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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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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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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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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-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 ...
