GS1 Launch
EAN Australia evolves
into GS1 Australia
Local custodian of the EAN•UCC system, EAN Australia will
relaunch itself as GS1 Australia during its annual conference,
Impetus 2005, on July 12 this year.
The new identity follows the merger of the world’s supply chain
standards bodies: the Uniform Code Council (UCC), the Electronic
Commerce Council of Canada and EAN International.
The new international body and its 155 member country
organisations will be universally known as GS1.
EAN Australia CEO Maria Palazzolo said GS1
meant far more than a name change.
“It’s the evolution of a body once purely focused on standards
development into an organisation serving the needs of
members striving towards best practice supply chain
management,” she said.
“When EAN Australia becomes GS1 Australia in July, it
not only takes on a new name and a new identity, it
symbolises our global unity and equips us to support the
future demands of over one million companies using our
common global language of trade, the EAN•UCC system.
“GS1 represents the three core pillars essential to the future
development of global collaborative commerce through new
standards andservices: one global system, one global standard
and one standards organisation.”
The familiar EAN Australia icon will be phased out in the months
before its replacement is adopted at the Impetus 2005
conference in July.
“We are very excited about our relaunch and we hope as many
people as possible from Australian industry will join us at
Impetus 2005 to celebrate the last 25 proud years of EAN Australia
and its evolution into GS1 Australia,” Palazzolo said.
In fact, the theme of life and evolution will be central to the
GS1 Australia launch.
“Just as the DNA’s double helix carries the biological code
for all living things, the EAN•UCC system is the foundation
for a common global language of trade,” Mrs Palazzolo said.
The launch of GS1 Australia will take place at the
end of day one proceedings of Impetus 2005, on
Tuesday July 12 at Crown Towers Hotel, Melbourne.
