What is “SCRI”?
SCRI stands for Société coopérative à responsabilité illimitée (French), a cooperative used primarily in Belgium. The suffix signals that the business has limited liability and is privately held.
Full meaning & translation
The full form is Société coopérative à responsabilité illimitée, a French-language term. It translates literally as “Cooperative society with unlimited liability.” You may also encounter it abbreviated or written as coav, cooperatieve vennootschap met onbeperkte aansprakelijkheid, societe cooperative a responsabilite illimitee.
Where it's used
SCRI appears in company names registered in the following jurisdiction:
What it tells you about the company
Equivalent forms around the world
These are the closest structural equivalents to SCRI in other jurisdictions — same entity category, different national law.
Normalizing “SCRI” in your data
When matching or deduplicating company records, the legal suffix is noise — “Acme SCRI” and “Acme” should resolve to the same entity. One API call strips it and returns a stable canonical form:
curl -X POST https://api.ambect.com/v1/normalize/company \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $AMBECT_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"name": "Acme SCRI", "country": "be"}'{
"data": {
"canonical": "acme scri",
"legal_type": null,
"tokens": [
"acme",
"scri"
]
},
"meta": {
"pipeline": [
"lowercase",
"legal_suffix"
],
"confidence": 0.99
}
}Frequently asked questions
What does SCRI stand for?
SCRI stands for Société coopérative à responsabilité illimitée (French), which translates as "Cooperative society with unlimited liability".
Is a SCRI public or private?
A SCRI is a private entity — its shares are not publicly listed or traded on a stock exchange.
What is the liability in a SCRI?
Owners of a SCRI have limited liability. Their personal assets are protected, and their exposure is capped at the amount they invested.
Which countries use SCRI?
SCRI is used in Belgium.
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