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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 briefsFor now, chain in Madrid to expand only online
The watchwords for this year at Deportes Halcón are recovery and stability. CMDsport has spoken with its director of finance and marketing, Sandra Benito, according to whom sales for first-quarter 2023 at the four-store chain in Madrid are more or less flat. “The market,” she says, “is not easy.” Suppliers ...
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News briefsSpanish retailer to leave Intersport
Deportes Alvarado will be severing its ties with the Intersport Spain buying group on Oct. 31, according to CMDsport. This is its 50th anniversary year, and it has been with Intersport for about half of its existence. “We are not leaving Intersport over any difference or dispute with the group,” ...
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News briefsAdministrative changes to come at El Corte Inglés
El Corte Inglés and labor representatives have agreed to a plan, according to Diffusion Sport, to reorganize the retailer’s central and regional administration so as to increase the efficiency of operations. Affected by the changes will be some 2,100 employees. The plan is intended to maintain employment but also to ...
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News briefsIntersport Spain has a new country director
Ángel Solores will replace Xavier Alomar as the head of Intersport Spain, effective April 1. Alomar, who joined Intersport in 2019, is leaving the company to pursue other personal projects, Intersport said. Solores has long-standing experience in sports retail and consulting after running Probike for ten years and working for ...
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News briefsSpanish group’s plans so far paying off
Base Detall Sport continues to pursue its triple plan of expansion, verticalization and digitalization, according to Diffusion Sport. The Spanish group has now converted most of its stores to the new corporate image, and post-conversion sales are up on average by 20 percent. As we reported last month, the group ...
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News briefsSpanish e-tail giant to start a brand of its own
Tradeinn has plans to develop a brand of its own. The Spanish e-tailer – which operates a single physical store (in Celrà) and more than a dozen separate websites (divvied up by sport) – was in Barcelona for Eshow, the trade fair for e-commerce and digital marketing. There, according to ...
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News briefsFútbol Emotion acquires Basket Revolution
Fútbol Emotion, the Spanish sports equipment retailer specializing in football that is part of Grupo Tansley, has acquired Basket Revolution, a specialty retailer that sells basketball footwear, apparel, accessories and equipment. The financial details of the transaction have not been disclosed. As we reported just a few days ago, Fútbol ...
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News briefsSpanish police dissolve counterfeiting ring
Spain’s National Police in Elx (Alicante province, autonomous community of Valencia) have intercepted in Murcia some 70,000 counterfeit products, worth about €10 million, according to a report in Diffusion Sport. Among the items are 15,000 football kits, 2,000 pairs of sneakers, 30,000 sweatshirts and 5,000 pairs of jeans. The sting ...
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News briefsAtom selling 50% abroad in its first year
Atom ended its first year of operation with €2.4 million in sales, according to Diffusion Sport, which spoke with the running-shoe brand’s sales director, Antonio Sáenz, at last month’s Micam show. Half of the total consists of export sales, particularly in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, with the Czech Republic, ...
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News briefsJoma enjoys record 2022, remains prudent on 2023
Joma, the Spanish brand with headquarters in Toledo and a historical focus on running, football and tennis, was present as usual at the recent Micam footwear show, which ran on Feb. 19-22 in Milan. Alessandro Annibale, sales director of its Italian subsidiary, was on hand to meet with local retailers ...
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News briefsSpanish bike-rental company has big plans
Rookfy, a bicycle-rental platform in Spain, enjoyed a satisfactory debut last year, according to chief technology officer Santiago Alonso, who spoke with CMDsport. The young company has recently added the retailer Escapa to its marketplace and joined the Spanish Association of Brands and Bicycles (Ambe). In an interview with Joanseguidor.com, ...
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News briefsPádel takes the lead in Catalonia
The battle of racquet sports is hot in Catalonia, according to CMDsport. Back in 2019, for the first time, the ranks of the Catalonian Pádel Federation swelled past those of the Catalonian Tennis Federation. Tennis surged again thereafter but has since fallen behind again. For the past two years the ...
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News briefsDecathlon signs Spanish mobility manifesto
Decathlon has signed the Manifesto for Active Mobility, one of four such documents put forth by a public-private joint partnership in Spain called (in translation) The Future of Mobility. (The other three concern multimodal mobility, urban logistics and electric mobility.) The objective is to decarbonize transport so as to “generate ...
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ArticleBase Detall Sport doing pre-pandemic business
Base Detall Sport returned to pre-lockdown levels of revenue in 2020. Sell-in amounted to €70 million, up by 19 percent, while the buying group’s associated stores posted sales of about €175 million. Speaking with Diffusion Sport, CEO Toni Maristany ascribes the resurgence to the three pillars of Base’s triennial plan: ...
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News briefsDecathlon among co-founders of new textile waste association in Spain
A group of major European retailers has joined forces to launch the Association for Textile Waste Management, which aims to help manage clothing and footwear waste generated in the Spanish market. The group comprises Decathlon, H&M, Ikea, Inditex, Mango, Kiabi, and Tendam. The non-profit association was formed in connection with ...
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News briefsPreview of the upcoming Fitur show
The next edition of Fitur Sports will be taking place on Jan. 19 at IFEMA Madrid and addressing such matters as sporting events, training camps and sports holidays. Organized in collaboration with the Spanish Sports Association (Afydad), the show bills itself as a meeting of the tourism and sports industries, ...
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News briefsUYN hires new distributor for Spain, Portugal
UYN (Unleash Your Nature) has hired Mega Sport to handle its distribution in Spain and Portugal. The distributor’s chief executive, David Vinyeta, told CMDsport that the Italian apparel brand for outdoor, running, cycling, yoga and other sports produced some 1,860 products last year at its 3,500-square-meter research center, Areas (Academy ...
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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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The return of Fumarel’s physical stores
Spanish firm Fumarel, which specializes in technical sportswear, will open a physical store in Madrid’s Moraleja Green shopping mall on Nov. 30. Fumarel ceased activity in 2008. In 2017, Pedro Domecq, the son of the company’s founder, relaunched it online. The new 170-sqm shop in Madrid will be the company’s ...
