List of Scops in France: 2,700 Scops and where to find the official list

How many Scops are there in France?#

At the end of 2025, France has 2,732 Scops and 1,421 Scics. These numbers come from the 2022-2025 report of the Confédération générale des Scop, published on March 19, 2026. The movement reports 94,745 cooperative jobs, or about 95,000.

A Scop is a société coopérative et participative: its employees are the majority partners. A Scic is a société coopérative d'intérêt collectif (a cooperative serving a collective interest). The two statuses are counted separately.

So the short answer is two numbers, not one. Keep them separate and dated: "end of 2025, Confédération générale des Scop."

The official list has grown. It named 2,074 companies in 2017 and 2,482 in 2024, which is 20% more. In concrete terms: the latest list has 408 more Scops than the 2017 one.

Where can you find the official list of Scops?#

The most recent official list is the one for 2024, published in the Journal officiel of August 21, 2024. No list for 2025 or 2026 had appeared in the Journal officiel as of November 6, 2026: we checked the titles of every issue published since then.

The reference document is the list of sociétés coopératives ouvrières de production published in the Journal officiel. Since the law of July 31, 2014 on the social and solidarity economy, the law says "sociétés coopératives de production." The Journal officiel list kept "ouvrières" until the 2021 edition, and since 2022 it has been titled "Liste des sociétés coopératives de production pour l'année."

Légifrance hosts several editions of this list. The most visible is the list of sociétés coopératives ouvrières de production published in the Journal officiel in 2021. Légifrance has one edition per year, going back to at least 2003; we counted the last eight, from 2017 to 2024.

Each line of a list gives the name, the headquarters address and the SIREN number (the French company ID), sorted by département. The list cannot be downloaded as a spreadsheet: Légifrance offers it as a web page and as a PDF. The text of the Journal officiel also exists as open files, in XML format, on the DILA website (the agency that publishes the Journal officiel), but you have to process them yourself. The 2024 list covers 99 of 101 départements: no Scop in Guadeloupe or Mayotte.

Each edition is dated. A list in the Journal officiel is never updated: it is a snapshot of the companies recognized at a given moment. A Scop created since then does not appear on it.

The list has a legal basis. It is drawn up each year by order of the minister in charge of labor, after consulting the Confédération générale des Scop (law no. 78-763 of July 19, 1978, article 54; decree no. 79-376 of May 10, 1979, article 1). A company that is not on it cannot call itself a Scop.

For a recent Scop, the latest published list is not always enough. A new Scop is registered by an order issued in its département, by the direction départementale de l'emploi, du travail et des solidarités (DDETS, the local labor administration). This order is published in the prefecture's collection of administrative acts: the Isère collection of February 3, 2023 gives an example. The business registry offers another lead: 87 companies classified as Scops, with an open location, were created after August 21, 2024 and so appear on no list. They must be confirmed one by one, because the legal form alone does not prove registration.

There is also a directory run by the movement, on les-scop.coop. It can be filtered by sector, by département and by type (Scop, Scic, coopérative d'activité et d'emploi), with no visible export option, and Service-Public, the French government's official information site, links to it. It is not the official list: it is run by the Confédération, and we could not measure how many Scops of the list it covers.

What to check before targeting Scops#

Four steps are enough to go from the official list to an accurate prospect list. They follow from the figures on this page; the first is detailed just below.

Can you spot a Scop in the Sirene registry?#

Not with the legal form alone. Of the 2,378 active Scops on the 2024 list, only 1,252 are classified as "coopérative de production (SCOP)" in the registry, which is 53%.

The others break down as follows: 720 as "autre SARL ou SA coopérative," 149 as SAS (simplified joint-stock company) and 257 as SARL (limited liability company), SA (corporation) or another form with no cooperative designation. The law also lets a Scop be an SAS (article 3 of the 1978 law, in the version amended by the 2014 law on the social and solidarity economy), and the registry has no Scop category for that form.

Conversely, 2,874 active companies are classified as Scops in the registry. 1,252 are on the 2024 list and 90 only on an older list. 1,532 appear on no list since 2017, and 1,093 of them no longer have any open location.

In concrete terms: a file built on the legal form alone misses nearly one in two Scops and brings back 1,093 companies with no open location. To read this registry, see Insee's Sirene database (France's national statistics office).

What the latest list contains, two years later#

Of the 2,482 Scops on the 2024 list, 2,378 are still active in the Sirene registry in September 2026, which is 96%. 104 are closed in the registry: 4 as early as 2023, before the list even appeared, 31 in 2024 and 69 in 2025 or 2026. We cross-checked the list against the registry, company by company.

In concrete terms: a 2024 list is still 96% accurate for the companies it names, but it misses every Scop created since.

A list of Scops is not a list of prospects#

The Scop status says who owns and runs the company. It does not say what the company sells. Two Scops can work in trades that have nothing in common.

The activity is read elsewhere, in the NAF code of each location (France's activity classification code, set by Insee and also called the APE code). This code tells you whether a Scop falls within your target.

A list of companies gives one address per company, that of its headquarters; it does not give the list of its sites. A company has a SIREN number, the company's nine-digit ID.

Each of its sites has a SIRET number (the fourteen-digit ID of each business location). A Scop can have several. The 2,378 active Scops on the 2024 list have 3,821 open locations: 516 have at least two, 79 at least five, and the largest has 118 (a cooperative driving school).

