What Textil+mode does

Textil+mode, formally the Gesamtverband der deutschen Textil- und Modeindustrie e.V., is the legally recognized umbrella confederation of the German textile and fashion industry. Founded in 1950 and headquartered in Berlin with a permanent office in Brussels, it coordinates 10 regional and 13 trade associations that together represent roughly 1,400 enterprises, 124,000 employees, and approximately €28 billion in annual turnover. Its mandate spans collective-bargaining negotiation, trade-policy advocacy at federal and EU level, sustainability and circular-economy positioning, and skills-pipeline development through campaigns such as Go Textile!.

The association operates a research-coordination platform — the FKT network — that links 16 specialized textile research institutes and around 1,200 researchers, and it partners internationally through the CORNET collective. It also runs the federally funded Mittelstand-Digital Zentrum Smarte Kreisläufe, which delivers digitalization and circular-economy advisory services to member SMEs, and publishes long-horizon industry strategy through initiatives such as Perspectives 2035, produced jointly with the iit Institut für Innovation und Technik. A wholly owned subsidiary, t+m CSR Consulting GmbH, monetizes sustainability and compliance advisory work for member companies.

The business model is that of a German registered association (eingetragener Verein). Revenue is sourced from membership dues paid by the 23 sub-associations, supplemented by public-project funding (e.g., Mittelstand-Digital, CORNET) and fee income from the CSR consulting subsidiary. There is no venture funding, no equity capitalization, and no conventional product revenue — Textil+mode is a member-funded industry infrastructure body, not a commercial enterprise.

Name

Textil+mode

Legal name

Gesamtverband der deutschen Textil- und Modeindustrie e.V.

Website

https://textil-mode.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1950

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Textil+mode is the German textile and fashion industry's umbrella confederation, headquartered in Berlin with a Brussels office, coordinating 23 regional and trade associations representing roughly 1,400 firms, 124,000 employees, and €28 billion in annual turnover across advocacy, research, and training.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Berlin

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Membership Dues: As a trade association, textil+mode is funded through membership fees from its 10 regional state associations and 13 trade associations representing the textile, fashion, and footwear industries.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Textil+mode is the umbrella trade confederation for the German textile and fashion industry, representing approximately 1,400 enterprises and 124,000 employees. It represents member interests through political lobbying, tariff policy coordination, and collective bargaining, while coordinating pre-competitive textile research through the Forschungskuratorium Textil (FKT) network of 16 research institutes. It also provides CSR consulting through its subsidiary t+m CSR Consulting GmbH and supports SME digitalization through the Mittelstand-Digital Zentrum Smarte Kreisläufe.

Product overview

Textil+mode (Gesamtverband der deutschen Textil- und Modeindustrie) is a trade association representing the German textile and fashion industry, not a product company. Its core offerings include research coordination through the Forschungskuratorium Textil (FKT) network of 16 research institutes, CSR consulting via t+m CSR Consulting GmbH, digital transformation support through the Mittelstand-Digital Zentrum Smarte Kreisläufe, a research project database (TEFO), the Go Textile! vocational training campaign, the Textil vernetzt competence center, and regular publications including economic reports and position papers. These services serve member associations and companies rather than providing commercial software products.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Forschungskuratorium Textil (FKT)

Quantifiable outcome

• Germany is the world's largest producer and exporter of technical textiles
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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No

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Feature4 records

Partnerships

15 partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and minor.

