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ArticleBike-flipping: to boost sales and encourage sustainability
Alejandro Pons sees great potential for reconditioned bicycles both in his company’s domestic market of Spain and abroad. Pons is the founder and CEO of Tuvalum, an online platform for the sale of second-hand bicycles, and has expounded his views to CMDsport. His enthusiasm contrasts with the current gloom in ...
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News briefsDeporvillage expands porfolio
Deporvillage has added six brands to its retail portfolio, according to CMDsport. Both online and through the two physical stores it opened this year, in Madrid and Granada, it will now sell the bicycles of Berria, Bianchi, BMC, Lapierre, Mondraker and Pinarello. The retailer, a part of Iberian Sports Retail ...
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News briefsBetter Cotton enters into strategic partnership in Spain
The Better Cotton sustainability initiative has launched a strategic partnership with the Interprofessional Cotton Association (Espalgodon) and the Regional Government of Andalucia – two stakeholders that have helped align the regional government’s Integrated Production System (IPS) and the Better Cotton Standard System (BCSS) – to kick-start Better Cotton-equivalent cotton production ...
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News briefsIndustry associations to collaborate in Spain
Spain’s association of sporting-goods manufacturers and distributors (Afydad) and association of active-tourism and ecotourism firms (Anetae) have formed a partnership to promote their two national sectors synergistically. In short, they will be promoting products through tourism and tourism through products, with collaborative events playing a big part. By CMDsport’s count, ...
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ArticleRotor taking a hit in revenues
Rotor, the Spanish manufacturer of bicycle components, had the best year in its history in 2022, when revenues fell just shy of €22 million, improving by 30 percent on the previous year, but things have since slowed. The first half of 2023 produced a 25 percent drop in sales, and ...
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News briefsRevenues just keep rising at Trek Spain
With the close of its financial year 2022, Trek Bicycle’s Spanish subsidiary has racked up at least six consecutive years of record revenues, according to CMDsport. This time around, revenues amounted to €57.32 million, up almost 33 percent from FY 2021’s €43.15 million. This was both the company’s first time ...
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News briefsSpanish booking platform expands from snow to sun
Vivra hopes to become for sports classes what Playtomic has become for tennis and padel – the top online bookings platform. Founded in 2022 as a booking site for ski classes, the company has expanded from winter to summer sports and put together a network of 50 partner companies operating ...
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News briefsColumbia opens store in Bilbao
Columbia Sportswear has opened a store at the Fashion Outlet Barakaldo shopping mall, near Bilbao, Spain, in partnership with Newmark Retail. The American sportswear brand has stores at other Spanish malls, including Las Rozas (Madrid), La Roca del Vallès (Barcelona) and McArthurGlen (Málaga), as well as 21 shop-in-shops at El ...
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News briefsTrek has a new store
Trek’s first new store of the year in Spain is also its 25th point of sale in the country, according to CMDsport. It will also be the American brand’s last new store in Spain over the short term. Of the total, 12 are own stores, and the rest are operations ...
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News briefsSpain founds a trail running network
The Spanish Athletics Federation (RFEA) has established what it calls a National Network of Permanent Installations for Trail Running. There will be 29 of these in 27 Spanish provinces. Some 15 are open, and the other 14 will be opening over the course of the current year. All told, they ...
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News briefsSales up but margins slim at Running ZGZ
Running ZGZ of Zaragoza, Spain, managed to boost revenues by 5 percent year-on-year for 2022, but owner David Constante, who spoke with CMDsport, remains dissatisfied. The record haul of €710,000 is up 65 percent from 2020, but the forecast for 2022 was an increase on the order of 20 to ...
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ArticleSpanish bike-rental outfit 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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ArticleTrial phase of the new Bike24 logistics center for southern Europe underway
Before the end of the year, the new logistics center of the German cycling, running and swimming sports online retailer Bike24 Holding AG started its pilot run in Barcelona. The first test packages have already been shipped. This means that the second logistics center of the “leading e-commerce platform for ...
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News briefsSpecialized acquires S’Escapada stores in Mallorca
Specialized has acquired the three S’Escapada bicycle stores in Palma de Mallorca, CMD Sport reported. The financial details of the transaction have not been disclosed. Following this acquisition, Specialized now has a total of 20 stores in Spain. In February 2021, Specialized signed a sponsoring agreement with the football team ...
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News briefsBig gravel bike store opens in Barcelona
Europe’s biggest gravel bike store has opened in Barcelona, according to Tradebike. Located at number 72 of Calle Consell de Cent, Gravel Planet Store has a showroom of 1,000 square meters and reflects some €2 million in investments. The objective is to be racking up annual sales of €5 million, ...
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News briefsSalewa-Vèrtic partnership opens for business
A first Mountain Shop Vèrtic has opened, according to Diffusion Sport. Located in Barcelona, the store is a collaboration between Vèrtic and Salewa Ibérica and follows the multi-brand model of the matter’s parent, Oberalp. Its 400sqm will be stocked with products from Oberalp (Salewa, Dynafit, Wild Country, Evolv, Pomoca and ...
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ArticleExports up and projects underway at Spain’s Capri Bikes
Seeing its exports expand from 40 to 60 percent of sales over the past half-year, Capri Bikes is raising its projection for annual revenues from €1.76 to €2.2 million, according to CMDsport. This would raise the total sold of its 1970s-themed bikes from last year’s 5,000 to 7,000. Last year ...
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News briefsAndalusian bike chain benefits from tourism
BikePhilosophy, with stores in Marbella, Málaga and Vélez-Málaga, enjoyed a year-on-year rise in sales of 30 percent in the third quarter, according to CMDsport. The Spanish retailer’s first quarter fell short of expectations, with a rise of 9 percent, but business has picked up since July, resulting in a rise ...
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News briefsRegatta to open second dual-brand store
Regatta will be opening a dual-brand store in Logroño, Spain, on Oct. 7, thanks to a deal with owner of the local Ferrer Sports store, according to CMDsport. A first dual-brand store opened two years ago in Salamanca through a deal with the local owner of an Enforma Deportes store. ...
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News briefsTernua opens “Brand House”
Ternua Group has opened a 110-square-meter “Brand House” in Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain, to display to the public representative products from its various lines. In addition, says CEO Jokin Umerez, “we’d like it to be a place we can show with pride to collaborators, visitors and professional customers from elsewhere in ...
