GS1 India is promoted by the Ministry
of Commerce, Government of India and was registered in
June 1996 as a society. It is a joint
Government-Industry initiative at educating the
Indian trade and industry on use of the GS1
numbering system for unique identification of
products/services and locations in line with
international best practices.
It's Board of Management includes representatives
from the following:-
- Ministry of Commerce,
Government of India.
- APEDA (Agricultural &
Processed Food products Export Development
Authority)
- ASSOCHAM (Associated
Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India)
- BIS (Bureau
of Indian Standards)
- CII (Confederation of
Indian Industry)
- FICCI (Federation
of Indian Chambers of Commerce and
Industry)
- FIEO (Federation of Indian
Export Organisations)
- Spices
Board
- IMC (Indian Merchants'
Chamber)
- IIP (Indian Institute of
Packaging)
The
Organisation is staffed with professionals possessing
years of related experience in Electronic Data
Interchange, Electronic Commerce and Automatic data
capture technologies etc.
GS1 is geared to service Indian trade & Industry
through its suite of services
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