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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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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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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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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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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 accelerates with e-bikes, pulls out of Canada
Surging sales of electric bicycles in Europe boosted revenues for the Dutch company behind Haibike, Lapierre, Batavus, Raleigh and many other bike brands. Its turnover picked up pace in the second half of 2019, soaring by 7.4 percent to €682.6 million.The company's so-called core businesses, which exclude its North American ...
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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 ...
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EU anti-dumping duties on Chinese bikes are due to stay
Protecting its bike industry better than the U.S. and Japan are protecting theirs, the European Union has levied anti-dumping duties on bicycles originating in China since 1991. The EU is set to maintain them for another five years, now that the European Commission has completed and published its 12-month review.Parties ...
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Danny MacAskill, the mountain-biker known for combining urban and outdoor...
Danny MacAskill, the mountain-biker known for combining urban and outdoor styles, has signed a sponsorship deal with Adidas Outdoor. MacAskill has been wearing Adidas' Five Ten shoe brand for about a decade, but Adidas has decided to stop using the Five Ten brand name, and the athlete will now be ...
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The Pon Bike Group sold a total of 720,000 bikes...
The Pon Bike Group sold a total of 720,000 bikes and saw its revenues increase by 14 percent to around €786 million in 2018. Sales were primarily driven by e-bikes, which accounted for around 50 percent of the bicycles sold. Pon's portfolio of bicycle brands comprises Cervélo, Gazelle, Santa Cruz, ...
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Technogym presented Bike Personal, a new design bike, at the...
Technogym presented Bike Personal, a new design bike, at the International Furniture Fair which took place on April 9-14 in Milan. Bike Personal, designed by Antonio Citterio, is the latest product from Technogym's Personal Line, a collection of products for home wellness, characterized by a combination of technology and ...
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E-bikes and fishing lift Shimano’s sales
Just as in 2018, robust sales of components for e-bikes in Europe and strong sales of fishing products globally boosted Shimano's results for the first quarter of 2019. The company's net income soared from 1,091 million yen (€8.7m-$9.8m) in the first quarter of 2018 to ¥13,384 million (€107.5m-$119.9m) this quarter, ...
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E-bike sales in Germany jumped by 36 percent in 2018...
E-bike sales in Germany jumped by 36 percent in 2018 as compared to 2017, reaching 980,000 units sold. This means that one out of every four bicycles sold in the country was an e-bike. These figures, among others, were contained in the latest report of the Zweirad-Industrie-Verband (ZIV), the German ...
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RTE, a Portuguese bike manufacturer that works only for Decathlon,...
RTE, a Portuguese bike manufacturer that works only for Decathlon, operating the biggest European bicycle assembly plant in Europe, has announced that it will open a bike manufacturing facility in Poland in 2021. The group already makes between 1.2 and 1.4 million units a year for Decathlon in Portugal. The ...
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E-bikes imported into the European Union (EU) from China will...
E-bikes imported into the European Union (EU) from China will be subject to tariffs varying between 18.8 and 79.3 percent, according to a filing in the EU's official journal. The measure is meant to curb the imports of cheap e-bikes from China, which may threaten the sales of pricier e-bikes ...
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There will be no Interbike show in Reno, Nevada as...
There will be no Interbike show in Reno, Nevada as planned next September. The organizer of the major North American bike trade show, Emerald Expositions, justified the move with a difficult market for bicycles in the U.S. over the past four years, compounded by substantial increases in U.S. import tariffs ...
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The EU imports more bikes from China and Cambodia
The number of regular bicycles imported from China to the European Union continues to rise. For years the number had remained flat at 350,000 to 400,000 units, but 2017 saw a big increase to 635,000 units. Bike Europe noted that by the end of the first half of 2018, imports ...
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A high-caliber leader for Rossignol’s bike segment
Scott Rittschof has been named senior vice president of the Rossignol Group in charge of its growing bike division, which includes Rossignol bikes as well the Time Sport and Felt brands. He is joining the group with an impressive cv.Rittschof worked for Dorel Industries' Cycling Sports Group (Cannondale, GT, Schwinn) ...
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Eurobike's organizers have teamed up with counterparts in Thailand to...
Eurobike's organizers have teamed up with counterparts in Thailand to set up a new trade fair targeting the cycling business in South East Asia. Aseanbike powered by Eurobike will be held for the first time next year, over three days starting on Oct. 3, at the Impact Exhibition and Convention ...
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The Accell Group has launched a German entity, Accell Bike...
The Accell Group has launched a German entity, Accell Bike Parts, which will drive the international expansion of the XLC brand of parts and accessories, Bike Europe reports. Accell Bike Parts will be part of the Winora Group, which is a German subsidiary of the Dutch-based group. Accell has formed ...
