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| Company type | Not-for-profit organisation |
|---|---|
| Industry | Standards |
| Founded | 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 |
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.
GS1 has 118 local member organizations and over 2 million user companies. Its main office is in Brussels (Avenue Louise).
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- ^ "GS1 grows by adding two new Member Organisations | GS1". Archived from the original on 21 October 2020. Retrieved 6 June 2019.