Digital Product Passports have entered into force in the EU today (18 July 2024). If you are a fashion, textile or footwear brand, you must comply.

Do you supply Tesco?

On the 50th anniversary of the first barcode scan, over 20 industry champions, including marketplaces such as Alibaba, retailers like Carrefour and brand owners like Procter & Gamble, are calling for the global adoption of QR Codes with GS1 standards.

As you can see, we’ve made some large updates to the platform.

We have updated the entire platform as the new Digital Product Passport is coming soon (passing law in April 2024), along with the move towards 2D barcodes by GS1..

With the EU set to approve Digital Product Passports (DPP) in March 2024, it’s time for fashion manufacturers, brands, along with textiles and footwear companies to get started on their journey to compliance.

Announcing the 500 club. We are going to showcase a different brand from the 500 club each week on Linkedin.

Buyerdock is now an approved partner on Amazon’s Service Provider Network (SPN)

Europen, the packaging industry body, estimates it costs between €1,000 and €2,000 per product for separate artwork to be designed in each country.

Over the next couple of years all consumer products will require a digital product passport (textiles are next), not just in the EU but rolling out across the world.

The barcode is so integral to daily life that it is scanned ten billion times a day, more times than Google’s search engine is used…

As the first company to be approved by GS1 in the UK to deliver 2D barcodes (now called QR codes powered by GS1), we’ve made great strides towards making our QR codes the most Intelligent on the planet. 2D or not 2D is another question, we liken them to i-QR codes (Intelligent QR codes).