The company covered by this profile
Decathlon España, S.A.U., tax identifier A79935607, is the Spanish sporting-goods distribution company belonging to the French Decathlon group. Its registered office is at Parque Comercial Alegra, Calle Salvador de Madariaga, Dehesa Vieja, 28702 San Sebastián de los Reyes, Madrid. The Decathlon brand identifies an international business; this profile focuses on the Spanish entity and explicitly identifies information that relates to the wider group. Decathlon Spain legal identity and registered office (p. 1). Decathlon Spain 2025 non-financial statement (p. 7).
From Badalona to omnichannel retail
Michel Leclercq developed the concept of bringing different sports under one roof; the group opened its first store in Englos, France, in 1976. The Spanish company was incorporated in Madrid in 1991, and its first store opened in Badalona on 28 October 1992. Incorporation and the start of the store network’s trading activity are separate milestones. Decathlon Group history: origins in 1976. Decathlon Spain 2025 non-financial statement (p. 7). Thirty years of Decathlon in Spain.
The corporate timeline dates the first Martorell logistics centre to 1997, the launch of Spanish online sales to 2008 and the marketplace to 2021. Since 2024, changes to stores and brand identity have introduced specialist areas, circular services and closer integration between physical and digital retail. 2026 corporate presentation: history and brands (p. 11). Decathlon Spain 2025 non-financial statement (pp. 10–13, 57–58).
Ownership and management: Spain and the group
The non-financial statement identifies Decathlon Spain as a single-shareholder public limited company belonging to Decathlon S.E. The group’s ESG report describes family and employee shareholders. This establishes group membership, but is not used to assign particular percentages of the Spanish subsidiary’s capital to families or employees. Decathlon Spain 2025 non-financial statement (p. 7). Decathlon Group 2025 ESG report (pp. 12–15).
The Spanish results announcement dated 30 June 2026 identifies Borja Sánchez as CEO of Decathlon Spain. At worldwide level, the 2025 ESG report names Julien Leclercq as board chair and Javier López as group CEO. Spanish management and worldwide management have different remits. Decathlon Spain 2025 results, 30 June 2026. Decathlon Group 2025 ESG report (pp. 12–13).
Products, brands and services
Decathlon combines the development and distribution of its own products with sales of third-party brands. Its range includes clothing, footwear, bicycles, equipment and accessories for numerous sports. The brand structure presented in 2026 includes Quechua for mountain sports, Tribord for water sports and sailing, Kipsta for team sports, B’Twin for cycling and urban mobility, Rockrider for mountain biking and Domyos for fitness. 2026 corporate presentation: history and brands (p. 29). CNMC: report on the Intersport asset transaction (pp. 6–7).
Expert brands also include Simond, Van Rysel, Kiprun and Solognac. These are group brands and commercial categories, rather than additional Spanish companies whose sales should be added together. Repairs, maintenance, rentals and buybacks extend the business beyond selling new equipment; the marketplace includes external sellers’ offerings. 2026 corporate presentation: history and brands (p. 29). Decathlon Spain 2025 non-financial statement (pp. 56–58).
Stores and logistics network in 2025
The 2025 non-financial statement reports 176 stores and six warehouses in Spain, with a retail presence in every autonomous community, Ceuta and Melilla. It describes four regional and two continental logistics centres, employing more than 1,470 people. The continental remit of some logistics operations does not turn shipment volumes into additional sales. Decathlon Spain 2025 non-financial statement (p. 11).
During 2025, 83 stores were modernised and 22 specialist cycling areas and 24 running areas were created. These areas are located within stores and should not be counted as separate new outlets. The figure of 176 relates to financial year 2025, rather than the precise network operating in November 2026. Decathlon Spain 2025 non-financial statement (p. 11).
Net turnover and GMV
For the full 2025 financial year, the subsidiary announced net turnover of €1,990 million, up 7.19%, and gross sales or GMV of €2,342 million, up 8.1%. This profile uses the net figure announced for Spain as its financial selection measure. GMV measures a different commercial volume and is neither added to revenue nor treated as profit. Decathlon Spain 2025 results, 30 June 2026.
The same announcement reports EBITDA of €148 million, net profit of €84 million and investment of €40 million. These are rounded amounts from a corporate announcement: EBITDA is distinct from net profit, and the non-financial statement does not replace a complete set of audited annual accounts. No reconciliation of GMV, VAT and marketplace activity is constructed where the announcement provides none. Decathlon Spain 2025 results, 30 June 2026.
Employment and training: scope matters
The non-financial statement puts average 2025 headcount at 11,298 people: 5,688 men and 5,610 women. This is an annual average, rather than a full-time-equivalent figure or the number of newly created jobs. The organisation combines store, logistics and support-service roles. Decathlon Spain 2025 non-financial statement (pp. 31–32).
