Jets Marivent was founded in Spain by Oliver Fröls and Javier Martinez as a specialist in PWC, importing Kawasaki and Yamaha Jet Ski’s into Spain from Germany and later on directly from the US. The company started selling wholesale to a small number of dealers from a small room in an apartment block in Madrid. They personally delivered all of the PWC to the customers, sometimes after 72-hour drives to pick up the units in Germany.

Kawasaki made Jets Marivent official dealer in Spain. Just one year later the company was their nº1 dealer, selling almost 50% of all Kawasaki’s in Spain.

Yamaha appointed Jets Marivent official dealer and within a short time became one of Yamaha’s top European dealers. With two factory dealerships and special buying terms which reflected the volumes the company was selling, the company started appointing Jets Marivent dealers and creating its own dealer network.

To be nearer to the coast the company moved to Port Ginesta, situated a few kilometres south of Barcelona.

The first year of cooperation between Jets Marivent and Bombardier Incorporation, a Canadian company well known for their quality products with a strong presence in the PWC market worldwide, but almost unknown in Spain at this time. From now on Jets Marivent fully concentrates on SEA•DOO in Spain.

The company took an important step towards future growth by welcoming Sergio Alvaro, former Sales Director Yamaha Spain, as the company’s third partner. Soon Jets Marivent once more became the market leader in PWC, this time with Sea-Doo– a position that the company have kept up until now.

The first subsidiary was opened in Madrid. In the beginning it was only Sergio working there but soon more people joined and the Sales Department grew stronger.

Together with Bombardier Jets Marivent took on the challenge of including sport boats to the product line and started selling the Celebrity boats which was an immediate success.

Years of hard work were recognized when Bombardier awarded Jets Marivent “Best world-wide distributor 1998”.

The company took over the Bombardier SEA•DOO distributorship for an additional 10 European countries: The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, Hungary, Switzerland, Austria, Andorra and Morocco.

A second subsidiary opened in Wermelskirchen, Germany.

Jets Marivent celebrated its 10th anniversary.

Awarded “Best worldwide distributor 1999” by Bombardier for the second year in a row.

Jets Marivent opened its third branch office, located in Neunen, in the South of Holland to cover the Benelux and Germany area.

Manuel Piñera joined the company as a financial, non-active partner.

Soon after Bombardier started producing their first model of ATV in 1999, Jets Marivent was awarded distributorship for BOMBARDIER ATV’s for Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Spain.

Jets Marivent was awarded distribution in Great Britain and Ireland for all products. In record time the company opened a subsidiary in the south of England with 14 people, and moved to new facilities in June.

Jets Marivent opened its second German office in Hockenheim, whereas the other German office moved to Burscheid.

A range of small, high quality inflatable boats was brought to the market and the company started offering attractive packs with two and four-stroke Johnson outboard motors.

The company also introduced its on-line B2B system for Parts & Accessories, improving its service and efficiency.

At the beginning of the year Jets Marivent launched their new RIB line, putting together exclusive packages with Evinrude E-TEC™ engines, the latest Outboard engine technology from Bombardier.

A new web site was launched with a much more attractive presentation, a refined dealer search locator and with lots of more updated information.