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Elevate Outdoor Collective with new distribution in Spain and Norway
As part of the realignment and unification of the distribution structure of Elevate Outdoor Collective (EOC), the group – which includes the brands K2 Skis, K2 Snowboarding, Marker, Dalbello, Völkl, Ride Snowboards, Line Skis, Backcountry Access, Atlas Snow Shoe Co, Tubbs Snowshoes, Madshus and K2 Skates – has now decided ...
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Spanish retailer solidifying its image
According to Diffusion Sport, Atmósfera Sport has spent the year unifying its corporate image in its stores. The Spanish retailer began the refurbishments in January with 37 stores and by September had raised the number to 68, with another 50 or so planned for early 2024. Its 335 franchisees operate ...
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Spanish retailer Oteros Sport exits bankruptcy and draws expansion plan
Spanish athletic footwear retail chain Oteros Sport, which entered bankruptcy in September 2022 due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, has announced that it has been authorized by a commercial court in Cordoba to continue its operations. The company is therefore maintaining its 66 locations and 249 jobs and ...
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Pádel brand invites you to rent before you buy
StarVie has introduced eight-day pre-purchase rentals for pádel racquets. The fee per rental is €22.90 and includes the costs of shipping to and from the customer and of insurance to cover any damage to the racquet. The racquet is delivered to and collected from whatever address the customer provides. If ...
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Fútbol Emotion branches out
A specialty retailer until now, Fútbol Emotion is branching out into a new sport – indeed, new sports. As we’ve learned through Diffusion Sport, CEO and co-owner Carlos Sánchez has detailed the plan to infoRetail. “We’d like to take our know-how in football and export it to other sports, and ...
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Football thrives in Spain
Though it has long been the country’s “king sport,” football continues to expand in Spain. Citing figures put together by the market-analysis firm Circana (now part of NPD Sports Tracking Europe), Diffusion Sport relates year-on-year double-digit rises in both sales and units moved for football apparel and shoes for the ...
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Amer recovers in Spain
After two years of dips, Amer Sports Spain seems to have inverted the curve in 2022, falling just shy of the €60 million or so in revenues it was generating before the lockdowns came into force. According to the VAT-free figures that CMDsport has gathered from Spain’s commercial register, the ...
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Pickleball becomes official in Spain
Spain’s tennis federation (RFET) has incorporated the sport of pickleball. It has, in consequence, established a committee to handle pickleball-related matters and chosen the leader of pickleball’s Spanish association, Roberto Pérez, to preside over it. RFET’s chairman, Miguel Díaz Román, acknowledging pickleball’s fast growth in Europe, says the RFET seeks ...
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Inditex gets an H1 boost
Inditex improved its profitability by 40.1 percent in the first half of the year, which ended on July 31. According to Diffusion Sport, the Galician textiles firm’s net income amounted to €2.513 billion on revenues of €16.851 billion – themselves up 13.5 percent. Sales were up on- and offline and ...
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Catalonian chain expands
Wala has opened a seventh store, according to both TradeSport and CMDsport. It is a 2,200-sqm operation with a staff of 40 located in Sant Pere de Ribes, Catalonia. The retail chain does all of its business in this one Spanish autonomous community and covers mountain and snow sports, cycling, ...
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Banner FY 2022 at Sprinter
Sprinter’s sales for full-year 2022 exceeded €519 million, for a year-on-year increase of 30 percent, while net profit almost doubled, rising from €18.3 to €34.1 million – all according to Diffusion Sport. The chain also upped its store count in Spain by about 30 to a total of 205. It ...
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A look at Decathlon Spain’s FY 2022
In financial-year 2022, according to Spain’s Mercantile Register (as reported by CMDsport), Decathlon Spain generated sales of €1.869 billion (VAT excluded), 3.57 percent more than the €1.804 billion in the previous year. This is the highest total since 2018. The chain’s sales have been rising overall since 2018. There was ...
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Spain raids counterfeiters
Early this month, after an investigation that began in 2016, Spanish authorities dismantled a counterfeiting ring, arresting 39 people spread between Madrid (14), Seville (4), Girona (15), Málaga (3) and even as far afield as Tenerife (3), in the Canary Islands. They also searched 13 domiciles and inspected 22 warehouses, ...
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Bank engages in financed e-commerce
Gupo Kutxabank – born in 2012 from the merger of BBK, Kutxa and Vital, three banks in Spain’s Basque Country – has launched an online shop of goods and services for its customers, TradeSport reports. Kutxabankstore, as the service is called, divides its offering into six sections: technology, mobility, household, ...
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Sales up for H1 at Base Detall Sport
Base Detall Sport is satisfied with its performance so far in 2023, which it considers a year of stabilization and consolidation. With VAT excluded, accumulated sales for the first half amounted to about €65 million, for an increase of 13 percent year-on-year, as Diffusion Sport and TradeSport have reported. Online ...
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361 Degrees expands distribution partnership in Spain
Andalusian distributor, VC Sport, is to be the new distribution partner of technical basketball shoes from Chinese-based sporting brand 361 Degrees, according to CMD Sport. This is in addition to the brand’s technical shoes, which VC Sport has been distributing since 2017. Owner and head of the company, Roberto Canalesis ...
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Spanish retailer posts record sales
Spanish retailer Megasport achieved record sales of €21.5 million in its fiscal year ended April 30, CMD Sport has reported, surpassing the €20 million mark for the first time in its history. Sales were up 17 percent compared to the 2021/22 fiscal year. Megasport was founded in 1990 by David ...
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Decathlon to run 17 stores in part on solar power
Decathlon Spain is installing some 12,542 square meters of solar panels onto the roofs of 17 of its stores, according to Diffusion Sport. It expects the panels to generate more than 3.7 million kWh, or about 35 percent of the stores’ annual consumption of electricity, for a savings of 1,277 ...
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Völkl exits pádel market
Völkl is getting out of the pádel market and refocusing on tennis, as the German brand’s sales director for racquet sports in Spain, Héctor García, told CMDsport. The reversal, he observes, is enabling Völkl to evade some of pádel’s present-day turmoil. “This is not the time to enter” that market. ...
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Spanish market could break €9bn next year, says Afydad
Retail revenues (sell-out) for the Spanish sporting goods industry continued its march toward the €9 billion mark in 2022, reaching €8.993 billion through year-on-year growth of 4.6 percent. Things have, however, slowed down since the boom year of 2021, which offered more than twice the growth (11.1%). Last year’s wholesale ...