The statement’s training table records 233,516 hours: 20,806 for directors, 62,738 for middle managers and 149,972 for employees. The results announcement mentions more than 270,000 hours without reconciling the difference. This profile retains the tabulated non-financial-statement figure and its scope; neither figure is presented as hours devoted solely to occupational safety training. Decathlon Spain 2025 non-financial statement (p. 41). Decathlon Spain 2025 results, 30 June 2026.
Innovation in stores and services
The digital changes described for 2025 combine a redesigned website, coordination between online purchases and collection, and electronic shelf labels deployed across the Spanish network according to the results announcement. Online activity accounted for 15.1% of reported sales. These are documented operating changes; the sources do not quantify associated savings, safety improvements or productivity gains. Decathlon Spain 2025 results, 30 June 2026. Decathlon Spain 2025 non-financial statement (pp. 57–59).
The non-financial statement describes product-comparison areas, order collection, secure cash-payment facilities and spaces dedicated to circular services. It also records a digital solution with Comerso to manage a second life for products unsuitable for sale. Its stated function is to organise that process; it does not by itself demonstrate that every product has avoided becoming waste. Decathlon Spain 2025 non-financial statement (pp. 27, 58).
Repair, rental and second-life services
Circular services cover equipment repairs, bicycle maintenance, rentals and the resale of used items. In Spain, the company reported 143 in-store workshops and 575,000 products repaired during 2025. Circular sales represented 3% of reported turnover, growing by 25%. These are service-activity indicators, rather than a complete measurement of avoided environmental impact. Decathlon Spain 2025 results, 30 June 2026.
The non-financial statement describes subscription rentals for children’s and adults’ bicycles, including electric bikes, and daily kayak and paddleboard rentals in summer. Availability depends on the product and service; describing the business model does not establish that every option is offered at every store. Decathlon Spain 2025 non-financial statement (p. 57).
Environment: actions and measurement limits
The Spanish non-financial statement records three new photovoltaic installations under PPAs in 2025, taking the total to 30, and transport initiatives using HVO and electric vehicles on five routes. It also mentions replacing plastic film with cardboard for inter-warehouse transport and using straps to reduce strapping materials. The 2026–2030 emissions-reduction plan was drawn up in 2025; its future measures are not presented as achieved results. Decathlon Spain 2025 non-financial statement (pp. 25–26).
The results announcement attributes 53.2% of sales to products developed using an ecodesign approach. This is Decathlon’s reported indicator and criteria, rather than a universal environmental certification for those products. The Spanish figure should also be kept separate from group-wide emissions or renewable-energy percentages at supplier factories. Decathlon Spain 2025 results, 30 June 2026.
What makes prevention specific to Decathlon
From an editorial assessment of its activities, prevention needs to connect public-facing stores, replenishment, unloading, logistics preparation and repair workshops. Handling products of different sizes, moving between sales and storage areas and carrying out technical work require process-level assessment as well as building-level checks. Specific accidents are not attributed to these tasks where the report provides no breakdown. Decathlon Spain 2025 non-financial statement (pp. 11, 38, 57).
The company’s evidence reflects this diversity: Decathlon reports general and process-specific assessments, ergonomic reviews, store audits, coordination with service providers and emergency drills involving employees and customers. These measures document preventive working arrangements; their existence alone does not prove that every risk is controlled. Decathlon Spain 2025 non-financial statement (p. 38).
Assessments and controls documented in 2025
According to the non-financial statement, general and process-specific assessments were updated at 100% of stores, with implementation follow-up. Random visits checked implementation of the ergonomic assessments updated in 2024. The company reports 53 internal retail audits and self-assessment tools at other workplaces. The 100% figure concerns updated assessments at stores, rather than ISO certification across the organisation. Decathlon Spain 2025 non-financial statement (p. 38).
The report also records an accident-prevention protocol, stretching before unloading and the fifth annual emergency-drill day. Stretching is described as one reported measure; it does not replace assessment and redesign of physical demands, and no causal link is asserted between stretching and the decrease in accidents. Decathlon Spain 2025 non-financial statement (p. 38).
Accidents: figures and comparability limits
Decathlon Spain reports 374 lost-time occupational accidents in 2025, compared with 436 in 2024; the 374 include 117 commuting accidents. The text additionally mentions 23 recurrences and describes the 2025 accidents as minor. It records 243 accidents without lost time, compared with 305 in 2024. The sex breakdown totals 188 men and 186 women, or 374. Decathlon Spain 2025 non-financial statement (pp. 38–39).
The presentation of recurrences warrants care: the text lists them separately, while the table heading refers to accidents and recurrences but retains a total of 374. No alternative total is produced by adding them, and no LTIFR is calculated. Working hours and a fully reconciled numerator definition are missing. These Spanish-company data do not establish an absence of harm among contractors or workers at group supplier factories. Decathlon Spain 2025 non-financial statement (pp. 38–39).
Mental health, equality and employment relations
The non-financial statement says psychosocial risk assessments were ongoing and sets 2026 as the target year for covering 100% of sites. That target is not treated here as verified completion. The healthy-workplace project includes nutrition, physical activity, healthy habits and ergonomics; wellbeing initiatives complement prevention and do not themselves establish that organisational risks have been eliminated. Decathlon Spain 2025 non-financial statement (pp. 38–39).