• Forschungskuratorium Textil (FKT)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Forschungskuratorium Textil e.V. is the textile research council coordinated by textil+mode. FKT coordinates a network of 16 textile research institutes with about 1,200 researchers. It manages collective research projects under the IGF scheme and has 14 full and 3 extraordinary member organizations.
• Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi/BMWK)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBMWi/BMWK provides funding for pre-competitive collective research through IGF (Industrielle Gemeinschaftsforschung). About 169 million euros allocated annually for SME research funding, with 18 million euros specifically for textile IGF research in 2019.
• AiF - Arbeitsgemeinschaft industrieller Forschungsvereinigungen (Otto von Guericke)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAiF is the consortium of industrial research associations that, together with industry, science and government partners, promotes pre-competitive collective research. Provides administrative support for IGF funding programs.
• CORNET (COllective Research NETworking)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational network of ministries and funding agencies combining funding schemes to increase SME competitiveness. Supports pre-competitive Collective Research with high success rates and short time to contract. CORNET coordination is financially supported by BMWi.
• Federal Agency for Employment (Bundesagentur für Arbeit)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for the 'Making provisions for the shortage of specialists – recruiting specialists in the EU' project, implemented through the EURES network to address skilled worker shortage in the textile industry.
• EURES NetworkminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEuropean employment exchange network operated by EU member states and European Economic Area countries. Partner for international skilled worker recruitment for German textile industry.
• BDI - Bundesverband der Deutschen IndustriemajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFederation of German Industries - main Dachverband (umbrella association) that textil+mode works with for national political discussions and legislative processes.
• BDA - Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen ArbeitgeberverbändemajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerConfederation of German Employers' Associations - Dachverband that textil+mode cooperates with on labor and social policy matters.
• EURATEX - European Apparel and Textile ConfederationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEuropean apparel and textile confederation representing the industry at EU level. textil+mode cooperates with EURATEX through its Brussels office for European affairs.
• iit - Berlin Institute for Innovation and TechnologymajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in the Perspectives 2035 study conducted with FKT. iit conducted database analysis using Scopus publications and developed the Visual Roadmapping methodology for workshops.
• 16 Textile Research InstitutescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNetwork of 16 German textile research institutes including DITF, ITA, ITM, STFI, TITK, DWI, and others. Institutes conduct application-oriented research and participate in collective research projects. Located in Baden-Wuerttemberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saxony, and Thuringia.
• Niederrhein UniversityminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in the Perspectives 2035 project, organized student competition 'Entrepreneur of the Future' where students developed business models for textile enterprises in 2035.
• t+m CSR Consulting GmbHmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSubsidiary company providing CSR consulting services to member companies. Close ties to political decision-makers and regulatory developments through the confederation connection.
• Handelsverband Deutschland (HDE)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerGerman Retail Federation. textil+mode and HDE jointly published the Code of Conduct for responsible business practices in the German textile and fashion industry.
• Mittelstand-Digital Zentrum Smarte KreisläufemajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSME Digital Center for Smart Cycles. textil+mode manages this center supporting small and medium-sized enterprises in digitalization topics over three years.

Scale indicators13 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• EURATEX: European Apparel and Textile Confederation — the EU-level counterpart of textil+mode, representing the broader European textile and apparel industry in Brussels. Textil+mode is a member and cooperates with EURATEX through its Brussels office, making it a structurally comparable peer with a slightly different geographic scope.
• UK Fashion & Textile Association (UKFT): Trade association for the UK fashion and textile industry, providing representation, skills, and supply chain services. Comparable to textil+mode in mission — representing fashion and textile manufacturers and providing trade-policy advocacy in a major European market.
• National Council of Textile Organizations (NCTO): U.S. national trade association representing the full spectrum of the U.S. textile industry, from fibers to finished products. Functionally analogous to textil+mode in providing industry representation, policy advocacy, and supply chain data for member companies in a different geography.
• Union des Industries Textiles (UIT): French national textile industry association, providing trade association services, advocacy, and industry data to French textile manufacturers. Closely comparable to textil+mode in mission and member-service model, operating in another major European textile economy.
• International Textile Manufacturers Federation (ITMF): International federation of textile manufacturers providing global industry statistics, surveys, and policy forums. Functionally comparable to textil+mode in representing textile manufacturer interests, but at a global level rather than a single national market.
• Sistema Moda Italia: Italian textile and fashion industry confederation representing the Made-in-Italy fashion and textile value chain. Directly comparable in role — sector-specific trade association with advocacy, collective bargaining, and industry-data functions serving Italian textile/fashion enterprises.

Regional players

• MODINT: Dutch trade association for the fashion, interior, and textile industry. Comparable in mission — representing textile/fashion manufacturers and providing industry advocacy and services — but serving the Dutch market rather than Germany.
• Fedustria: Belgian federation for the textile, wood, and furniture industries — a smaller national textile industry association. Operates in an adjacent market with a comparable membership-based industry-advocacy model but serves a different (Belgian) market than textil+mode's German focus.

Broad incumbents

• BDI - Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie: Federation of German Industries — the overarching German industry confederation of which textil+mode is a member. Operates in the same national advocacy and political representation space but at a much broader industrial scope, making it a structural peer rather than direct competitor.
• BDA - Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbände: Confederation of German Employers' Associations — the umbrella organization for German employer associations, of which textil+mode's employer association function is a sub-member. Comparable in social-policy and labor-law advocacy role but serving all German industries.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/textilmode
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/gesamtverband-der-deutschen-textil--und-modeindustrie-e.v.

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Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

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