OVS (company)

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

Company type	Public (S.p.A.)
Traded as	BIT: OVS FTSE Italia Mid Cap
Founded	1972; 53 years ago (1972)
Headquarters	Venice, Veneto , Italy
Number of locations	1822[1]
Area served	Worldwide
Products	Retail
Revenue	€1,017 billion (2020)
Website	www.ovs.it

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