All Bike articles – Page 13
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Eurobike to add one more consumer day
Eurobike will add a second day open to the public in 2016, in view of the European consumers' growing interest in bicycles. Messe Friedrichshafen, which organizes the trade show, made the announcement on Aug. 29, at the closing of this year's edition. In 2016 the event will be held from ...
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Assos of Switzerland, the well-known maker of bikewear from Lugano,...
Assos of Switzerland, the well-known maker of bikewear from Lugano, has changed ownership. The founding Maier family has sold its shares to a pool of investors led by Phil Duff, the former chief executive of Black Diamond, the U.S. brand of outdoor and snow sports equipment. Duff will reportedly take ...
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The Italian bike market recovered last year. After a drop...
The Italian bike market recovered last year. After a drop suffered in 2013, sales of bicycles to the various retail channels increased by 6.4 percent to 1,644,600 units in 2014, thanks apparently to an improving economy and greater participation in the sport. Sales of e-bikes were stagnant at 51,156, in ...
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The consumption of bicycles and bike-related products grew in Spain...
The consumption of bicycles and bike-related products grew in Spain by 6.6 percent in 2014 to a value of €1,354 million, according to a study commissioned to Sport Panel by Ambe, the Spanish bike industry association. Sales to all retail channels grew by 8.1 percent to €549 million, with multi-sport ...
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Bike Europe reports that exports of bicycles from Taiwan jumped...
Bike Europe reports that exports of bicycles from Taiwan jumped by 13.9 percent in volume to 1,475,000 complete bicycles for the first four months of this year. After several years of stagnation, the value of these exports advanced by 10.1 percent to $599 million, although the average value per exported ...
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Interbike, the U.S. bicycle trade show, is offering a new...
Interbike, the U.S. bicycle trade show, is offering a new turnkey booth section at the fair for European brands seeking to enter the U.S. market. The EU@Interbike section will accommodate up to 20 brands at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas in September. The organizers said that the ...
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A young Swiss bike producer, Bold Cycles, has presented a...
A young Swiss bike producer, Bold Cycles, has presented a model with “Internal Suspension Technology” where the suspension is fully built into the seat frame
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Trek Bicycle has become the official bike partner of the...
Trek Bicycle has become the official bike partner of the Tour de Suisse under a three-year partnership deal negotiated by Infront Ringier Sports & Entertainment
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Bike sales increase in France, with double-digit rise for e-bikes
Bicycle sales in France increased in both volume and turnover in 2014, with e-bikes confirming the strong positive trend of the previous year. According to the observatory of French industry organizations, FPS (Fédération Professionnelle des entreprises du Sport et des loisirs) and Univelo, the total value of the bike and ...
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Electric bikes drive Accell’s expansion
Electric bikes again fueled sales growth last year at Accell Group, the Dutch bicycle company with brands from Batavus to Sparta, Raleigh and many more. Favorable weather conditions supported the group's performance, which was driven by its Dutch and German brands.Accell lifted its sales by 4 percent to €882.4 million, ...
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Muriel Bouhet, a French mountain bike racer, will endorse Polar...
Muriel Bouhet, a French mountain bike racer, will endorse Polar over the next few years
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The Riverside Company is investing in Bike24, the German cycling...
The Riverside Company is investing in Bike24, the German cycling e-commerce specialist. The private equity firm focuses on acquiring growing businesses valued up to $250 million and has an international portfolio of more than 75 companies. The details of the deal were not disclosed. Bike24 sells an array of bike ...
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Gore Bike Wear is going to work more closely with...
Gore Bike Wear is going to work more closely with the Rose Vaujany Mountain Bike Team, whose seven members include Steffen Thum, winner of the UCI Marathon World Series. Gore has been sponsoring the team since last year. It will try to develop specific clothing for mountain bike cyclists, who ...
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Another new regional bike fair in Spain, Girona Bike World,...
Another new regional bike fair in Spain, Girona Bike World, is planned for May 1-3
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Bike popularity is still growing in the Netherlands
The distance the Dutch have been traveling within their country over the last ten years has remained more or less the same, around 11,000 kilometers per person per year. However, the distance traveled on bikes has increased by 7 percent since 2004, according to the Mobility Survey 2014 of the ...
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VeronaFiere is starting a new Italian bike show called CosmoBike,...
VeronaFiere is starting a new Italian bike show called CosmoBike, which is set to take place in Verona on Sept. 11-14, 2015. The international event, created by Paolo Coin, who previously ran ExpoBici, will focus on the ongoing evolution of the bicycle, including new materials and production technologies, and will ...
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Dorel’s bike segment rises by 6%
Dorel Industries' Cannondale Sports Group (CSG) enjoyed strong growth in the U.K., the rest of Europe and Japan, contributing to a 6 percent organic sales increase for the third quarter in Dorel's bicycle group, which also includes the more mass-market-oriented Pacific Cycle segment. In reported dollars, the Recreational/Leisure segment of ...
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The fourth edition of Asia Bike in Nanjing, China, saw...
The fourth edition of Asia Bike in Nanjing, China, saw a substantial growth in trade visitors. The trade show is organized as a joint venture with Messe Friedrichshafen, the host of the German OutDoor and Euro Bike shows at Lake Constance. Asia Bike ran from Oct. 9-12, with the first ...
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Unibike, the new Spanish bike fair coming out from the...
Unibike, the new Spanish bike fair coming out from the combination of Festibike and Expobike, celebrated a successful start at its first edition in Madrid, presenting some 500 brands through more than 200 exhibitors on 15,000 square meters of exhibition space. The first day was only for trade visitors
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Last month's Eurobike show in Friedrichshafen welcomed a total of...
Last month's Eurobike show in Friedrichshafen welcomed a total of 46,300 visitors from 111 countries, 1,100 more than the 2013 edition. It also signed up 1,852 journalists. On Saturday, when the show opened its doors to the general public, 21,100 consumers visited the fair.
