All Deporvillage articles
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News briefsSpanish e-tailer hits three more European markets
Deporvillage has inaugurated three more e-commerce sites – for Denmark, the Netherlands and Poland. According to sales director Alex Reina, who has spoken with CMDsport, the Spanish specialist in cycling, running and outdoor sports believes that the Netherlands could become a key market in three to five years, as early ...
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News briefsFormerly pure e-tailer predicts a record year
Deporvillage appears to have returned to double-digit growth in revenues and has accordingly raised its revenue forecast for the current year from €163 to €170 million, according to Modaes and Palco23. Should the crystal ball prove accurate, the retailer will surpass the record year of 2021 with its late-Covid euphoria. ...
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ArticleJD Sports to acquire all remaining shares of Iberian Sports Retail Group
JD Sports Fashion has announced its intention to acquire the remaining 49.98 percent stake in Iberian Sports Retail Group (ISRG), currently held by Balaiko Firaja Invest and Sonae Holdings, for a total cash consideration of €500.1 million, to be funded from the group’s existing cash resources. Upon completion of the ...
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ArticleJD Sports eyes 3.9% profit increase before tax and adjusted items in FY24
Britain’s JD Sports, coming out of a financial year where Ebit declined by 33 percent to £440.9 million (€507.6m) from £654.7 million due to exits from branded fashion businesses and the cost of shuttering its South Korea operations at a total expense of £550.5 million, is aiming to hit the ...
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ArticleSprinter, Deporvillage hope to open new chapter with new store
Sprinter has opened a big store – on the former premises of an IKEA – that it hopes will serve as a watershed, separating its past from its future, according to Diffusion Sport and other sources in Spain. Located at the Alcora Plaza de Alcorcón shopping center in Madrid, the ...
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News briefsDecathlon Spain dominates in mountain sports
When it comes to e-commerce in mountain sporting goods Decathlon reigns supreme in Spain. Drawing from Google analytics and data gathered by the SEO company Sistrix, CMDsport has evaluated the performance of the country’s top e-tailers with a list of 32 best-selling product types, such as tents, skis, ski boots, ...
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News briefsDeporvillage raises its sales projections
Black Friday, it seems, has augured better than the second quarter for Deporvillage, which has raised its projections for current-year annual sales to €157 million, according to CMDsport. This would be just shy of the record haul of 2021: €160 million. The week-long pre-Christmas promotion brought in more than 86,000 ...
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News briefsDeporvillage installs solar panels at its new headquarters
Sports e-tailer Deporvillage has completed the installation of 286 solar panels on the roof of its new offices in Sant Fruitós de Bages (Barcelona). The company moved to its new 2,600-square-meter headquarters, from the previous one in Manresa, earlier this year, as also reported by SGI Europe at the time. ...
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News briefsDeporvillage launches its third own-brand
Deporvillage has developed a brand of technical men’s and women’s apparel and accessories for the outdoor market, according to DiffusionSport. The new Reld brand offers T-shirts, pants, fleeces jackets, vests, windbreakers, gloves and socks, manufactured with proprietary materials such as Reld Warm Keeper, Reld Dry Keeper, Reld Water Shelter and ...
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News briefsJD Sports acquires another 18% in Deporvillage, how holding 98% of the online retailer
Following the group’s announcement in June 2021, JD Sports Fashion announced that Iberian Sports Retail Group (ISRG; the group’s existing 50.02 percent intermediate holding company in Spain) has acquired an additional 18 percent holding in the issued shares of Deporvillage from co-founders Xavier Pladellorens and Àngel Corcuera for a cash ...
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Deporvillage returns as La Vuelta’s official online store
Spanish sports e-tailer Deporvillage and Unipublic, the organizer of La Vuelta, have signed a collaboration agreement that makes the online sports equipment retailer the official online store of the most important race in the Spanish cycling calendar for the next three years. Deporvillage will sell the four leader’s jerseys made ...
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News briefsDeporvillage’s 11-year growth streak ends
In January, when we last checked in with the Spanish multichannel sports e-tailer, Deporvillage had wrapped up an 11th consecutive year of growth. Annual revenues for 2021 were up year-on-year by 40 percent. Things have now changed. Sales for the first and now the second quarter have been flat with ...
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Deporvillage relocates to new headquarters
Deporvillage, the Spanish multichannel sports e-tailer, has moved to a new 2,600-square-meter headquarters in Sant Fruitós de Bages, near Barcelona. The two-floor facility is just a few minutes from the previous headquarters in Manresa. The move is meant to help the company meet the operational requirements of its growing business. ...
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Deporvillage posts record sales again
Deporvillage has met its targets and wrapped up an 11th consecutive year of growth. As CMDsport reports, revenues for 2021 amounted to $160 million, for a 40 percent year-on-year increase, and total customers worldwide now exceed 2.5 million, thanks to 700,000 new ones. The Spanish mutichannel sports e-tailer carries 100,000 ...
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Deporvillage’s catalog now exceeds 100,000 items
Deporvillage’s product catalog has passed the milestone of 100,000 items. Thanks to such lockdown effects as distance work and the spike in online purchasing, home fitness has become a top segment for the Catalonian e-commerce specialist, which was recently acquired indirectly by JD Sports Fashion through its controlling interest in ...
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ArticleJD Sports Fashion on track to acquire Deporvillage
Deporvillage has found a buyer. As we reported in January, the owners of this international sports e-tailer based in Catalonia had engaged a financial advisor with a view toward selling a majority stake. JD Sports Fashion has since stepped in through its controlled holding company in Spain, the Iberian Sports ...
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Deporvillage to get a new HQ
Deporvillage plans to move its headquarters to new buildings in the Catalonian municipality of Sant Fruitós de Bages sometime late this year. There the staff, which recently came to exceed 100, will occupy 2,500 square meters of space. The Spanish e-tailer last expanded its office space in 2017, and has ...
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Deporvillage seeks to sell a majority stake
According to the Spanish financial daily Expansión, Deporvillage has engaged a financial advisory, Arcano Partners, to seek out an investor to purchase a majority stake in the company. The fast-growing Spanish e-tailer of sporting goods is currently majority owned by its founders, Ángel Corcuera and Xavier Pladellorens, and by such ...
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Deporvillage more than doubles its annual sales
Deporvillage’s tenth-anniversary year was one for the record books. In 2020 the Spanish e-tailer of sporting goods raised its annual turnover by 105 percent toa n unprecedented level of €120 million, exceeding by 60 percent the company’s own projection of €75 million. The pandemic-related lockdowns were, of course, the driving ...
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Deporvillage sees a run on indoor cycling
Like many other retailers of sporting goods, Spain’s Deporvillage has experienced a run on fitness items with the onset of new Covid-19 lockdowns and a good autumn/winter season. Stationary bikes have been difficult enough to keep in stock, but never in its decade-long history has the e-tailer seen such demand ...
