Accell Group Sees Sales Rise 32.5% Through June

HEERENVEEN, Netherlands (13 July 2000)–Accell Group, Europe’s third largest bicycle group, increased its turnover 32.5% in the first half of 2000 to EUR119.8 million. Profit in the first half of the year came to EUR1.8 million . “The move of demand from cheaper import bicycles to higher quality bicycles has continued in the past six