FC Barcelona initiated an administrative procedure on Thursday before the Mercantile Registry of the City of Barcelona to close the "merger by absorption" of Barça Vision into Barça Media. Thus, the club will manage all its digital assets through the parent company that, until now, had been responsible for the azulgrana audiovisual production, as well as eSports and the Barça Games platform, along with Barça One.
The measure aims to simplify its corporate structure, while enhancing the development of everything related to the metaverse, web3, NFTs, fan tokens, and other technologies that not only allow for generating new sources of income but also improve the experience of Barça fans in terms of technology and entertainment. In the official statement announcing the merger, the club details who the current investors of Barça Vision are, officially named Bridgeburg Invest SL.
Barça Clarifies the Financial Division of Barça Vision
Among them are Blaugrana Invest (18.96%), Vestigia (4.93%), Hellgas (14.73%), Orpheus Media (1.83%), and Aramark (6.13%). The partners approved the sale of 49% of the shares of Barça Vision in October 2021, a measure that was ratified a year later despite the defaults from Orpheus, socios.com, and Libero Football. Regarding this, the club assures that "the unpaid amounts in the Consolidated Annual Accounts for the 2023/24 season have already been provisioned in the azulgrana budget".
So far, Barça has only collected 65 of the 200 million euros it is supposed to receive from the operation. To facilitate the arrival of new investors, the club has integrated everything related to this asset, valued at 408 million in the accounting books, into Barça Media. While the board does not resolve the pending payments, the club will continue to have problems with financial 'Fair Play', even being back to the 1:1 rule.