The British Retail Consortium (BRC)

The British Retail Consortium (or BRC)is a trade association for retail businesses in the United Kingdom.

History

The British Retail Consortium was formed in January 1992 with the merger of the British Retailers' Association and the Retail Consortium. In 1998 it produced the first edition of the BRC Food Technical Standard and Protocol for food suppliers. This has been widely adopted not just throughout the UK but around the world.

BRC went on to produce other global standards, which became a separate brand that were sold to the LGC Group in 2016.