Barcelo expects 633 million euros in revenues in current season

Barcelo, Sep 15: FC Barcelo hopes to earn revenues worth 633 million euros ($716 million) and a net profit of 20.2 million euros ($23 million) according to its budget for the 2015-16 season.

The budget, already approved by its board of directors, will be presented to the Assembly of Delegates, scheduled for the October 24-25 weekend, for fil approval by the members, reports Efe.

The board also introduced some changes in the executive organisatiol structure.

This includes the setting up of a macro-level business department headed by Francesco Calvo, former sales mager at Italian club Juventus FC, who will now be FC Barcelo’s new commercial director.

Calvo will work to promote FC Barcelo’s sales units, the Asian and American offices in Hong Kong and New York, the exploitation of the stadium and facilities, marketing and strategy, audio-visual media and e-commerce, licenses and merchandising and its football and basketball schools and camps.

The Austrian Arno Trabesinger will be the new mager of the American office in New York and the German Pancho Schroder will be the new director of the corporate area, responsible for administration, human resources, systems, innovation, purchasing and operations. IANS