Label Emmaüs

Label Emmaüs is a French online marketplace and cooperative dedicated to second-hand and solidarity-based commerce. Described on its own site as the newest addition to the Emmaüs Movement, it was created to apply digital innovation to the service of people and the environment, offering what it calls a strong counter-model to conventional e-commerce platforms. The cooperative sells second-hand books, fashion items, home goods, leisure products and refurbished tech, sourcing much of its inventory from Emmaüs structures and other actors in the social and solidarity economy (ESS). The organisation operates as a SCIC-SA (société coopérative d'intérêt collectif) with a directoire and a conseil de surveillance. Its governance is shared among five voting colleges, including founders such as Emmaüs France, Emmaüs structures selling on the marketplace, and citizen or individual members. This cooperative structure is central to its identity: Label Emmaüs presents itself as cooperative and non-profit, with democratic principles, transparency, cooperation and redistribution of wealth at the heart of its project. Beyond retail, Label Emmaüs describes itself as a laboratory for inclusive and collaborative innovation, working on digital, ecological and solidarity transitions. Its mission is to increase the resources and strengthen the impact of ESS actors, both through technology that improves their visibility and product valuation, and through financial and material support for their digital transition. It also supports training, integration and accompaniment of people distant from employment, with activities managed by employees in integration programmes. On its marketplace, shoppers can browse categories such as second-hand books, fashion, home, leisure and refurbished tech. Product listings show a wide network of sellers, including Emmaüs Vendée, Label Emmaüs Calais, Ulisse Grenoble Solidarité, APEF A Tout'Vapeur, Recyclerie La Belle Récup, La Marcotte, Tri-Tout Solidaire, Assajuco, Labelmine de Forbach, Bricoboutique – Croix-Rouge Française, Association le Grenier LE HAVRE, Ressourcerie Eco'Sol Le Pont – Cluny, and others. This illustrates the federating role Label Emmaüs plays across the French ESS landscape. The cooperative also invites citizens and companies to engage: individuals can invest in cooperative shares, donate time, give to its endowment fund, or join the team, while companies can become partners, engage in skills-based sponsorship, donate to the endowment fund, buy professional office furniture and book lots, or open an online shop. Label Emmaüs thus positions itself as both a marketplace and a movement-building platform for ethical, local and resilient consumption.

Label Emmaüs presents itself as the newest addition to the Emmaüs Movement, which it describes as carrying a vision of society where humans are at the centre of the system and everyone has a place. The Emmaüs Movement develops original solutions to fight exclusion, with strong values of welcome, solidarity, work and speaking out. Label Emmaüs was created within this tradition, using innovation to serve people and the environment. According to its own history page, Label Emmaüs set out to offer a strong counter-model to conventional e-commerce web platforms. Following this unique ethical and eco-responsible path, the cooperative quickly gathered numerous actors from the social and solidarity economy. It describes itself as a driver of digital, ecological and solidarity transition, and also as an inclusive and collaborative innovation laboratory, creating the opportunity to build together a new movement respectful of people and the environment. The cooperative's mission is to increase the resources and strengthen the impact of social and solidarity economy actors. It works both on solutions and technologies that promote the visibility of structures and the valuation of products, and on financial and material support for digital transition. As a SCIC, Label Emmaüs aims to gather and federate actors who share the same social commitment and who do not allow any mechanism for capturing individual wealth. Mutualisation of knowledge and resources, and mutual aid, are present in each of its activities, through the constitution of a network of actors and the strength of the collective. On its "Who are we?" page, Label Emmaüs states that in the fight against injustice, poverty, various forms of exclusion, waste and the new-goods industry, it is convinced that digital technology and the web are necessary and essential tools. Its ambition is to multiply actions in favour of integration, training and solidarity reuse, adapting essential models of solidarity to the web world. It positions itself in the e-commerce landscape as a true counter-model: cooperative and non-profit through shared governance, placing democratic principles, transparency, cooperation and redistribution of wealth at the heart of its project; solidarity-based through training, integration and support for people distant from employment, and through the management of activities by employees in integration; eco-responsible through its reuse activity and territorial anchoring, supporting a local, resilient model of production and consumption and working to democratise second-hand buying; and innovative through the diversity of projects carried out to achieve its mission and the new forms of consumption and citizen mobilisation it creates. Governance is a defining feature. The general assembly of all members votes on the major orientations of the cooperative and elects the supervisory board. Label Emmaüs is a SCIC-SA with a management board and a supervisory board, and has five voting colleges: founders, including Emmaüs France; Emmaüs structures selling on the marketplace; citizens or individuals; and others. This multi-stakeholder structure distinguishes it from conventional online retail businesses. On its "Act with us" page, Label Emmaüs notes that for more than five years its cooperative has gathered and federated actors from different horizons — citizens, companies and social and solidarity economy structures — around a shared project of collective interest. Together, it says, they have started a humanist revolution in the digital sector, building the web they want for tomorrow: solidarity-based, fair and sustainable. It invites citizens to invest in cooperative shares, give time, donate to its endowment fund or join the team, and invites companies to become partners, engage in skills-based sponsorship, donate to the endowment fund, buy professional office furniture and book lots, or open an online shop. Today Label Emmaüs operates an online marketplace where shoppers can browse second-hand books, fashion, home, leisure and refurbished tech. Its listings feature a broad network of seller organisations, from Emmaüs groups to recycleries and other associations, reflecting its role as a federator of the French social and solidarity economy.

• Label Emmaüs is created as the newest addition to the Emmaüs Movement, aiming to offer a counter-model to conventional e-commerce.

• The cooperative gathers numerous social and solidarity economy actors around its ethical and eco-responsible marketplace.

• Label Emmaüs operates as a SCIC-SA with a management board and supervisory board and five voting colleges.

• After more than five years, the cooperative reports having federated citizens, companies and ESS structures around a shared project of collective interest.

A cooperative, non-profit and eco-responsible counter-model to conventional e-commerce, federating social and solidarity economy actors and promoting second-hand consumption.

• Second-hand books

• Second-hand fashion

• Home goods and vintage lighting

• Leisure products

• Refurbished tech

• Professional office furniture and book lots for companies

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