SOGEAG-SOGETEX

What SOGEAG-SOGETEX does

SOGEAG-SOGETEX is a family-owned textile collection and recycling company domiciled in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland, organized as a Société à Responsabilité Limitée (SARL) under Swiss law and founded in 1998. The company operates a network of 150 collection boxes distributed across the Geneva canton, into which citizens deposit used clothing, shoes, bags, jewelry, leather goods, home linens, and sports articles. SOGEAG-SOGETEX runs daily collection routes and provides regular box maintenance, working in close coordination with local cantonal and municipal authorities that facilitate placement on public ground.

The company's commercial offering is the "Original CH" product line: unsorted collected textiles sourced from its Geneva boxes and supplemented with surplus inventory from retail stores. Before release, SOGEAG-SOGETEX removes 12–17% of incoming volume as waste (trash, broken toys, books, plastics, pillows, padded covers, carpets) to deliver market-quality material to downstream partners. The underlying operation is logistical and physical — collection, hauling, waste stripping, bale preparation — rather than technology-mediated; no AI, software platform, or proprietary digital systems are part of the stack.

SOGEAG-SOGETEX monetizes by selling prepared textile volumes to downstream buyers; pricing is not publicly disclosed and revenue is not reported. The company has no external funding, no institutional investors, and no disclosed subsidiaries or M&A activity. Customer engagement is split across three constituencies: local authorities (regulatory and box-placement partners), retail stores (surplus suppliers), and the general public (donors at the box network). Brand presence is limited to a Facebook page and an Instagram account (@sogeag_sogetex), with no paid digital marketing, e-commerce channel, or public career page identified.

Name

SOGEAG-SOGETEX

Legal name

Sogeag Sogetex SARL

Website

https://sogeag-sogetex.ch

Company type

Private

Founded year

1998

Operating status

Operating

Short description

SOGEAG-SOGETEX is a family-owned Geneva-based textile recycling company operating 150 collection boxes across the canton since 1998, stripping 12–17% waste and selling prepared used textiles through its Original CH line.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Geneva

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Textile Collection and Recycling Services: Collects used textiles (clothing, shoes, leather goods) through a network of 150 collection boxes in Geneva. Revenue generated through sale of collected and sorted textiles via the 'Original CH' product line, which includes unsorted collected textiles and surplus from retail stores.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

SOGEAG-SOGETEX (Sogeag Sogetex SARL) operates a network of 150 textile collection boxes across the canton of Geneva, Switzerland, collecting used clothing, shoes, leather goods, bags, jewelry, home linens, and sports articles from individuals. The collected volume is processed into the 'Original CH' product line, an unsorted textile offering from which 12-17% waste is removed before distribution to recycling and second-hand partners.

Product overview

SOGEAG-SOGETEX is a textile collection and recycling company operating 150 collection boxes across Geneva, Switzerland since 1998. The company's primary offering is the 'Original CH' service, which collects used textiles (clothing, shoes, bags, leather goods, home linens, sports articles) and provides them to partners after removing waste materials. The company also offers daily box collection services and regular maintenance of collection boxes.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Original CH: A product line consisting of collected textiles from Geneva canton including clothing, shoes, bags, jewelry, leather items, home linens, and sports articles. The company removes all waste (12-17% of collected material) and adds new products and retail surplus.

Products and services

• Original CH Primary textile product line consisting of unsorted collected textiles from which 12-17% waste volume is removed before distribution to recycling and second-hand wholesale partners.

Quantifiable outcome

• 12-17% waste volume removed from collected textiles through proprietary sorting process
• +1 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Local Authorities of GenevacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEstablished partnership with local government authorities in the canton of Geneva since 1998. Collaboration focuses on improving citizen welfare and environmental outcomes through textile collection services. The company works in close coordination with these collectivities for box placement and operational support.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Texaid: Swiss-headquartered textile collection and sorting company operating across Switzerland and Europe. Closest direct competitor to SOGEAG-SOGETEX with similar municipal collection boxes and downstream resale model.
• Boer Group (Recycling & Upcycling): European textile collector and recycler operating collection networks and sorting facilities; comparable in service offering and downstream resale to SOGEAG-SOGETEX.
• I:CO (I:Collect): Global textile take-back and recycling operator owned by Soex; runs branded collection bins in retail and public locations and sorts for resale and reuse — same end-to-end model as SOGEAG-SOGETEX.
• Caritas Switzerland (textile collection): Charity-affiliated textile collection network in Switzerland with street collection containers. Overlaps with SOGEAG-SOGETEX in Geneva-area donation drop-off and resale into secondhand markets.
• Humana People to People: Operates second-hand textile collection across multiple European countries including Switzerland via street containers; competes directly for municipal collection rights and downstream second-hand resale markets.
• Salvation Army Switzerland: Runs charity textile collection and resale stores in Switzerland; competes for the same donation stream and downstream second-hand wholesale buyers as SOGEAG-SOGETEX.

Emerging players

• Worn Again Technologies: UK-based textile-to-textile chemical recycler. Different technology layer (chemical recycling) but operates in the same textile circular-economy value chain that SOGEAG-SOGETEX feeds into.

Others

• Vinted: Peer-to-peer resale platform diverting secondhand textiles away from municipal collection streams. Not a competitor for collection boxes directly, but a structural threat to inbound donation volume.
• Patagonia (Worn Wear): Brand-operated take-back and resale program from a major outdoor apparel company. Adjacent to SOGEAG-SOGETEX's sourcing model and represents a downstream channel partner or competitor depending on direction of growth.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/profile.php
• Instagraminstagram.com/sogeag_sogetex

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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