Anyhow, a couple of Spanish pure players in the sporting goods sector – Deporvillage and Tradeinn – have been growing briskly and become more international. Both of them this year made the “FT 1000: Europe's Fastest Growing Companies,” the Financial Times' annual ranking of the top 1,000 companies in Europe by percentage growth in revenues. This year's window of growth went from 2014 to 2017. The slowest company on the list had a growth rate of 37.7 percent.
The FT 1000 is not an exhaustive ranking, as it lists only companies that agreed to take part in the first place and met certain criteria. For instance, submitted revenue figures had to be certified by a company's chief financial officer, its chief executive or a member of its executive committee. Also, companies must have generated primarily organic revenue of at least €100,000 in 2014 and of at least €1.5 million in 2017. Moreover, they must have been independent, not subsidiaries, and they must be headquartered in a European country.
