All Spain articles – Page 7
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News briefsDecathlon positions itself as the “benchmark company” for padel sports
Decathlon Spain is determined not to miss the opportunities offered by the still trendy sport of padel. The retailer has announced that it wants to position itself as “the reference for padel players.” To that end, it is heavily promoting the D-Padel marketplace, which was originally created by employees of ...
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News briefsSpain’s sporting goods production continues to grow
The production of sporting goods in Spain recorded a 70 percent increase in December 2021 as compared to the same month of 2020, based on provisional data from the Spanish Statistical Office (INE). The performance also marks the fourth consecutive month of growth in the sector’s industrial production index (IPI). ...
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Gorilla Sports gains foothold in Spain
Gorilla Sports has found a local investor to help it set up a shop in Spain. The German home fitness equipment company is establishing a subsidiary, to be led by Guillem Boix, in Fontcoberta, a city in the Catalonian province of Girona. Offices and warehouse together will occupy about 1,000 ...
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European app logs post-pandemic surge in walking
In 2021, with the easing of pandemic restrictions, Europeans emerged from their houses to walk – or so says WeWard, which has been producing and operating a walking app since 2019. The company’s study of data collected for 2020 and 2021 – as generated by some 4.5 million app users ...
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Catalonia seeks to extend Spain’s cultural subsidy to sport
The Union of Sports Federations of Catalonia (UFEC) has renewed its request to the Spanish government for a subsidy to be given to consumers to boost sports participation. The initial request was among the measures proposed in the UFEC’s “Marshall Plan” for the sports industry, submitted in April 2020 with ...
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Draft law would overhaul Spain’s policy on sports
Spain’s Council of Ministers has approved a bill to overhaul national policy on sports through the revision and expansion of a law that dates to 1990. According to its proponent, the Spanish Minister of Culture and Sport Miquel Iceta, the new law would represent an advance in values and take ...
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Spanish mountain sports retailers' association Green to launch website
CMDsport reports that Green, an association of 13 independent mountain sports retailers in Spain, is set to launch next year a website, called The Green, to promote the association’s name to suppliers and consumers alike. According to Carles Raimundo, owner of Foracorda, a store in Palma de Mallorca that belongs ...
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Spanish sports show in Cádiz targets a broader audience
A new Spanish Sports and Health Show (Feria del Deporte y la Vida Sana) is scheduled for Nov. 19-21 on the C-IFECA fairgrounds in Cádiz, hosting some 40 exhibitors. The organizers highlight a broadening of the industry’s focus since 1990 from elite athletes and professional clubs to the public at ...
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Kelme’s Spanish distributor is fighting for life
According to Diffusion Sport, New Millennium Sports has asked the third commercial court of Alicante, in the Spanish autonomous community of Valencia, to allow it to enter into bankruptcy protection proceedings. The former owner of the Kelme brand, which has a contract for its dstribution in Spain, seeks to avoid ...
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ArticleAdidas to double minimum orders by Spanish buying groups
Next year, according to CMDsport, Adidas will be doubling the minimum order for any Spanish buying groups from €1 million to €2 million. While most of Spain’s numerous buying groups already exceed the threshold, certain retailers tell the Spanish trade paper that they believe Adidas is ratcheting up its strategy ...
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Diffusion Sport is holding a sports industry congress
Diffusion Sport is organizing a congress, called Sport Forum, for professionals in the sporting sector. The first edition is scheduled for Oct. 20-21 at the International Convention Center in Barcelona, Spain. It will form part of the Plataforma de Negocio event, a gathering of professionals in the security, customer experience, ...
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Decathlon Spain partners with eco-food retailer Veritas
Decathlon Spain has partnered with Veritas, a Spanish chain of ecologic food markets, to expand its food offering, most typically focused on food complements for sports. As part of the agreement, the Decathlon Rivas-Vaciamadrid store in the Madrid area will be selling eco-food products from Veritas in a dedicated shop-in-shop ...
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More Spaniards are exercizing than before
According to a new survey conducted by Spain’s Superior Sports Council (CSD), the number of Spaniards participating in some kind of sport at least once per year rose by 6.1 percentage points – from 53.5 to 59.6 percent – between 2015 and 2020. Last year, six out of ten Spaniards ...
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Another Spanish buying group ceases operations
There are still more buying groups of independent sports retailers in Spain than in any other country, but they are going through rough times. According to CMDsport, one of them, Quorum Sport, having run into financial trouble due to fiscal problems, has ceased operations. This is the second buying group ...
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Omnichannel purchasing has become the norm in Spain
According to the “Estudio E-Commerce 2021,” a study put out by IAB Spain and Elogia, the distinction between e-tail and physical retail has blurred this year in Spain to the point of indifference for 58 percent of the country’s consumers. This is an increase of six percentage points from last ...
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Sport is not among Spain’s top e-tail categories
Sport does not figure among the chief product categories in Spanish e-commerce. So says the latest edition of an annual study put out by Elogia, a Spanish digital marketing agency, and IAB Spain, which claims to be the world’s largest association of communications, advertising and digital-marketing agencies. Some 25.8 million ...
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Afydad partners with the GSIC, powered by Microsoft
The Global Sports Innovation Center (GSIC) powered by Microsoft and the Spanish Association of Sporting Goods Manufacturers and Distributors (Afydad) will be forming a joint commission to expand the use of technology in the sporting goods sector, notably in terms of digitalization, and take part in Spain’s Development Plan for ...
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Spain alone providing post-pandemic relief to the sport sector?
Spain is the only country in the EU that has so far included the sport sector in its subsidies for the recovery from Covid-19, according to the chairman of the country’s Upper Council on Sport (CSD), José Manuel Franco. The claim could not be verified at the time of going ...
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10k apparel and footwear fakes seized in Spain
Authorities and the police in Badalona, a Spanish municipality near Barcelona, have detained ten Chinese nationals for trafficking in counterfeit goods at the shops they operate. Of the 10,000-odd items seized, with a total value exceeding €400,000, some 8,836 were apparel and footwear items offered under such faked brands as ...
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Sports retailers’ closures up by 84% year-on-year in Spain
Like in other countries, the pandemic has accelerated a reduction in the number of sporting goods stores in Spain, adding to factors such as the growing weight of e-commerce, the more selective distribution policies of the major sports brands and the general modernization of the trade. Some 372 sporting goods ...
