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The French bike market keeps growing. It posted higher sales...
The French bike market keeps growing. It posted higher sales for the third consecutive year, driven by the double-digit growth of e-bikes. According to the French bicycle observatory, sales increased to 3,034,000 bikes sold in 2016. Sales passed the three million units for the first time since 2012. As for ...
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Giant is not the only Taiwanese bike company to be...
Giant is not the only Taiwanese bike company to be suffering from international competition. Merida's total sales outside Taiwan declined in volume by 26.9 percent to 1,601,623 units last year, according to Bike Europe, with a drop of 20.18 percent to 866,976 unit in the volume exported from Taiwan.
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Andrew Neethling is a new mountain bike ambassador for Scott...
Andrew Neethling is a new mountain bike ambassador for Scott Sports
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A 50 percent increase in sales of e-bikes, especially in...
A 50 percent increase in sales of e-bikes, especially in Europe, could not prevent Giant Manufacturing Co. from posting a drop of 5.57 percent in its global revenues to 53.09 billion Taiwan dollars (€1.64bn-$1.75bn). The major factor was a 20 percent decline in its bike sales in China, which are ...
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Carving will be distributing the bike and outdoor products of...
Carving will be distributing the bike and outdoor products of Dainese in Spain and Portugal, starting with the autumn/winter 2017/18 collections
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Sport Partner, Hike & Trekking, Bike & Trekking, E-Bike &...
Sport Partner, Hike & Trekking, Bike & Trekking, E-Bike & Trekking, The Right Size and other Dutch trade magazines are been published by a new company, 333 Media, following the bankruptcy in November of Maruba Sports & Travel Publishers. The new company was started by Maas van Drie, former owner ...
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Starting in 2017, Orica-Bike Exchange and its female counterpart, Orica-AIS,...
Starting in 2017, Orica-Bike Exchange and its female counterpart, Orica-AIS, will be called Orica-Scott, following the signing of Scott Sports as new co-naming rights sponsor of the two Australian cycling teams. Scott has been their sponsor since 2012, when they started competing under the GreenEdge name.
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E-bikes help Accell post higher sales
Sales improved for Accell Group in the third quarter, largely due to higher sales of electric bikes. However, the company did not release any exact figures for this quarter, but only provided a trading update. It said that higher discounts to reduce seasonal inventories of regular bikes put downward pressure ...
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Migros is reportedly considering opening its own bike stores next...
Migros is reportedly considering opening its own bike stores next year. The suggested name, SportXX Bike World, would seem to indicate that the new specialist stores will be somehow connected with Migros' mixed sports stores, SportXX, which already feature bike sections. The Swiss retailer has not yet confirmed the details ...
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Moscow hosted a new bike trade show called Bike-Expo in...
Moscow hosted a new bike trade show called Bike-Expo in September. The event started on Sept. 8 and took place at an exhibition hall in Sokolniki, just outside of the Russian capital city. The area features a large parking lot for cars and a dedicated metro station. It is also ...
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ZEG, the biggest cooperative of independent bike dealers in Europe,...
ZEG, the biggest cooperative of independent bike dealers in Europe, has announced that it will pull out of the Eurobike show in Friedrichshafen. It will invest more of its resources in the ZEG Bike Show in its home town of Cologne, opening it up to non-members. Its next show is ...
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Thule has introduced the new EasyFold XT bike carrier, an...
Thule has introduced the new EasyFold XT bike carrier, an evolution of the EasyFold. The mounting of the new EasyFold XT on the towbar is said to require minimum effort thanks to the innovative coupling. Once the bikes are loaded, the trunk of the car remains accessible thanks to a ...
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Eurobike suffered a 7 percent drop in the total number...
Eurobike suffered a 7 percent drop in the total number of daily visits by professionals, down to 42,720, at its 25th edition held in Friedrichshafen last month. A stronger decline was recorded among German trade visitors. The number of daily visits by consumers grew by 14,000 to 34,400 because of ...
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Garneau got the 2016 Eurobike Award for its DreamFactory program,...
Garneau got the 2016 Eurobike Award for its DreamFactory program, which allows the customization of bikes, clothing and helmets with input from the final user. He or she can pick the color of the bike and a vinyl decal for the helmet. Much of the work is conducted in North ...
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Bike Europe will be holding its first conference on supply...
Bike Europe will be holding its first conference on supply chain flexibility on Aug. 30, the day before the opening of Eurobike 2016, which will run from Aug. 31 to Sept. 4 in Friedrichshafen, Germany. The new conference, which is entitled “Supply Chain – Increased Speed to Market Conference,” will ...
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Shimano has announced that its recently expanded bike distribution center...
Shimano has announced that its recently expanded bike distribution center in Poznan, Poland, will also be used to deliver fishing tackle products to Polish dealers next year. Bike components and fishing tackle distribution will be combined under one organization effective Feb. 1, 2017. Until then, Normark Polska will continue to ...
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E-bikes pull up Accell Group’s revenues
Accell Group's revenues jumped by 10.0 percent to €629.7 million in the six months ended June 30, largely due to higher sales of electric bikes, which currently account for 43.0 percent of its total turnover. The Dutch holding company said that the growth was “entirely” organic. It came amid tough ...
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Garneau, the Canadian bike company, has launched a redesigned, mobile-friendly...
Garneau, the Canadian bike company, has launched a redesigned, mobile-friendly and content-rich website
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Halfords' bike sales resume their growth
Halfords saw revenues at its cycling division grow by 1.9 percent in the fourth quarter ended April 1. It was the second consecutive quarterly increase. However, the British retailer's sales of cycling products fell by 0.9 percent for the full financial year, and the company attributed the decline mainly to ...
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A larger and more centrally located section of the Interbike...
A larger and more centrally located section of the Interbike show in Las Vegas next Sept. 21-23 will allow up to 30 innovative European companies to exhibit in an updated turnkey booth area in order to enter the U.S. market for the first or second time. Last year, a smaller ...
