Grupo Avalco

What Grupo Avalco does

Grupo Avalco (legal entity: AVALCO Agrupación de Almacenistas de Fontanería y Climatización, S.L.) is a Spanish purchasing group (agrupación de compras) founded in 2001 and headquartered in Valencia, Spain, serving the plumbing, heating, air conditioning, bathroom, and pool sectors. It operates as a buying collective for SMB member stores/warehouses and professional installers, negotiating exclusive purchase conditions with 141 manufacturer brands and aggregating a digital catalog of more than 40,000 products. The company's revenue mechanics are based on a membership model in which affiliated stores gain access to manufacturer agreements, an internal intranet ("Intranet al Día") with continuously updated tariffs and an exclusive member forum, and two exclusive own brands — Korman (bathrooms, kitchens, pools) and Termat (heating, climate control, renewables) — that generate additional commercial margin for members.

The company's core technology is a centralized, continuously updated database designed to synchronize digital catalogs, e-commerce storefronts (avalcotienda.com), and professional sales systems for member stores. Complementing this, the Digitalización Platform extends Avalco's offering toward digital infrastructure provisioning for members, and the website indicates receipt of EU/PRTR digitalization funding supporting that buildout. Distribution runs through a national member-store network across Spain; Avalco itself does not sell to end consumers but channels products via its affiliated SMBs. Marketing combines content (website, newsletter, digital catalog), supplier fairs (Feria de Proveedores), and association presence via ANDIMAC, AMASCAL, and ANCECO. The company celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2026 and remains privately held with no disclosed parent, funding rounds, or M&A activity.

Name

Grupo Avalco

Legal name

AVALCO Agrupación de Almacenistas de Fontanería y Climatización, S.L.

Website

https://grupoavalco.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2001

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Grupo Avalco is a 25-year-old Spanish purchasing group serving plumbing, HVAC, bathroom, and pool member stores with negotiated supplier agreements, a 40,000-product digital catalog, member intranet, and exclusive own brands Korman and Termat.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Plumbing and HVAC Wholesale Distribution

NAICS

Management of Companies and Enterprises (551)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Specialty Membership Clubs (Category-Focused) (CRAEADAI)

Keywords

• Purchasing group services
• Plumbing wholesale distribution
• HVAC bathroom products
• Own brand bath fixtures
• Digital catalog platform

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Grupo Avalco is a Spanish purchasing group for plumbing, heating, air conditioning, bathroom, and pool sector professionals. It negotiates exclusive purchase conditions with over 141 manufacturers on behalf of its member stores, operates a digital catalog platform with 40,000+ products, provides digitalization services that synchronize members' e-commerce and sales systems, and distributes two proprietary brands: Korman (bathrooms, kitchens, pools) and Termat (heating, climatization, renewables).

Product overview

Grupo Avalco is a purchasing group for plumbing, heating, air conditioning, bathrooms, and pools in Spain. It operates through two exclusive brands (Korman for bathrooms, kitchens, and pools; Termat for heating, climate control, and renewables), a digital catalog platform with over 40,000 products from 141 brands, a digitalization service for synchronizing e-commerce and sales systems, and an intranet platform with manufacturer rates and catalogs. Associates benefit from competitive purchasing conditions through manufacturer agreements.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Korman: Exclusive brand redefining baths, kitchens and pools sector, combining avant-garde aesthetics with technical innovation for unique and functional spaces.
• Termat

Products and services

• Korman

Quantifiable outcome

• Digital catalog offers over 40,000 products from 141 brands
• +1 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Others

• Würth Group: Global B2B distribution group with a tightly integrated direct-to-tradesman model. Adjacent to Avalco in serving professional trades via decentralized branches, but operates as a single corporate group rather than a member-owned purchasing group.
• ANDIMAC: Spanish national association representing installers and distributors of building materials. Avalco is itself publicly affiliated with ANDIMAC, making it an ecosystem/industry-body counterpart rather than a commercial peer.

Broad incumbents

• Bricomart / Obramat: Spanish professional-focused big-box retailer for building materials and finishes. Operates as a direct competitor channel to Avalco's independent member stores in Spain, particularly in bathrooms and finishes.
• Travis Perkins: UK building materials merchant with significant plumbing and HVAC exposure through sister brands. Comparable professional customer base and plumbing/HVAC category overlap, though as a single vertically integrated retailer rather than a member-driven group.
• Ferguson Enterprises: Largest North American distributor of plumbing, HVAC and related products. Comparable end-market focus on plumbing/HVAC professionals, but at vastly greater scale and as a vertically integrated distributor rather than a purchasing group.
• La Plateforme du Bâtiment (Saint-Gobain): Saint-Gobain's drive-through building materials distribution chain serving trades in France and Iberia. A much larger incumbent competitor in the same plumbing/HVAC professional distribution space Avalco serves via members.

Direct peers

• Alliance Habitat: French purchasing group for independent building/habitat merchants. Operates the same cooperative buying model Avalco does, aggregating independent store volume to negotiate with national and international brands.
• CEF (City Electrical Factors): UK buying group/franchised network for electrical contractors. Operates the same cooperative-purchasing-with-shared-services model as Avalco, but in the electrical vertical; structurally the closest model analog in the UK trade distribution landscape.
• BigMat: Pan-European cooperative purchasing group for independent building materials merchants. Closest structural analog to Avalco: aggregate independent store purchasing power, negotiate supplier agreements, and provide shared services to member companies.
• Hagebau: German cooperative purchasing group for building materials and DIY trade. Comparable model of independent specialist stores pooling volume with shared supplier agreements, marketing and digital infrastructure.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/grupo-avalco

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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