Colegio Oficial de Farmacéuticos de la Región de Murcia

What Colegio Oficial de Farmacéuticos de la Región de Murcia does

Colegio Oficial de Farmacéuticos de la Región de Murcia (COFRM) is the statutorily designated Official College of Pharmacists for Spain's Region of Murcia, founded in 1897 and headquartered in Murcia. It functions as a regulatory professional association: membership (colegiación) is a legal prerequisite for practicing pharmacy in the region, granting COFRM a regional monopoly on licensing, professional oversight, and representation of pharmacists before public authorities. The organization is governed by an elected Junta de Gobierno and Junta de Vocalías, operates with approximately 20 direct employees, and holds ISO 9001 quality certification.

COFRM's core technology stack centers on a member-facing digital infrastructure: a private member portal (Área Privada del Colegiado), an electronic administrative headquarters (Sede Electrónica), a Moodle-based learning management system (Campus COFRM) for continuing education, a job board (Bolsa de Trabajo), an aerobiology and pollen-monitoring service, a pharmacy locator for on-duty pharmacies (Farmacias de Guardia), and an online ordering system for member supplies (Pedidos al Colegio). Public-facing services include COVID self-diagnostic and certified testing. The website integrates with Google Analytics, TeamViewer for IT support, Facebook for social engagement, and references a partnership with FarmaciaCloud for pharmacy management tooling. No AI/ML capabilities are present.

Revenue is generated primarily through mandatory annual membership fees from licensed pharmacists in Murcia, supplemented by fees for ancillary services such as continuing-education courses, testing services, supply orders, and specialty offerings. Pricing is not publicly disclosed. Distribution to members is conducted via the Murcia headquarters, the online member portal, and the regional network of member pharmacies; distribution to the public is via the Farmacias de Guardia network and public-health campaigns such as "Protege tu piel" (skin cancer prevention). Recent strategic activity is concentrated in community-facing partnerships (Guardia Civil, Academia de Farmacia) and incremental product launches (COVID testing, research initiatives like Escabimap), rather than in geographic or structural expansion.

Name

Colegio Oficial de Farmacéuticos de la Región de Murcia

Legal name

Colegio Oficial de Farmacéuticos de la Región de Murcia

Website

https://nuevaweb.cofrm.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1897

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

COFRM is the statutorily mandated Official College of Pharmacists for Spain's Region of Murcia, founded in 1897. It regulates and represents licensed regional pharmacists, providing licensing, continuing education, job placement, and ancillary digital and public-health services to its mandatory membership.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Professional Pharmacy Association Services

NAICS

Medical Laboratories (621511)

SIC

Services-Medical Laboratories (8071)

akta.pro primary industry

Controlled Substances & Pharmacy Regulation Authorities (HLAJACAI)

akta.pro secondary industry

Third-Party, Vendor & Supply Chain Compliance (EDABADAJ)

Keywords

• Pharmacy professional association
• Pharmacist licensing services
• Continuing pharmacy education
• Pharmacy job placement
• Regulatory pharmacy body

Headquarters

HQ city

Murcia

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Membership Fees (Colegiación): Professional pharmacists in the Murcia region must be registered members (colegiados) of COFRM to practice legally. Annual membership fees fund the organization's operations and services.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

COFRM is the official professional college (Colegio Oficial) for pharmacists in the Region of Murcia, Spain. It regulates pharmacist licensing and registration, provides continuing education through its Campus COFRM learning platform, operates a job placement service (Bolsa de Trabajo), monitors pollen and air quality (Aerobiología), runs COVID testing services, and represents pharmacists before regulatory bodies. Founded in 1897, it holds statutory authority over pharmaceutical practice in the Murcia region.

Product overview

Colegio Oficial de Farmacéuticos de la Región de Murcia (COFRM) operates as a professional pharmacy association offering a unified platform of member services. The core offering is the private member portal (Área Privada del Colegiado) providing access to professional resources, complemented by specialized modules including COVID testing services, aerobiology monitoring, job placement services, e-learning through Campus COFRM, pharmacy locator tools, electronic administrative services via Sede Electrónica, and supply ordering systems. The organization has served pharmacists in the Murcia region since 1897, providing both regulatory and practical professional support services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Área Privada del Colegiado (Member Portal)

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Academia de FarmaciacoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 June 2026The Academy of Pharmacy and COFRM jointly celebrated the closing ceremony of the 2025/2026 academic course. This partnership supports continuing education and professional development for pharmacists through academic collaboration and joint events.
• Guardia CivilcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 May 2026COFRM and the Guardia Civil (Civil Guard) have renewed their collaboration procedure to improve the wellbeing and safety of elderly citizens. The partnership focuses on protecting senior citizens through pharmaceutical care and community safety initiatives coordinated between pharmacists and law enforcement.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Others

• Farmacloud (Software & Services): A pharmacy management software vendor integrated into COFRM's website. Comparable as an enabling technology partner supplying digital infrastructure to regional Spanish pharmacies, intersecting with COFRM's member-services stack.
• Academia de Farmacia de la Región de Murcia: Murcia's regional academy of pharmacy, a strategic partner of COFRM for academic collaboration and joint course-closing ceremonies. Comparable as a regional pharmacist-knowledge institution with overlapping educational and professional-development scope.

Broad incumbents

• Consejo General de Enfermería de España: National umbrella body for Spain's regional nursing colleges. Comparable as the structural parallel to the pharmacists' colegio system: same statutory licensing framework, regional college model, and member-services profile applied to a different healthcare profession.
• Consejo General de Colegios Oficiales de Farmacéuticos de España: The national umbrella body coordinating all Spanish regional pharmaceutical colleges (including COFRM). It is comparable as the apex regulator/representative in the same pharmacist-licensing ecosystem, though operating at national scope rather than a single autonomous community.

Direct peers

• Colegio Oficial de Farmacéuticos de Aragón: Aragonese regional pharmaceutical college, operating the same kind of licensing, training, and member-services functions for pharmacists as COFRM does in Murcia.
• Colegio Oficial de Farmacéuticos de la Comunitat Valenciana: Valencia-region pharmaceutical college. Closely comparable to COFRM in governance structure, member-services portfolio, and Mediterranean/Spanish regional footprint.
• Colegio Oficial de Farmacéuticos de Barcelona: Catalonia's official pharmaceutical college, performing the same statutory licensing, continuing-education, and member-services functions for Barcelona-based pharmacists. Closest structural peer to COFRM in terms of operating model and offering mix.
• Colegio Oficial de Farmacéuticos de Madrid: The official regional pharmaceutical college serving pharmacists in the Community of Madrid. Directly comparable in mandate, structure, and service portfolio (membership, training, job board, public-health initiatives) to COFRM, just at much larger scale.
• Colegio Oficial de Farmacéuticos de Galicia: Galician regional pharmaceutical college with the same statutory pharmacist-licensing mandate and member-services infrastructure as COFRM.
• Colegio Oficial de Farmacéuticos de la Región de Andalucía: Andalusian regional pharmaceutical college; comparable to COFRM in that it is one of the largest Spanish regional colegios with a parallel statutory mandate and similar member-services platform.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/cofrm
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/cofrm
• Facebookfacebook.com/cofrm
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cofmurcia

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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Investments

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