The company's mission is: "Promote and provide business solutions for data management by offering high value systems, products and services, to mark, capture, compute and communicate information anywhere and anytime, to generate a high ROI for our Customers".

The company started operating on the market in 1972 with a range of photoelectric sensors. Towards the end of the seventies Datalogic realised the huge potential of bar code technology and decided to invest in it, becoming the first manufacturer of bar code readers in Europe.

In more than 30 years, Datalogic has built an unquestioned world-wide leadership in the ADC (Automatic Data Capture) sector, thanks to the high quality of its products, their utmost versatility and careful design. Datalogic offers outstanding business solutions particularly for the manufacturing, transportation and logistics, as well as distribution and retail industries.

Datalogic's product range covers hand-held and fixed-position bar code readers using both laser and CCD technologies. Datalogic's offer also includes one of the widest ranges of mobile computers for data collection available on the market. Furthermore, through its subsidiary Escort Memory Systems (Scotts Valley, California), Datalogic provides RFID solutions for the entire supply chain with a leading position in the automotive sector, electronic manufacturers and warehouse management systems (WMS). Datalogic assigns utmost importance to research activities and invests over 7% of its sales in this area. More than 140 engineers study basic technologies for possible future use within our products.