REGISTRE DU COMMERCE

What REGISTRE DU COMMERCE does

REGISTRE DU COMMERCE is the commercial and corporate registry function of the Tribunal Judiciaire de Colmar, a public judicial institution under the French Ministry of Justice located at Place du Marché aux Fruits, Colmar (Haut-Rhin, Alsace). Its core mandate is the legal registration of businesses and legal entities within the Colmar jurisdiction and the issuance of official K-Bis extracts — the certified proof of registration that French companies require for banking, contracting, and public tender purposes. Beyond K-Bis, the service processes registry modifications, records statutory legal instruments (privileges/nantissements, injunctions de payer), and supports creditors and businesses with registry searches.

Operationally, the registry is lean — staffed by 7 employees — and combines a physical front counter with morning-only public hours (8h–12h) and a digital distribution channel via INFOGREFFE.FR, the national inter-registry platform. The underlying "technology" is largely procedural: index-based registry records, certified extract generation, and standardized legal-form filings; there is no proprietary software stack disclosed. The registry also co-houses the Livre Foncier (land registry) service on the same site following a 2019 consolidation from the previous Rue des Augustins location.

As a government institution, REGISTRE DU COMMERCE does not operate a commercial revenue model in the private-sector sense. It is funded through the French judicial budget and supplemented by statutory fees for K-Bis extracts, filings, and ancillary acts set under national regulation. Its "customers" are therefore not buyers in a market but mandatory users — any business registered in the Colmar jurisdiction and any third party requiring certified proof of that registration. The go-to-market is effectively zero: demand is statutory and captive within the jurisdiction, with no competitive dynamics, pricing strategy, or sales motion.

Name

REGISTRE DU COMMERCE

Legal name

Tribunal Judiciaire des Augustins de Colmar - Registre du Commerce

Website

https://tribunal-instance-colmar.fr.gd

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

The Registre du Commerce et des Sociétés (RCS) at the Tribunal Judiciaire de Colmar is a French public judicial registry that registers businesses within the Colmar jurisdiction and issues official K-Bis extracts and processes statutory legal filings, serving local companies, creditors, and third parties requiring certified proof of registration.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Commercial Registry Services

NAICS

Regulation, Licensing, and Inspection of Miscellaneous Commercial Sectors (92615), Other Legal Services (54119)

SIC

Services-Legal Services (8111)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPAIAOAA

Business Registration & Corporate Affairs (Registries)

Business & Public Services/Public Sector & Government Administration/Regulatory Agencies & Licensing (Cross-sector)

Keywords

• Commercial registry services
• Business registration filings
• K-Bis extract issuance
• Judicial court registry
• Official commercial extracts

Headquarters

HQ city

Colmar

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Core offering

The Registre du Commerce de Colmar is the official French government commercial registry serving the Colmar jurisdiction. It registers businesses, processes modifications of commercial acts, and issues official K-Bis extracts that serve as legal proof of company registration. The service operates as a function of the Tribunal Judiciaire de Colmar under the French Ministry of Justice, with online extract ordering delegated to the national Infogreffe platform.

Product overview

REGISTRE DU COMMERCE is a French government service (Commercial Registry) operated as part of the Tribunal Judiciaire (Judicial Court) of Colmar. It provides official business registration services for companies within its jurisdiction, including K-BIS extract issuance available online through INFOGREFFE.FR. The registry handles modifications of commercial acts and maintains the official record of businesses. As a standalone government registry service, it does not operate as a software platform with modules.

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Products and services

• Registre du Commerce (Commercial Register) - Filings & Modifications Official registration of businesses and processing of modifications of commercial acts for companies in the Colmar jurisdiction. Used by legal representatives of companies, associations, and cooperatives required to maintain their registered information with the French commercial registry.
• Extrait K-BIS (K-Bis Extract) Official extract document certifying a company's registration and current legal status at the Registre du Commerce. Available online via www.infogreffe.fr under partnership with the Tribunal Judiciaire de Colmar. Used by businesses and third parties (banks, public bodies, counterparties) requiring legally valid proof of company registration.
• Privilèges et Nantissements (Security Interests Service) Government service for the registration and processing of privileges and security interests (nantissements) against commercial debtors. Open 08h00-12h00 Monday to Friday. Used by creditors and legal professionals handling secured commercial claims.
• Injonctions de Payer (Payment Injunctions) Processing of payment injunctions (injonctions de payer) at the commercial registry. Used by creditors seeking formal payment orders against commercial debtors through the registry's dedicated email channel ([email protected]).

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• InfogreffecoreTechnology or IntegrationInfogreffe is the official partner platform referenced for obtaining K-Bis extracts online. The service enables businesses to request and receive official commercial registry extracts electronically through www.infogreffe.fr. This digital integration allows for remote access to commerce registry documents.

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights1 record

Direct peers

• Infogreffe: Infogreffe is the official national platform through which French Registre du Commerce services (including Colmar's) issue K-Bis extracts online. It is the digital front door for the same commercial registry function this entity performs in person, making it the closest operational peer.
• Greffe du Tribunal de Commerce de Lyon: Lyon greffe performs the same Trade Register and K-Bis services for its jurisdiction. It is a directly comparable regional registry peer with identical mandate and service mix.
• Greffe du Tribunal de Commerce de Paris: The Paris registry is the largest French Registre du Commerce operation, performing the identical K-Bis issuance, modification filing, and commercial register maintenance function for the Paris jurisdiction. It is the scale benchmark for what Colmar's registry does.

Emerging players

• Pappers: Pappers is a French company-information platform that derives its dataset from public registries including the Registre du Commerce. It overlaps with the registry in serving users who need official corporate information but does so through a modern digital interface.
• Verif.com: Verif.com is a French business information provider that consolidates registry data with other sources for due-diligence and corporate intelligence use cases, overlapping with the information role of the Registre du Commerce for end users.
• Société.com: Société.com is a private French commercial data platform that aggregates and repackages Registre du Commerce data into searchable business profiles. It sits in the same information flow as the Colmar registry but monetizes it through a private SaaS/data model.
• Manageo: Manageo provides French corporate and financial information derived from registry filings, serving similar business-information needs to those addressed by the Registre du Commerce but through a private data-services model.

Broad incumbents

• Companies House (UK): Companies House is the UK government registrar of companies, performing the equivalent business registration, filing, and public extract function for the United Kingdom. It is the most internationally comparable public-sector peer in the commercial registry space.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

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