About GS1 Canada
GS1 has 114 member
organizations around the world
Over 1.5 million
companies around the world use GS1 standards
Over 100 million
products around the world carry GS1 barcodes
More than 6 billion GS1
barcodes are scanned every day
GS1 believes in
the power of
standards to transform the way we work and live
GS1 is a neutral, not-for-profit association that develops and maintains global standards for
efficient business communication.
GS1 standards improve the efficiency, safety, security, sustainability and visibility of value chains
across physical and digital channels in 25 sectors.
Our scale and reach help ensure that GS1 standards create a common language that supports systems and
processes across the globe.
In Canada, through our unique community management role, we collaborate with business leaders, sector
boards, advisory councils and industry work groups to develop standards, guidelines and
non-proprietary business solutions. Partnering with industry, we provide education and
implementation support to subscribers of all sizes across multiple sectors.
When directed by industry, GS1 Canada develops Industry Managed Solutions to address specific
sector-wide, non-competitive business process issues, designed to enable organizations of all sizes
to meet Canadian trading and regulatory requirements.
GS1 Canada is a global leader in delivering the highest quality, perpetually cleansed and updated
bilingual product content, becoming the one true source of data excellence for Canadian industry.
GS1 Canada's Roles
Standards Developer
- GS1 Canada’s primary role is the development of global standards that
create a common foundation for business by uniquely identifying, accurately
capturing, and automatically sharing vital information about products, locations
and assets
- Global standards level the playing field for business of all scale and are used
to enhance business processes across the value chain
- We develop global standards in partnership with the industry experts and
business teams who use them in their work.
- GS1 Canada is responsible to represent the requirements of Canadian industry at
the global level with global standards-setting bodies.
- Our participation in the Global Standards Management Process (GSMP) ensures that
global standards meet Canadian trading partner and regulatory requirements
To learn more about Standards, visit our
Standards page.
Community Manager
- GS1 Canada is led by Industry with five Industry Sector Boards representing
Grocery, Foodservice, General Merchandise and Hardlines, Pharmacy and
Healthcare. These boards use a community decision making process to determine
GS1 Canada’s priorities
- GS1 Canada brings together representatives from all points along the value chain
to identify common business process issues, determine global standards and
develop industry solutions that meet the needs of subscribers of all sizes
- We manage global and local strategic partnerships with trade associations,
global standards bodies and Provincial and Federal Government departments
- Built by industry for industry, our community management role guides us in the
creation of Industry Managed Solutions
- We collaborate with industry through active workgroups composed of subject
matter experts, manufacturers, distributors, transporters, retailers, healthcare
providers, foodservice operators, technology solution providers and trade
associations
Want to get involved? For more information on how to join one of our workgroups,
please email us at info@gs1ca.org.
These groups consist of:
- 5 Industry Sector Boards
- Global & Local Strategic Partnerships
- Association & Government Relations
- 11 Industry Workgroups
Want to get involved? For more information on how to join one of our sector
workgroups, please email us at info@gs1ca.org
Educator
- In collaboration with subscribers, workgroups and sector boards, our Global
Standards and Industry Relations team provide education support during the
community management, standards development and implementation processes.
- We provide practical information and tools that guide the integration of global
standards and best practices into business processes.
- The Learning Zone provides 24/7 access to online training programs for all
standards, sectors and industry managed solutions.
- GS1 Canada hosts and participates in industry events and webinars and offers
professional consulting services to custom build training programs that enable
subscribers to implement standards into their business processes.
Visit the GS1 Canada Learning
Zone
Implementation Partner
- GS1 Canada is committed to helping Canadian industry succeed in an increasingly
competitive eCommerce driven marketplace by using global standards to increase
efficiency, safety, security and sustainability.
- Directed by industry, GS1 Canada solves non-competitive business process issues
for organizations of all scale through the delivery of Industry Managed
Solutions, attribute guides, standards support and other means.
- The required content for each of our solutions was developed and standardized in
collaboration with Canadian business leaders and subject matter experts on a
non-proprietary basis
- To achieve the highest standard of data excellence, we continually enhance our
solutions to include value-added tools such as GTIN discrepancy reporting,
category audits and system validations
- Our solutions contain flexible content capture, loading and sharing options and
value-added features, meeting the demand for increased visibility and data
excellence for all subscribers
- We enable data providers to maximize operational efficiency as content is shared
with multiple trading partners at the same time from a single source of truth
through our one-to-many process.
- As a neutral, not-for-profit association, our non-proprietary solutions are
developed on a cost-recovery basis, enabling subscribers to meet Canadian
trading requirements at the lowest possible cost to industry
View our Industry Managed Solutions