Computer Labelling Systems is 15 years old. How did it all start? In 1991 Michael Scicluna set up a company with the name M & E Catering to open a coffee shop in St Paul’s Bay, namely “The Village Café”. This proved very successful and had good clientele of both tourists and local residents from all over Malta.

The setting was plain and simple, clean and not crowded. Most of the food was home made. This is what it was popular for. Perhaps the only catering establishment in all Malta, which did not serve French fries at all, but baked jacket potatoes with all the dishes, and also as a snack with various fillings.

The company went on to cook some home bakes, which proved to be a popular product, and started to pre pack and service other outlets.

Packaging and labelling was required for this venture. It was then that Mr Scicluna took up some ideas that were already used abroad, which were perfect in presenting the products in a professional way. The most important was the label because it gave the information of what the product was all about.

Mr Scicluna first set eyes on a Computer Labelling System by Planglow Ltd at Hotel Olympia in London and wanted to get the system going for his goods.

This proved to be fruitful and profitable. Since the Labelling Act came into force in Malta, Computer Labelling Systems was placed on the market, promoting the labels under the same name.

As this business became more lucrative and less labour intensive than the coffee shop, it was decided to improve on marketing labelling products.

In the years that followed Computer Labelling Systems was established as the leader in the barcode application in retail and manufacturing industry, with labels, label printers, price markers, data collectors, labelling software, and POS hardware.

CLS is also proud to have worked and still works along with some of the most successful IT Service Providers who recommend CLS again and again for product quality and service.

Since 1998, CLS has been entrusted by Traxon Europe to be its On Line Air Cargo agents, handling 98 per cent of Air Cargo reservations via EDI. It also provides Air Cargo agents with the IATA standard stationery.