Decathlon Spain generated revenues of €2.034 billion (VAT included) in 2021, for a year-on-year increase of 18.3 percent. Net profit amounted to €96.7 million, of which €19 million was shared with its 11,910 employees. The Decathlon group’s revenues were up by 12.5 percent for the year.
Online sales reached €326 million (VAT included), accounting for 16 percent of sales in Spain. The Spanish market remains, after France, the group’s second-largest, bringing in 12.5 percent of total revenues.
Over the course of 2021, Decathlon Spain inaugurated its online marketplace, whose selection now exceeds 100,000 items. The company operates 176 physical stores as well as five regional and two continental warehouses in the country. Four of the stores – in Ondara, León, Pamplona and Granollers – opened in 2021, while three – in San Javier, Diagonal Mar (Barcelona) and City Vigo – were relocated. The warehouse in Barcelona was also relocated. The company is calling the new building – 95,987 square meters in Barcelona proper – one of the world’s largest and most sustainable (with platinum LEED certification) logistical hubs.
Decathlon Spain says that some 11.4 percent of products sold during 2021 were eco-designed, all of its cotton was sustainably sourced, and 62 percent of its products bore environmental labels. It is pledging to make all products eco-designed by 2026.
The current year is the Decathlon’s 30th year of operation in Spain. It established a partnership with the Spanish Sports Association (ADESP) in March and has signed deals with a number of federations, among them the Spanish Regal Cycling Federation, the Basque Cycling Federation, the Madrid Tennis Federation and the Spanish Regal Swimming Federation.
The Decathlon group operates some 1,700 stores in 70 countries and employs about 100,000.
