OVS (company)

OVS
Company type	Public (S.p.A.)
Traded as	BIT: OVS
Founded	1972; 52 years ago
Headquarters	Venice, Veneto, Italy
Number of locations	1822
Area served	Worldwide
Products	Retail
Revenue	€1,017 billion (2020)
Website	www.ovs.it

OVS (formerly Oviesse) is an Italian clothing company. It has stores in 35 countries in Europe, Latin America and Asia with a total of about 1285 locations. Revenues were €1.32 billion in 2015.^[2] It is the largest clothing retailer in Italy, accounting for about 5% of the national clothing retail market.^[3]

OVS was founded in 1972 as Organizzazione Vendite Speciali (special sales organization), a division of Coin, an Italian department store chain.^[3]^[4] The company remained a subsidiary of Coin Group until 2015, when an initial public offering (IPO) took place.^[5]

Locations

Locations by country
Country	Stores
Albania	6
Andorra	2
Armenia	4
Austria	13
Azerbaijan	3
Bosnia and Herzegovina	4
China	19
UK	5
Cyprus	7
Croatia	10
Costa Rica	4
Estonia	2
France	3
Georgia	9
Greece	9
Iran	4
Italy	911
Kosovo	5
Latvia	2
Lithuania	5
Moldova	1
Montenegro	8
North Macedonia	1
Peru	18
Poland	2
Portugal	3
Romania	1
Saudi Arabia	13
Serbia	9
Slovakia	2
Slovenia	19
Spain	49
Thailand	3
Tunisia	3
Ukraine	5

References

^ "OVS S.P.A. sustainability report 2020" (PDF). ovscorporte.it. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
^ "Store locator | OVS S.p.a." www.ovs.it. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
^ ^a ^b "Cosa è successo a OVS". Il Post. 18 September 2014. Retrieved 6 December 2016.
^ "Storia | Ovs S.p.a." www.ovscorporate.it. Retrieved 6 December 2016.
^ "Ovs e Upim in Borsa per ridurre il super debito di Coin". Repubblica.it. 14 February 2015. Retrieved 6 December 2016.