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 ...

LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. -- Although most food retailers are now able to scan and process 13- and eight-digit EAN bar codes from outside North America, a small number of mostly small to midsized companies ...

EWING, N.J., March 31, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Fifty years ago today, on March 31, 1971, leaders from the biggest names in commerce came together and transformed the global economy forever by developing ...

New York, New York, Feb. 04, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As the GS1 Sunrise 2027 deadline approaches, Quick Response (QR) Codes are set to become the standard across point-of-sale (POS) and point-of-care ...

GS1, a nongovernmental organization based in Belgium that manages the bar codes scanned over 6 billion times daily across the globe, is set to unlock the future of the global retail industry with next ...

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 ...

GS1 has formed a Mission Specific Working Group to “define a standard structure for URIs” connecting products to the Web with GS1 identifiers, whether a 2D bar code, a QR code, a Near Field ...