Like this it is Rakuten, the new global sponsor of the Barcelona

"MD" was the first half in confirming that Rakuten would be finally the main sponsor of the FC Barcelona of face to the next seasons, after having arrived to an agreement with the Barça in the last days. 

The known company of on-line trade has more 50 million users, and therefore it will be a focus more than visibility all over the world, improving no only the economic income of the club but also an image that had remained something damaged during the sponsorship of Qatar Airways.

In any case, is moment to know a bit more on the new sponsor global of the FC Barcelona, Rakuten, that probably will sponsor to the Barça until 2021 -for the moment- and that will report to the club some annual profits from among 50 and 60 million euros.

The executive director of the company is Hiroshi Mikitani, having founded the company in 1997. Seven after his foundation, in June of 2004, Rakuten already was the second more seen web of Japan, only surpassed by "Yahoo!", that had more monthly visits.

In 2005, the income of Rakuten surpassed the 1.100 million dollars with some profits of roughly 320 million dollars, and in the actuality ostanta a capitalisation of near market to the 5.000 million dollars, with more than 3.700 employees.

Between the services that offers Rakuten are the following:

• E-commerce: it possesses the on-line shop bigger of Japan.
• Credits and payments: it offers personal credits and mortgages.
• Portals and means, controlling web pages that have like utility exert of platform to find contents organised in Internet.
• Trips (Rakuen Travel): reservations of hotel and other tourist services.
• Security and services of on-line security.
• Sports to professional level: it administers and it sponsors to one of the teams of the league of Japanese baseball.

In definite, Rakuten is the web of sales bigger of Japan, and his users can purchase more than 18 million pertinent products of 18.000 distinct sellers. Also it offers available services to the foreigner, and does not leave to expand . To the FC Barcelona, without place to doubts, will come him well have like main sponsor of a company in heave, every time with greater income.