European Article Number. A superset of the Universal Product Code that includes the base UPC code and two or three additional characters that indicate the country that issued the number (not necessarily the country of origin for that product).
European article numbering; now also called IAN (international article numbering). International standard bar code for retail food packages corresponding to the universal product code (UPC) in the United States. UPC is a subset of EAN, and a reader equipped to read EAN can also read UPC. A reader equipped to read UPC may not decode EAN. The EAN and UPC symbols were developed by IBM and introduced into the market in 1971. The U.S. adopted UPC in 1973; EAN was adopted in 1976.
European Article Number. A system for the identification of products, services utilities, transport units and locations. The information is represented in standard bar-codes.
European Article Numbering. An international standard of product identification used in the grocery and retail areas of business
European Article Numbering. The European version of the UPC (see definition) system used at retail in the U.S. and Canada to identify products so that they can be handled by electronic scanning.
EAN (or "European Article Numbering") is sometimes used instead of UPC. It is a 13-digit unique code for products.
The international bar code standard that is used in the retail market place. In the united States and Canada, the UPC code is the accepted standard.
International Article Numbering Association This association directs the management of unique manufacturer identification codes internationally, excluding the United States and Canada. Each EAN numbering organization, usually one for each country, assigns identification numbers.
The standard used for bar coding throughout Europe, Asia, and South America. EAN International is the administering organization.
European Article Number. The international standard for coding retail goods.
European Article Numbering. The bar code standard used throughout Europe, Asia and South America. It is administered by EAN International.
European article number. Coding to support Efficient Consumer Response (ECR) speeding up goods flow and reducing costs in the FMCG sector.
European Article Number. The primary product identifier used throughout the world outside North America on commercially available products and services. It is encoded on products including books in the EAN bar code and is 13 digits long.
International system that assigns numbers to uniquely identify any specified product, container or transaction in the world. EAN manages the assignment of numbers outside of the United States and Canada. (Similar to UPC numbers)
Effective Atomic Number rule.
Abbreviation of EAN International the former name of GS1
European Authority Number (Vide Electronic Commerce)
european article number. A European, 13-digit bar code that identifies products and shipping containers, which is compatible with U.S. and Canadian UPCs, although there are differences in format.
International Article Numbering System (formerly the European Article Numbering System)
EAN is a voluntary, non-profit standards development association active in numbering, bar coding, and EDI messages for products, services, utilities, and transport units and locations. The EAN system is fully compatible with the Universal Product Code (UPC).
European Article Numbering (EAN) is the European equivalent of a UPS number.
European Article Number. the European equivalent to our UPC here in the U.S. The EAN is a standard bar code symbology used to label products. It is numeric only and is of fixed length (there are a couple of different lengths, depending upon use). Check digits are used in EAN decoding.
European article numbering. A code (EAN-product code) for the identification of supermarket products and similar ones. Note: This code has been developed by the European Article Number Association (EANA) in Brussels which work on behalf of the National EAN Associations from the member countries.
European Article Number. the international standard bar code developed by IBM for retail food packages corresponding to the Universal Product Code (U.P.C.) in the United States. Also called International Article Number (IAN).
European Article Numbering System. The international standard bar code for retail food packages.
Originally European Article Number and now used to denote International Article Number and the International Article Numbering Association.
International Article Numbering (European Article Numbering), a superset of U.P.C., used primarily in retail food or merchandise sales.
The standard barcode symbology for retail food packages in Europe.
European (controls UPCs in Europe)
A 13-digit catalog number for a CD which is written into the CD table of contents.
