Our history
Key dates in GS1 Australia's' history
2007
- Meat and Livestock Australia launch eMTC standards based on EANCOM®
- RFID pilot ‘National EPC Network Demonstrator Project Extension’ completed
- NEHTA chooses GS1 XML
- GS1net™ goes live
- Healthcare eCommerce pilot ‘Monash Pharmacy Project Phase 2’ completed
- Scientific field tests show feasibility of using RFID at up to 4 watt
- GS1 Australia has MOUs with ten universities and TAFE colleges
2006
- NPC for health sector products roll-out begins
- GS1 Community Management Tool release
- GS1 Australia opens training facility in Sydney
- EPC Network Australian Demonstrator Project Report launched
- First Coles supplier begins full electronic trading using GS1 standardised B2B rules
2005
- EAN Australia undergoes re branding to GS1 Australia in line with global initiative to reflect one global organisation, one global system and one global standard
- Eighty-six full time staff employed
2004
- EPCglobal Australia launched
- EAN celebrates 25 years of servicing Australian businesses
- 12,815 EAN Australia members
2003
- EAN Australia awarded its first scholarship in Graduate Certification in supply chain management
- UCC and EAN International became a single organisation
2000
- EAN Australia celebrated its 21st birthday
- 11,590 EAN Australia members
1997
- Australia's Deputy Prime Minister, Tim Fischer, officially launched EANnet®
1996
- Mobile EANWORKS was launched
- Government IT head backed the EAN•UCC System
1995
- EANWORKS, a life size supply chain model, as an education aid was launched at Mt Waverley
- 5,860 EAN Australia members
1994
- EAN's Sydney office opens
1993
- APNA changes name to EAN Australia
1990
- Franklins became the first supermarket chain to introduce scanning in all of its 191 stores around Australia
- Retail scan code received federal endorsement
- The pharmacy industry adopted APN barcoding
1988
- Grace Bros became the first scanning department store in NSW, while Kmart was the first in Victoria
- 2,989 APNA members
1986
- 500 stores now using scanning technology throughout Australia
- 90% of grocery items sold in Australia carried EAN•UCC numbers and barcodes
1984
- 962 APNA members registered
1979
- Rowntree Hoadley become first APNA's member
- SIMS Supermarkets becomes the first scanning store in Australia
1978
- The Australian Product Numbering Association (APNA) was formed
- Mr Bill Pratt, owner of the Safeway chain of stores in Victoria and representative of the Australian Retailers Association (ARA) was elected Chairman of the Australian Product Numbering Association
- The Grocery Manufacturers of Australia (GMA) guaranteed a loan to provide initial funding for APNA
