Fnac Darty: The latest figures, news and market research on Fnac Darty

Turnover: 7.9 billion EUR (2023)

Country: France

Major French group active in the distribution and sale of multimedia, electronic and bookstore products
In the course of the 2000s, Fnac created a "Photo Service" which enables its customers to benefit from online software for personalizing and creating postcards or greeting cards, which they can then order for printing and pick up in Fnac stores in France.
In this way, Fnac competes directly with other manufacturers and publishers of postcards and greeting cards, which Fnac also sells in its stores.
Darty is a distributor of home appliances, video and sound equipment with over 460 stores

april 16, 2021 - Fnac Darty in figures - source(Capital)

FNAC Darty to launch takeover bid for Italy's Unieuro on Monday 30/08/2024

FNAC Darty, which already holds a 4.4% stake in Unieuro, announced in mid-July its intention to buy the Italian chain of 500 electrical goods stores.
Unieuro controls 17% of the Italian market, with a presence concentrated in the north and center of the country, the wealthiest areas.

FNAC Darty in the running to take over its Italian counterpart 17/07/2024

- Unieuro is valued at 249 million euros as part of the takeover bid launched by FNAC Darty.
- FNAC Darty already holds a 4.4% stake in Unieuro, and is aiming for 90%.
- Unieuro has 500 stores and around 5,000 employees.
- Unieuro's sales in 2023 were €2.6 billion, with 14% coming from online sales and net income of €44.5 million.
- After the operation, FNAC Darty would target sales of over 10 billion euros and 30,000 employees, controlling the market in France, Italy, Belgium, Spain and Portugal.
- FNAC Darty's sales outside France could approach 50% of total sales.

Retail Media: Fnac Darty points of sale also become media outlets 31/05/2024

- Retail media sales in 2023 in France: Over 1 billion euros.
- Retailink (Fnac Darty's advertising network) sales in 2023: 90 million euros.
- Total sales for Fnac Darty in 2023: 7.88 billion euros.
- Number of unique visitors per month to the Fnac Darty website: 16.3 million.
- Number of unique visitors who may be exposed to Fnac Darty advertising outside the site: 12 million.
- Number of screens in Fnac stores: 1,500 in 450 stores.
- Total number of stores in the Fnac network: 987.
- Percentage of screens in Fnac stores equipped with trackers to measure advertising audience: 25%.
- Amazon: 38.5 million unique visitors per month.
- Cdiscount: 23.8 million unique visitors per month.
- Fnac Darty: Over 16 million unique visitors per month.
- E. Leclerc: 15.7 million unique visitors per month.
- Carrefour: 14.5 million unique visitors per month.

FNAC Darty increasingly driven by services 23/02/2024

- FNAC Darty sales in 2023: 7.9 billion euros, down 0.9
- Services account for 15% of group sales
- Darty Max subscription reaches 1.1 million subscribers, an increase of 300,000 subscribers over one year
- Target of 2 million subscribers for Darty Max by 2025
- Group repaired 2.5 million products in 2023
- Joint venture with Ceva, "Weavenn", aims to generate 200 million euros in sales and a double-digit operating margin within 5 years

Fnac Darty completes acquisition of MediaMarkt in Portugal 08/10/2023

Fnac Darty has announced its intention to acquire Media Markt in Portugal
Media Markt has 10 stores in Portugal.
The company has 450 employees.
Media Markt's sales in its 2021-2022 financial year were around €140 million.
The acquisition consolidates Fnac Darty's position as number two in the Portuguese market.
Media Markt's activities in Portugal will be 100% consolidated in Fnac Darty's accounts from October 1, 2023.

Fnac Darty joins forces with CMA to better compete with Amazon and Cdiscount 06/10/2023

The Fnac Darty group and Ceva plan to set up a joint venture, Weavenn, offering comprehensive logistics services to e-retailers and connecting them to any marketplace.
Ceva, a subsidiary of CMA CGM, has sales of €16 billion in 2022, including €3 billion in France.
Ceva has 23 warehouses and a total of 90 sites in France.
The future joint venture will initially target the 3,000 third-party sellers of the Fnac-Darty marketplace, representing 20% of the group's online sales volume.
from 2025, Weavenn will target all e-tailers.
Fnac Darty and Ceva estimate that the sales of their joint venture could reach 200 million euros within 5 years.
Ceva's pending acquisition of Bolloré Logistics could make Ceva the world's fifth-largest logistics player, with sales of $24 billion.
Fnac Darty's network of stores includes 1,000 points of sale for click-and-collect parcel collection.
The European e-commerce logistics market is estimated at 80 billion euros, with annual growth of 10%.

Carrefour wants to compete with Mirakl, the marketplace specialist | Fnac Darty fights Mirakl 06/10/2023

Fnac.com and Darty.com account for 21% of Fnac Darty Group sales.
Third-party merchants on these sites account for 20% of the group's online business.
fnac Darty recorded a net loss of 163 million euros in the first half of 2023.
Ceva Logistics, Fnac Darty's partner, achieved sales of $19 billion in 2022.
Ceva has 1,300 logistics sites in 170 countries.
Fnac Darty has 1,000 stores for order collection.
The e-commerce logistics market is estimated at $80 billion.
The market for the creation of marketplaces is estimated at $30 billion.

Fnac Darty returns to international expansion 21/04/2023

FNAC Darty acquires 10 MediaMarkt stores in Portugal, 142 million euros in sales
Portuguese subsidiary FNAC Darty: 35 FNACs, 6 PC Clinic repair centers, 1 Nature & Découvertes and 1 e-commerce site
Total sales of Portuguese subsidiary: 370 million euros .

The small high-end appliance craze 21/02/2023

Value sales of small electrical appliances in France exceed 2019 levels by 10%
500,000 robot vacuum cleaners purchased in 2022 (+8.4% in value vs. 2021)
Growth in sales of air purifiers (+9.5%), mobile radiators (+24.7%) and fans (82.1%).
80% of households own a hair dryer
42% of households own an electric toothbrush
Sales of major household appliances stabilized in 2022 around their historic level of 6 billion euros