Knowing how many Scops there are is a market-research question. Turning them into accounts to prospect is another job: going from the company to the location, then checking the activity of each one.

Who are the Scops on the official list?#

The Scops on the 2024 list are mostly in specialized services, followed by construction. Of the 2,378 still active, 549 work in specialized services (technical studies, consulting, architecture), 434 in construction, 347 in manufacturing, 211 in wholesale and retail trade and 200 in information and communication.

What a Scop does shows on its website and in its references; its activity code, declared to Insee as for all businesses in France, is only a pointer. The most frequent trades, with that code as a pointer, are engineering and technical studies (71.12B, 173 Scops), consulting (70.22Z, 133), adult continuing education (85.59A, 82), architecture (71.11Z, 80) and masonry (43.99C, 68).

They are small, but not all of them. 1,276 have from 1 to 9 employees, 1,059 have 10 employees or more, and 18 have 250 or more. In concrete terms: a little over half are very small businesses, and more than 4 in 10 have 10 employees or more.

For the 944 Scops (4 in 10) whose latest published accounts (fiscal year ending in 2024 or later) show revenue, half have revenue above €846,000. Companies with confidential accounts are not included. Half were created in 2009 or earlier, and 290 in 2020 or later.

Decisions are made by several people. 6,004 officers are in office across 2,321 Scops, which is 2.6 per company (managers, directors). As for certifications, at least 214 Scops are RGE certified (the qualification for energy-renovation tradespeople) and 128 hold Qualiopi certification (the French quality label for training providers). At least 20 are Biocoop stores (a French organic grocery cooperative chain), and at most 98% of the 2,347 linked headquarters belong to no visible network.

For a campaign, these filters can be combined: a trade (what the Scop does, first spotted through its activity code), a size (from 10 employees, the purchase is often decided by several people) and a label (RGE for renovation, Qualiopi for training). The last step is going from the company to its locations: each location has its SIRET number, its address and its activity code.

Can you reach the Scops on the list?#

Not directly: the list gives no phone number, website or email. For the 2,347 open headquarters we found (of the 2,378 active Scops, 22 have no open headquarters in the registry and a few headquarters coincide with another location), we looked for their public online profiles: business profiles and professional directories, which we linked to each headquarters.

At least 83% have a phone number on one of these profiles, 74% a website and 45% an email address. These shares are minimums: a profile we did not link is not counted. Conversely, at most 15% have no public contact linked to their headquarters.

In concrete terms: more than 4 in 5 Scops can be reached by phone, and at most 15% have no public contact linked to their headquarters.

Why two Scop figures don't always compare#

The number of Scops varies from one website to the next. Before concluding there is a rise or a fall, run four checks.

• The date. The end-of-2025 figure comes from the 2022-2025 report. A figure taken from an older edition describes the movement at a different point in time. An undated figure can't be compared with anything.

• The scope of jobs. The 94,745 jobs at the end of 2025 are cooperative jobs. Other figures include subsidiaries, like the movement's revenue: €10.3 billion with subsidiaries, including €8.3 billion for the cooperatives themselves. Two definitions give two figures, without any real change in employment.

• The scope of businesses. Scop and Scic are two distinct statuses. Some figures add them, others do not. When a total is announced, add up the two numbers yourself: it does not always add up. The Confédération reports 4,583 businesses for the movement, while 2,732 + 1,421 make 4,153; the press release does not detail the other 430.

• The source. The official list (2,482 in August 2024) and the Confédération's count (2,723 at the end of 2024) are not counted at the same date, nor with the same rule: a registration by order on one side, the movement's own count on the other.

The rule fits in one line. A figure on Scops is cited with its date, its scope and its source.

Frequently asked questions#

How many Scops does France have?#

At the end of 2025, 2,732 Scops and 1,421 Scics according to the Confédération générale des Scop. The latest official list, the one in the Journal officiel of August 21, 2024, names 2,482 Scops, of which 2,378 are still active in September 2026.

Where can you download the list of Scops?#

On Légifrance, where each annual edition can be read as a web page and as a PDF (we counted those from 2017 to 2024). There is no official spreadsheet file; the text exists in XML on the DILA website. The les-scop.coop directory can be filtered but offers no export.

Where can you find Scops created since 2024?#

They are on no Journal officiel list. Look for the registration orders in the prefecture's collection of acts, and in the movement's directory. The business registry flags 87, created after August 21, 2024 and classified as Scops, to be confirmed one by one.

Has the 2025 list of Scops been published?#

No, as of November 6, 2026: the latest list in the Journal officiel is the 2024 one, published on August 21, 2024. The 2025 and 2026 lists do not appear there.

What is the difference between a Scop and a Scic?#

In a Scop, the employees are the majority partners. A Scic brings together several types of partners around a collective interest. The two statuses are counted separately: 2,732 Scops and 1,421 Scics at the end of 2025.

How can you tell whether a company is a Scop?#

Look up its SIREN number in the latest Journal officiel list. The legal form in the registry is not enough: 1,126 of the 2,378 active Scops on the 2024 list are not classified as Scops there.

Method#

We read the annual lists of Scops in the Journal officiel (2017 to 2024) and cross-checked them, by SIREN number, with the Sirene registry of September 2026 and with the public online profiles we linked to their headquarters, read on November 9, 2026. The Confédération's figures come from its press release of March 19, 2026.

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