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Standards and services

Standards & services

Helping your business at every stage
to be successful and thrive.

We power organisations with globally recognised, trusted standards that make it easy to identify, capture and share data with confidence.

From barcodes to next‑generation digital product information, our standards and services provide a universal language that strengthens transparency, interoperability and efficiency across every sector.

Standards

Our standards provide a common way for businesses to uniquely identify, accurately capture and automatically share information about their products, locations, assets and more.

Data services

Designed to support the creation of data about products and locations and to be shared or checked by data users and trading partners.