Universal Product Code (UPC)

Standard bar code used to identify grocery and other retail merchandise. In the UPC system, the five digits on the left are assigned to a particular manufacturer or maker and the five digits on the right are used by that manufacturer to identify a specific type or make of product.

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Companies

• UPC Broadband, a European provider of cable television, telephone and broadband content owned by Liberty Global
• UPC, United States plastic model kit producer

Technology

• Universal Product Code
• Unified Parallel C
• Uniform Plumbing Code
• United Pan-Europe Communications
• Uplink Power Control
• Usage Parameter Control (in ATM networks)
• Ultra Physical Contact (referring to end face geometry for fiber optic connectors)
• Ultra Portable Computer (usually UMPC for Ultra Mobile PC)

Institutions

• Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Polytechnic University of Catalonia)
• Universidad Piloto de Colombia (Pilot University of Colombia)
• University Park Campus
• Univerzitné pastoračné centrum
• Uganda People's Congress
• Union des Populations du Cameroun
• Union of Congolese Patriots
• United Presbyterian Church of Scotland
• University Programs Council (at University of Virginia)
• United Poultry Concerns

Religion

• Universal Pentecostal Church an indegenious pentecostal movement which is also one of the biggest pentecostal denominations in the world also known as TPM, CPM, NTC
• United Pentecostal Church International (UPC or UPCI)
• United Presbyterian Church
• University Presbyterian Church, in Seattle, WA

Law

• Uniform Probate Code