The company collective agreement covered 100% of employees in 2025. The report records the second Equality Plan signed in 2023, anti-harassment procedures and the first LGTBI Plan in 2025. As a subsequent update, the BOE of 26 October 2026 published partial amendments to the ninth collective agreement covering fixed-discontinuous contracts, paid leave, and suspension of employment for childbirth, adoption or fostering and breastfeeding. These documented arrangements are distinct from judicial assessments of specific employment practices. Decathlon Spain 2025 non-financial statement (pp. 40–42). BOE: October 2026 amendment to Decathlon’s collective agreement.
Contractors and the supply chain
In Spain, the non-financial statement describes coordination with service providers working at company sites and their inclusion in its safety policy. That section does not publish a separate table of contractor accidents and working hours. The company’s own accident record is therefore not extended to those businesses or interpreted as quantitative coverage of the whole supply chain. Decathlon Spain 2025 non-financial statement (p. 38).
At a different reporting scope, the 2025 worldwide vigilance plan describes social audits of referenced production suppliers, covering safety, fire, working conditions and labour rights, alongside corrective action plans. It acknowledges suspending the supplier rollout of Whispli in 2025 after implementation at seven suppliers, to improve training, deployment and alert handling. This distinction avoids portraying a system still under review as complete. Decathlon Group 2025 vigilance plan (pp. 22, 49).
Trade-union rights: the 2026 court decision
The Supreme Court’s official case-law review summarises its judgment of 15 January 2026, appeal 239/2024, confirming that Decathlon Spain infringed CCOO Servicios’ trade-union rights. It records refusals concerning electronic communication facilities, noticeboards, information and union time allowances, and confirms €30,000 in compensation and a separate €3,000 fine for vexatious conduct in the proceedings. The source is the court’s official synopsis; the ruling is not generalised to every site or every employment relationship at the company. Supreme Court: 2025–2026 social case-law review (p. 66).
Intersport assets: conditional authorisation
On 25 June 2026, the CNMC conditionally authorised the acquisition of control over 18 Intersport assets grouped into business units in Tenerife, Fuerteventura and Puigcerdà, within insolvency proceedings. Its analysis identified concentration risks and barriers to access to premises, particularly in Tenerife. CNMC: report on the Intersport asset transaction (pp. 5–7). CNMC: Decathlon/Intersport assets decision, 25 June 2026 (p. 1).
The decision includes divestments, removal of exclusivity provisions and communication duties towards landlords and interested competitors, as well as conditions governing enforceability. Conditional authorisation does not demonstrate that all stores began trading as Decathlon or that divestments were completed. This profile retains the 2025 network as a historical figure and does not automatically add the 18 assets. CNMC: Decathlon/Intersport assets decision, 25 June 2026 (pp. 8–12).
How the information has been scoped
The annual baseline is 2025, with identified updates from 2026. The Spanish non-financial statement complements the group ESG report. On 25 June 2026, PwC issued a limited-assurance conclusion covering information identified in the statement’s cross-reference table; its work excludes information incorporated in the group consolidated report and additional content outside the specified scope. That verification is not presented as a financial audit or a comprehensive performance guarantee. Decathlon Spain 2025 non-financial statement (PDF pp. 2, 81–83).
Material differences between sources, such as training hours, remain visible, while unreconciled percentages and rates without denominators have been avoided. The photograph shows an Alegra store in November 2016 and documents its historical appearance; it does not establish present working conditions, property ownership or a commercial relationship with Sabentis. Decathlon Spain 2025 non-financial statement (p. 41). Decathlon Spain 2025 results, 30 June 2026. Decathlon at Alegra photograph: authorship and licence.
Frequently asked questions
Which entity is covered?
Decathlon España, S.A.U., tax identifier A79935607, registered in San Sebastián de los Reyes. Worldwide group data are identified separately. [1] · [2]
What was its 2025 turnover?
The official Spanish announcement reports €1,990 million in net turnover and €2,342 million in GMV. This profile selects net turnover; the two measures are not added together. [1]
Who leads Decathlon Spain?
The results announcement dated 30 June 2026 identifies Borja Sánchez as Spain CEO. Javier López is listed as worldwide group CEO in the 2025 ESG report. [1] · [2]
What accident data does it publish?
The Spanish statement records 374 lost-time accidents, including 117 commuting accidents, and 243 without lost time in 2025. It separately cites 23 recurrences; the presentation does not support a reconciled additional total or an LTIFR. [1]
Are the 18 Intersport stores added to the 2025 network?
No. The CNMC’s June 2026 decision imposes commitments and conditions, including divestments. It does not establish that all assets were integrated as Decathlon stores. [1] · [2]
Does PwC’s verification cover all group data?
No. Its limited-assurance conclusion concerns the Spanish supplementary non-financial statement within its specified scope. It does not replace a financial audit or extend to all worldwide information. [1]
