What COFREET does

COFREET (Comité Français de l'Étiquetage pour l'Entretien des Textiles) is a French non-profit association founded in 1964 under the loi 1901 framework, headquartered in Clichy, France. It is the mandated French representative of GINETEX (Groupement International d'Étiquetage pour l'Entretien des Textiles) and administers the international textile care labeling system in France — five universal symbols covering washing, bleaching, drying, ironing, and professional cleaning, codified as ISO 3758 / EN ISO 3758. The organization serves over 920 member companies across the textile, ready-to-wear, and home linen sectors, including legacy brands (Chantelle, Damart, Phildar, 1083, Father & Sons), SMBs (Les Poulettes Fitness, Juste, Elora), and startups (Rainjoy, ALLMEMBERZ).

COFREET's core product surface consists of three pillars: (1) the LaverMonLinge.com consumer information platform covering washing, stain removal, and material-specific care guidance; (2) the MON ÉTIQUETTE mobile application on iOS and Android, which decodes care symbols and provides treatment advice; and (3) the Clevercare.info initiative, an eco-responsible textile care awareness campaign aligned with the UN Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action. Through its biennial barometer studies with IPSOS (since 2016), COFREET maintains proprietary longitudinal consumer research on French and European textile care behavior. The organization distributes messaging into physical retail through a partnership with AFL (Association Française des Laveries), placing care instruction posters in approximately 5,000 launderettes across France.

The business model is membership-funded: companies in the textile and fashion sectors join COFREET annually to access care labeling standards, certification tools, and the right to use the GINETEX symbols on their product labels. COFREET operates with a small team of 9 employees, led by President Yann Balguerie and Secretary General Pascale Florant. Revenue mechanics are anchored on recurring annual dues from the 920+ member base, with no disclosed pricing for memberships. The organization is not venture-backed, has no equity ownership, and is governed collectively by its members as a non-profit association. Geographic focus is France-centric, although the underlying GINETEX symbol system and the Clevercare.info initiative have global reach through the international GINETEX network.

Name

COFREET

Legal name

COFREET

Website

https://lavermonlinge.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1964

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

COFREET is a French non-profit association founded in 1964 and the mandated French representative of GINETEX, administering the ISO 3758 international textile care labeling system for 920+ member companies across textile, ready-to-wear, and home linen sectors via membership dues, consumer education website, and mobile app.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Textile Care Standards Association

NAICS

Textile and Fabric Finishing and Fabric Coating Mills (3133), Broadwoven Fabric Mills (313210)

SIC

Apparel & Other Finishd Prods Of Fabrics & Similar Matl (2300), Textile Mill Products (2200)

akta.pro primary industry

Labels, Tags & Branding Trims (Woven/Printed Labels/Hangtags/Patches/Heat Transfers) (IMAOALAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

Denim & Twill Fabrics (CRAAAMAE)

Keywords

• Textile care labeling
• ISO 3758 standards
• Garment care symbols
• Textile industry association
• Eco-responsible garment care

Headquarters

HQ city

Clichy

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Membership Fees: COFREET is a loi 1901 association funded primarily through annual membership dues from its 920+ member companies in the textile, ready-to-wear, and home linens sectors. Membership fees support the organization's mission to promote care labeling standards in France.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels10 records

Core offering

COFREET is the French non-profit association mandated by GINETEX to promote and administer the five-symbol international textile care labeling system (ISO 3758) in France. It serves 920+ member companies in the textile, ready-to-wear, and home linen sectors with care labeling standards, certification of GINETEX symbol usage, consumer education through the LaverMonLinge.com platform and MON ÉTIQUETTE mobile app, and proprietary COFREET-IPSOS consumer research on textile care behavior.

Product overview

COFREET operates a textile care information ecosystem consisting of the MON ÉTIQUETTE mobile application for decoding care symbols via smartphone, the Clevercare.info initiative promoting eco-responsible textile maintenance practices, and a comprehensive information website covering all aspects of textile care including washing, drying, ironing, professional cleaning, and material-specific guidance.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Clevercare.info: An initiative promoted by COFREET and GINETEX to raise awareness among consumers about eco-responsible textile care practices.

Products and services

• MON ÉTIQUETTE Mobile Application

Named customers12 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered flagship and core.

• United Nations / Fashion Industry Charter for Climate ActionflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2021COFREET signed the UN Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action, committing the organization and its member companies to climate action goals. The charter specifically recognizes that textile care represents ~40% of a garment's lifecycle environmental impact, and calls for industry-wide action to reduce this through proper care labeling.
• IPSOScoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2018COFREET partners with IPSOS to conduct its biennial barometer study 'L'étiquette d'entretien textile et les Français' (textile care label and the French), providing proprietary consumer research data. The partnership has produced at least three editions (2016, 2018, 2019 data published 2019).
• AFL (Association Française des Laveries)coreGTM or Marketing Partner · 1 January 2018COFREET and AFL collaborate on a communication campaign targeting launderette customers in France. The campaign (first launched 2018, renewed March 2024) places COFREET-designed care instruction posters in AFL member launderies (500 members representing ~5,000 launderies). The QR code on posters drives users to the MON ÉTIQUETTE app.
• GINETEXcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 1964COFREET is the French mandated representative of GINETEX (Groupement International d'Étiquetage pour l'Entretien des Textiles). GINETEX co-owns the five international textile care symbols with ISO 3758 standard, and COFREET administers and promotes them in France. The partnership has been in place since COFREET's founding in 1964.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• GINETEX: The international body that co-owns the ISO 3758 textile care labeling symbols and whose French national representative COFREET has been since 1964. Operates the global framework COFREET implements locally in France.
• Euratex (European Apparel and Textile Confederation): European-level industry association representing the European textile and apparel industry. Comparable as a sectoral trade body promoting industry interests, sustainability, and standards alignment across the same member companies COFREET serves in France.

Broad incumbents

• CEN (European Committee for Standardization): EU-wide standards body that adopts EN ISO 3758 (the care labeling standard COFREET promotes). Operates at a broader level than COFREET but is structurally comparable as a standards-setting organization whose work directly shapes textile labeling compliance.
• ISO (International Organization for Standardization): The global standards body that published ISO 3758, the care symbol standard COFREET administers nationally. COFREET is a downstream national implementer of the standard ISO owns.
• ASTM International: Global standards organization with textile care and labeling specifications (e.g., ASTM D5489). Operates at vastly greater scale and scope but is functionally comparable as a non-profit that develops and disseminates technical standards used across the textile value chain.
• AFNOR (Association Française de Normalisation): France's national standards body covering all industries including textiles. COFREET operates within AFNOR's broader standardization ecosystem, particularly around the EN ISO 3758 standard, making AFNOR a peer in the standards arena even though its scope is much wider.

Regional players

• BSI Group (British Standards Institution): UK national standards body comparable to AFNOR in France. While not specifically focused on textiles, BSI publishes related care and textile standards and represents the type of organization whose national remit mirrors COFREET's standards mandate, though in a different geography.
• DIN (Deutsches Institut für Normung): Germany's national standards body. Comparable as a national non-profit standards organization in another major European textile market, though with a much broader scope than COFREET's textile-care focus.

Others

• AFL (Association Française des Laveries): Trade association for French launderettes and a key channel partner of COFREET since 2018. Represents ~500 member launderies covering ~5,000 launderies nationwide and hosts the COFREET care-symbol campaign posters and QR codes.
• UN Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action: UN-convened charter of fashion industry signatories committed to climate action. COFREET is a signatory and uses the charter to anchor its sustainability narrative around care's 40% lifecycle impact. Thematically aligned rather than directly competitive.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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