All Bike articles – Page 8
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Eurobike goes hybrid
Eurobike is going for a hybrid offline/online format. It will be a purely B2B event. The physical trade show will take place in Friedrichshafen from Nov. 24 to 26 instead of September. On the other hand, Messe Friedrichshafen will hold a digital conference on Sept. 1, calling it the “Bike ...
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ArticleAccell benefits from a strong bike market
The post-Covid bike market is going strong in Europe, as indicated by a business updated released by Accell Group, although it seems that the boom is mostly affecting bicycles used for transportation rather than sport, as indicated also by a recent report by the NPD Group on the bike market ...
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Italy registers booming bike sales
Bicycle sales in Italy have jumped by 60 percent since bicycle shops reopened after the lockdown on May 6, as compared to the same period of 2019. According to data released on June 9 by Ancma (Associazione Nazionale Ciclo Motociclo Accessori), the sector’s trade association, Italians bought 540,000 units in ...
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Schöffel diversifies into bikewear
Schöffel, which has been focusing on outdoor and ski clothing, is making its entry into the bicycle clothing sector with a dedicated collection for spring/summer 2021. Comprising 46 items for men and women, and divided into three segments – Gravel, Trail and Travel – it was developed by the German ...
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Swedish crash test of bike helmets yields strange results
Hövding was rated as the best bike “helmet” based on a series of crash tests conducted by a Swedish insurance company, Folksam. The second best one was a relatively cheap MIPS helmet from Biltema, a chain of car accessories. While Hövding’s head cover, called the Chief, is not really a ...
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Dorel rides well on higher demand for bikes
Dorel Sports, the bike division of Dorel Industries, is one of the few businesses that managed to grow through the pandemic. It registered revenues of $188.2 million for the first quarter, representing a 2.0 percent increase from the same quarter a year earlier, driven by strong performances at the Cycling ...
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Eurobike postponed, altered
As Germany has a ban on major events until Aug. 29, logistics will preclude opening the Eurobike show on schedule, just two days later, to run Sept. 2-5. Instead, there will be a one-off Eurobike Special show – a “pure B2B concept,” not open to the public – on Nov. ...
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Bikester opens store in Stockholm
Bikester opened its first brick-and-mortar Nordic shop in Stockholm on March 13. The 725-square-metre store is located at Uddvägen 5 in the Sickla shopping district. Internetstores, the German-based online retailer of bike and outdoor products which is Bikester’s parent company, said that the new physical store is part of the ...
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Bike Europe has a new senior editor
Bike Europe, the Dutch trade magazine, hired Rosie Burgin as senior editor last month. Burgin – who has also worked for Rosegarden Studios and 3 Circles Media – was formerly an editor at Reed Business Information and, most recently, at the agricultural publisher Misset. At Bike Europe she is succeeding ...
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Strong European e-bikes sales take Giant to record highs
The Giant Group reported a 5.3 percent increase in revenues to a record 63,449 million New Taiwan dollars (€1.9bn-$2.1bn) in 2019, boosted by the rising popularity of e-bikes, especially in Europe, where sales gained about 13 percent to NT$ 18,667 million (€571.6m-$617.4m). Collectively, the Taiwanese bike manufacturer’s brands - Cadex, ...
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Bookman, a Swedish company that offers functional headlights, bike lights...
Bookman, a Swedish company that offers functional headlights, bike lights and reflectors under the Bookman Urban Visibility label, has received an injection of SEK3.5 million (€330,000-$370,000) from three Swedish investors including Stefan Ytterborn, the founder of Poc Sweden. Founded in 2011 in Stockholm by Victor Kabo and David Axelsson, Bookman ...
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Amplifi, the German brand for snow, bike and outdoor protectors...
Amplifi, the German brand for snow, bike and outdoor protectors and accessories based in Oberstdorf, has brought in a new sales team for Austria, Germany and Benelux, starting with products for autumn/winter 2020/21. Amplifi's move is said to be meant to ensure the best possible service for customers, both B2B ...
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Selle Royal, the leading Italian supplier of bike saddles, has...
Selle Royal, the leading Italian supplier of bike saddles, has mandated UBS to help find a financial partner to accelerate its growth. The company is prepared to review preliminary offers in mid-February. Founded by the Bigolin family 60 years ago, Selle Royal sells saddles and other bike accessories under four ...
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Pon Bike has acquired Urban Arrow, a Dutch brand of...
Pon Bike has acquired Urban Arrow, a Dutch brand of electric cargo bikes. Pon has disclosed no financial details about the acquisition. Founded in Amsterdam in 2010 by Jorrit Kreek and Gerald van Weel, Urban Arrow operates in 20 countries and employs a staff of 60 at its headquarters and ...
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Eurobike, the European bicycle trade show held every September in...
Eurobike, the European bicycle trade show held every September in Friedrichshafen, has developed what it claims is the cycling industry's first dedicated digital platform. Conceived by Scholz & Volkmer, an agency in Wiesbaden that develops systems for devices with screens, Eurobike Connect aims to supplant Google as the industry's main ...
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Russia’s biggest bike producer weighs a project near the EU border
Russia's Velomotors, the biggest manufacturer of bicycles in the post-Soviet economic space, indicated a few months ago its intention to launch six to eight new production lines in the Kaliningrad Oblast – the country's exclave between Poland and Lithuania that was called Königsberg in Prussian times. The project would boost ...
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The Russian government begins tagging bikes
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has ordered the tagging of bicycles, including e-bikes, as well as bicycle frames. Like those already used for footwear since last year, the tags are RFID chips applied to products by their manufacturer or importer to trace their authenticity and origin. Special equipment is needed ...
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Maloja grows in the bike apparel segment
Maloja, the German brand of functional apparel with cool designs, has reported an increase of 50 percent in its sales in the bike segment in the first half of this year by comparison with the same period of last year. This year marks Maloja's first sponsorship of a continental bike-racing ...
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Accell Group has sold the e-bike development brands Protanium and...
Accell Group has sold the e-bike development brands Protanium and Diavelo to a new Swiss company. Protanium GmbH, based in Zurich and headed by Karin Vogelsanger as chief executive and managing partner, has been founded for this take-over. Protanium GmbH will continue to operate the Diavelo e-bike brand. The company ...
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E-bikes power Giant and Merida
Accell's results came after those of two Taiwanese competitors, Giant Manufacturing and Merida Industry, which also reported a steady growth of e-bikes sales during the first six months of this year. Last May, a Giant spokesman had announced that the company expected “a continuously robust” demand for electric bikes on ...
