interchange (EDI), creating an efficient, secure and automated way for trading partners to seamlessly exchange information and communicate with one another.</p> </div> <div class="wrapper wrapper-body"> <h3>1995</h3> <p>GS1 expands into the healthcare sector, deploying standards to increase patient safety, drive supply chain efficiencies—and improve the identification and traceability of medical products.</p> </div> <div class="wrapper wrapper-body"> <h3>1999</h3> <p>Specifications for the GS1 DataBar<sup>®</sup> are approved. These “reduced space” and stacked barcodes can identify small items like jewelry and fresh foods—and carry more information than traditional barcodes.</p> </div> <div class="wrapper wrapper-body"> <h3>2000</h3> <p>At the start of the new millennium, GS1 is present in 90 countries.</p> </div> <div class="wrapper wrapper-body"> <h3>2002</h3> <p>GS1’s Global Standards Management Process (GSMP) is launched, providing a neutral setting for industry to discuss common business challenges and establish new standards-based solutions for their businesses.</p> </div> <div class="wrapper wrapper-body"> <h3>2003</h3> <p>EPCglobal, Inc. is formed to innovate and develop standards for the Electronic Product Code (EPC) and to support the use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, ultimately improving inventory accuracy and increasing supply chain visibility.</p> </div> <div class="wrapper wrapper-body"> <h3>2004</h3> <p>The GS1 DataMatrix is approved and is the first two-dimensional barcode adopted by GS1.</p> <p>The GS1 Global Data Synchronisation Network (GS1 GDSN) is launched. This product data network makes it possible for any company, anywhere, to seamlessly share high-quality product information.</p> </div> <div class="wrapper wrapper-body"> <h3>2005</h3> <p>The UCC and EAN merge, creating a single, international organisation with 101 local GS1 Member Organisations.</p> </div> <div class="wrapper wrapper-body"> <h3>2006</h3> <p>GS1 launches the first global traceability standard, paving the way for improved supply chain interoperability and transparency.</p> </div> <div class="wrapper wrapper-body"> <h3>2010</h3> <p>As e-commerce grows, GS1 enters the business-to-consumer (B2C) world, exploring standards to give consumers direct access to product information through their mobile devices.</p> </div> <div class="wrapper wrapper-body"> <h3>2013</h3> <p>GS1 receives accreditation by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) as an issuing agency for the unique identifiers (UDIs) used to globally and uniquely identify medical devices.</p> </div> <div class="wrapper wrapper-body"> <h3>2014</h3> <p>GS1 builds a new global strategy to respond to the demands of digital, omni-channel commerce, including ratification of their first “digital” standard.</p> </div> <div class="wrapper wrapper-body"> <h3>2016</h3> <p>The BBC names the GS1 barcode one of “the 50 things that made the world economy”.</p> </div> <div class="wrapper wrapper-body"> <h3>2018</h3> <p>GS1 expands into the financial sector as an accredited issuer of Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs), the codes that uniquely identify companies participating in financial transactions.</p> </div> <div class="wrapper wrapper-body"> <h3>2019</h3> <p>The GS1 Registry Platform (GRP) is established as a trusted source of GS1 Company Prefixes (GCPs), the Global Trade Item Number<sup>®</sup> (GTIN<sup>®</sup>), or barcode numbers and GS1 Global Location Numbers (GLNs). Verified by GS1 makes it possible for users to leverage the platform: brand owners can share basic data about their products and retailers and marketplaces can verify the identity of the products they sell.</p> </div> <div class="wrapper wrapper-body"> <h3>2020</h3> <p>The GS1 Digital Link standard leverages QR codes to help connect consumers to rich amounts of brand-authorised data on the web, including product information, promotions, ingredients, recipes—and more.</p> </div> <div class="wrapper wrapper-body"> <h3>2021</h3> <p>GS1 supports industry with an ambition to read two-dimensional barcodes—QR codes and GS1 DataMatrix barcodes—at retail points-of-sale around the world by the end of 2027.</p> </div> <div class="wrapper wrapper-body"> <h3>2022</h3> <p>A joint World Trade Organization (WTO) and World Economic Forum (WEF) report outlines the power of GS1 product and location identification to make cross-border trade more efficient, inclusive and sustainable.</p> </div> <div class="wrapper wrapper-body"> <h3>2023</h3> <p>GS1 celebrates the 50th anniversary of the barcode together with its family of 116 local GS1 Member Organisations (MOs). 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