All Spain articles
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News briefsColumbia opens two Spanish flagships
The brand is looking toward the country’s youth market.
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News briefsDecathlon to promote commuter cycling in Spain
The retailer has joined the Spanish Association of Brands and Bicycles and will help promote cycling as a diverse means of transport.
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News briefsChiruca parent to offset factory fire’s carbon
Calzados Fal will be resorting to its usual method.
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News briefsRevenues, income down at Snow Factory
The Iberian distributor’s revenue fell 2.3% in 2023 to €17m, marking its first drop in four years, with net income plunging 65%.
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News briefsCanyon Bicycles opens test center near Madrid
Canyon Bicycles has opened a test and community center in Tres Cantos, on the northern outskirts of Madrid. It is the first Canyon Factory Service (CFS) in Spain and the fifth worldwide. The location offers repair services, for both minor repairs and annual servicing, as well as bike advice direct ...
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News briefsGiant expands own-store network in Spain
According to CMDsport, Giant has opened a fifth own-store in Spain. This one covers 500 square meters, boasts a section devoted to women’s cycling and is situated in the island capital of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The brand believes it is sure to become a flagship in Spain, like its ...
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News briefsOrbea’s revenue down for the first time in 8 years
Orbea closed out full-year 2023 with its first drop in revenues in eight years, according to Palco23. Although the Basque cycling brand does not disclose them in full, sales appear to have come in at around €374.4 million, down by 6.4 percent from the previous year’s €400 million or so. ...
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ArticleWolfbike effects a shift to distribution
Business has been brutal as of late for Wolfbike, according to CMDsport. The manufacturer of bicycles has been operating in Valencia, Spain, for 14 years and has in that time put together a catalogue of 180 models. Because of the cycling industry’s boom and bust since the lockdowns, however, the ...
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News briefsThe North Face tries Barcelona again
The North Face (TNF) will be opening an own-store in Barcelona, according to TradeSport. It will cover 700 square meters at 121 Rambla de Catalunya – a site formerly held by Benetton. Intersport is next door. There is no set opening date, but the premises already display the TNF brand. ...
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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 ...
