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Eurobike has announced a new look and slogan. The Eurobike...
Eurobike has announced a new look and slogan. The Eurobike Team worked closely with Steven Cook, creative director, and Daniel Lepik, motion designer, to develop a new style that features reduced lines, modern colors and a futuristic design, to represent the combination of reality with technical innovations. The organizers of ...
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With the new year, the heads of Bike Europe's editorial...
With the new year, the heads of Bike Europe's editorial team are switching roles. After more than 21 years in the post, Jack Oortwijn will hand over the position of chief editor to the magazine's younger, 50-year-old deputy editor-in-chief, Jan Willem van Schaik. Oortwijn, 63, will take over his position, ...
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Halford's bike sales go up, margins decline
Halfords' shares dropped by 2.4 percent after the British retailer posted underlying pre-tax earnings for its first half-year that were off by 9.8 per cent from the year-ago period to £36.8 million (€41.1m-$48.4m), weighed down by currency headwinds. The company estimates that it incurred an extra cost of sales of ...
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Suffering in particular from the increasingly popular bike sharing programs...
Suffering in particular from the increasingly popular bike sharing programs in China, Giant Bicycle reported a one percent drop in revenues to 14.9 billion Taiwan dollars (€420.1m-$495.3m) in the third quarter ended Sept. 30. The company performed better in Europe and the U.S., thanks to new models introduced in July. The ...
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A factory of BH Bikes in Aveiro, between Porto and...
A factory of BH Bikes in Aveiro, between Porto and Lisbon, has been involved in the wave of fires that have recently shaken the north of Portugal. The fire broke out in the facility during the night between Oct. 16 and 17. BH Bikes uses that factory for the assembly ...
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WiggleCRC has announced the acquisition of Bike24, a German online...
WiggleCRC has announced the acquisition of Bike24, a German online cycling retailer. According to The Sunday Times, who first reported the news, the deal is worth around £100 million (€112.6m-$131.7m). Bike24 will continue to trade as a separate business within the group. Bike24 posted revenues of €84.5 million in 2016. ...
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Northwave's bike products will be distributed in Switzerland by Bus...
Northwave's bike products will be distributed in Switzerland by Bus Sport, replacing Platts Europe
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A total of 42,590 professionals attended the Eurobike show that...
A total of 42,590 professionals attended the Eurobike show that started on Aug. 30 in Friedrichshafen, down slightly from 42,720 a year ago. An additional 22,160 bike fans participated in the Eurobike Festival Day at the end of the fair. More than 1,400 exhibitors occupied the fully booked halls. With ...
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Bianchi and Ferrari have presented the first bike resulting from...
Bianchi and Ferrari have presented the first bike resulting from their collaboration. The Scuderia Ferrari 01, or SF01, which is based on Bianchi's Specialissima carbon road bike, was introduced at Eurobike in Friedrichshafen, Germany. The latest edition of the trade show was held in Friedrichshafen, Germany from Aug. 30 to ...
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The German bike market is predicted to rise by 12%...
The German bike market is predicted to rise by 12% this year, with e-bikes taking over at least 65% of the turnover, up from 33% two years ago
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Pinarello has introduced the first electronic bike suspension system, in...
Pinarello has introduced the first electronic bike suspension system, in cooperation with HiRide
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Pinarello has presented its first electric mountain bike, the...
Pinarello has presented its first electric mountain bike, the Andromeda Hybrid 9.9, which uses the Shimano Steps E8000 series motor
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E-bikes boost Accell Group’s revenues
Accell Group's revenues inched up by 0.7 percent to €634 million in the six months to June 30, largely due to higher sales of electric bikes in Europe. Revenues increased by 3.0 percent over the year-ago period on an organic basis. However, net income was down by 22.0 percent to ...
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Interbike, the largest annual bike show in North America, has...
Interbike, the largest annual bike show in North America, has unveiled a number of new initiatives and changes for its 2017 edition. The Incubator, a new crowd-funding area, will feature the latest innovations for the bicycle industry on crowdfunding platforms such as Kickstarter. The purpose of the Incubator, which will ...
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Evoc has new brand ambassadors: Harald Philipp, a mountain biker...
Evoc has new brand ambassadors: Harald Philipp, a mountain biker from Tyrol; Teal Stetson-Lee, an American mountain biker and organizer of the “CrossReno Cyclocross Events & Music Festival” and Thomas Genon, a slopestyle-mountain biker from Belgium
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Eurobike is energized by e-mobility
Eurobike's organizers regard Derby Cycle's return to Friedrichshafen this year as an encouraging signal for the bicycle fair, as it continues to adjust to the e-mobility trend and prepares to shift to July dates as a trade-only event from 2018.Germany's largest bike maker had decided last year to give up ...
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Emerald Expositions, which owns Outdoor Retailer, Interbike and many other...
Emerald Expositions, which owns Outdoor Retailer, Interbike and many other trade shows, has completed the acquisition of the SIA Snow Show from the Snow Sports Industries Association (SIA) of the U.S., reportedly for $16.7 million, following approval by the SIA's board of directors. The takeover paves the way for a ...
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Gore is combining Gore Bike Wear and Gore Running Wear,...
Gore is combining Gore Bike Wear and Gore Running Wear, its two clothing brands, to form Gore Wear. The combination of Gore's cycling and running wear brands, which will be effective as of spring/summer 2018, is supposed to reflect the changing behavior of consumers, from specialists in one sport to ...
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Emerald Exposition Events, which owns Outdoor Retailer, Surf Expo, Interbike...
Emerald Exposition Events, which owns Outdoor Retailer, Surf Expo, Interbike and many other trade shows in the U.S., opened with a share price of $21.60 on the New York Stock Exchange today, giving it a market capitalization of $1.6 billion. The company and some of its shareholders started offering 15.5 ...
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Internetstores’ owner buys Probikeshop
The owner of Internetstores, the online retailer specializing in outdoor and cycling products, is expanding with the full acquisition of Probikeshop, a French company that describes itself as the leading online retailer of cycling gear in France and southern Europe. Internetstores itself was taken over last year by Signa Holding, the ...
