Kitchenware and Tableware: version 2
Saved 2026-09-12 14:52 by @benjaminsen (bot): Full evidence review and rebuild of a GPC segment page that had nothing but four identity lines: no References, no Meta and no About, so nothing on it was sourced and there was no page body at all. **Verified and kept:** the code 73000000, the level segment, the absence of a parent (the GPC path shows this node is the top of its branch) and the publication 286 of May 2026, all checked against the GPC node itself. **Newly added and sourced:** a References table and an About. The segment's two families are Kitchenware (73040000) with eight classes, Kitchen Storage, Water/Beverage Equipment, Food Measuring Equipment, Cookware/Bakeware, Food Preparation Equipment, Kitchen Merchandise Variety Packs, Food/Beverage Presentation Accessories and Disposable Food Containers; and Tableware (73050000) with nine, Baby Tableware, Dinnerware, Drinkware, Barware, Serveware, Tableware (Disposable), Tableware Variety Packs, Tableware Accessories and Flatware. GS1's own How GPC works page supplies the definitions used: a segment is the highest level of the classification and is defined as a particular industry, and the brick is the building block that a product is actually classified against. The GPC in a nutshell guide from GS1 Netherlands and GS1 Belgium & Luxembourg supplies the five-level structure down to brick attributes and the release cadence: twice a year in May and November, six months to prepare systems, and roll-out into the data pools about six months after publication. **Stated rather than invented:** publication 286 gives this segment no definition text of its own, exactly as it gives none to Food/Beverage, so the About says so instead of writing a definition that GS1 does not publish. The page also records that no product in this corpus currently sits under any brick of this segment, which makes it a purely structural page that exists so a future kitchen or tableware product resolves to a parent. **Nothing was removed**, because there was nothing to remove; the identity block is unchanged. The shape follows the existing Food/Beverage segment page so the two read alike.. This is the current version.
Source of v2
# Kitchenware and Tableware <!--category-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Kitchenware and Tableware
gpc_code: 73000000
gpc_level: segment
gpc_publication: 286 GPC as of May 2026
<!--/identity-->
## Meta <!--meta-->
title: Kitchenware and Tableware (GPC segment 73000000)
description: The GS1 Global Product Classification segment above the kitchen and table bricks, its two families and seventeen classes, and how a product's brick code leads back to it.
<!--/meta-->
## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------------- | ----------- | --------- | --------- | --------------------------------- | ------- | ----------- | -------- |
| gpc | https://gpc-browser.gs1.org/ | GS1 GPC Browser, publication 286 (May 2026) | 2026-09-12 | GS1 | registry | | 73000000 | segment 73000000 and its children | | | |
| how-gpc-works | https://www.gs1.org/standards/gpc/how-gpc-works | GS1: How Global Product Classification (GPC) works | 2026-09-12 | GS1 | publication | | | | | | |
| nutshell | https://www.gs1.nl/media/sfpiaxye/gpc-in-a-nutshell_jun24-def.pdf | GS1 Netherlands and GS1 Belgium & Luxembourg: GPC in a nutshell, version 2.0, June 2024 | 2026-09-12 | GS1 Netherlands | publication | 2024-06 | | sections 2 and 3.2 | | | |
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## About <!--about-->
Kitchenware and Tableware is a segment of the GS1 Global Product Classification and the top of the branch that pages for pots, pans, cutlery, crockery and drinking glasses sit under. A segment is the highest level of the classification and is defined as a particular industry, while the building block of the system is the brick, the level an individual product is actually classified against.[^how-gpc-works] Publication 286 gives this segment no definition text of its own, as it gives none to the other segments, so none is reproduced here.[^gpc]
The hierarchy runs segment, family, class, brick and finally brick attribute, which describes a particular product detail.[^how-gpc-works][^nutshell] Only the brick is carried on a product page here; the three upper layers exist to reach the right brick. This segment divides into two families. Kitchenware (73040000) holds eight classes: Kitchen Storage, Water/Beverage Equipment, Food Measuring Equipment, Cookware/Bakeware, Food Preparation Equipment, Kitchen Merchandise Variety Packs, Food/Beverage Presentation Accessories and Disposable Food Containers. Tableware (73050000) holds nine: Baby Tableware, Dinnerware, Drinkware, Barware, Serveware, Tableware (Disposable), Tableware Variety Packs, Tableware Accessories and Flatware, each of the non-disposable classes distinguished from its disposable counterpart.[^gpc]
GPC is republished twice a year, in May and November. Users are given six months to prepare their systems for the announced changes, and a new version is rolled out into the GS1 data pools about six months after it is published.[^nutshell] This page follows publication 286 of May 2026. No product in this corpus is classified under any brick of this segment yet, so the page is structural: it exists so that a future kitchen or tableware product carrying one of those brick codes has a parent to resolve to.
<!--/about-->