ARMENIAN PRODUCERS APPLY CODES ON GOODS

ArmenPress
May 25 2004

YEREVAN, MAY 25, ARMENPRESS: According to the chairman of Armenian
goods coding IEN Armenia Pap Aslanian, 9 percent increase is reported
in companies using goods codes as compared to 2003. If only 95
companies received “485” linear codes in 2001, today their number
totals 250 (mainly food, alcohol and non-alcohol drinks, medicine
production) with 5000 coded goods names.

To make coding more affordable for small scale companies, IEN Armenia
has applied new payment rates which is calculated according to number
of employees. This initiation has increased the number of small scale
companies asking for codes.

In Yerevan the number of shops using code reading machines has
increased. Twenty more shops use such machines now.