Recomme provides a white‑label, award‑winning circularity platform for brands and retailers, enabling take-back, triage, resale, refurbishment and recycling with analytics and commerce integrations to manage end‑of‑life product flows.
Circularity Relevance
Core
Platform explicitly designed to enable circular business models (resale, take-back, recycling, refurbishment) for brands and retailers. Source: Recomme, 2024
Circular Role
SupportEnabler
Recomme offers a white-labelled platform and integrates with brands' commerce and logistics rather than operating primarily as a public consumer marketplace; it enables brands to deliver circular services. Source: Recomme, 2024
Circular Type
CircularRetailer
• Products
• B2C
• B2B2C
White-label platform for brands to resell or accept returns from consumers (products). The matchmaking flow is brand-to-consumer (B2C) and brand-to-consumer via the brand's channels (B2B2C). Source: Recomme, 2024
Primary evidence: resale and refurbishment services are central to product flows on the platform; site also references repair/refurbishment and recycling as supported outcomes. Source: Recomme, 2024; Source: Vogue Business, 2024
Circular Business Model
Resale / Second-hand, Take-back / Buy-back
Site emphasises white-labelled resale, take-back applications and integration with brand commerce, indicating resale and take-back as primary business models enabled. Source: Recomme, 2024
Organisational Type
ForProfit
Operates as a commercial, white-label SaaS and services provider for brands and retailers; no public non-profit status indicated. Source: Recomme, 2024
Sector
Fashion & Textiles
Site and multiple press stories position Recomme as a fashion/apparel circularity platform focused on brands and retailers. Source: Recomme, 2024; Source: UKFT, 2024
Geographical Reach
National
• United Kingdom
Primarily referenced in UK partnerships and press (Repurpose hub with ACS and UKFT) - clear UK focus. No explicit global office list found. Source: UKFT, 2024
Hardware Component
None
No evidence that Recomme supplies specialised hardware; offering is software, processes and partner logistics/processing. (Processing hub 'Repurpose' is a partnership, not Recomme-supplied hardware). Source: Recomme, 2024; Source: ACS, 2024
Tech Map Relevance
Recomme is an industry-facing circularity platform that provides white-labelled resale, take-back and recycling tooling for brands and retailers; this is directly relevant to the Circular Tech Map inclusion criteria. Source: Recomme, 2024
Enablers are initially categorised by an AI agent, then verified by a real human. Suggestions or corrections are most welcome.
