GS1 US™, a not-for-profit member-driven organization, administers the U.P.C. and develops worldwide standards and solutions for identification numbers, data carriers, electronic commerce, and global data synchronization.
More than 200,000 GS1 US member companies now use open, global GS1 Standards to optimize their value chains and business processes.
The first U.P.C. barcode was scanned in 1974, changing the way the grocery industry conducted business. Today, the standards behind the barcode have grown into the global GS1 System, used by more than 1 million companies doing business in 150 countries across more than 20 industries.
In the United States, the GS1 System administrator is GS1 US.
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