Jan-Willem van Schaik

POZZOLEONE, Italy - Saddle manufacturer Sello Royal puts greater effort into trade marketing activities in order to improve the brand's presence in stores. "Our objective is to help dealers to increase the performance of their saddle business and ultimately the customer experience in the shops," says Selle Royal.

POSCHIAVO, Switzerland - Repower, a Swiss manufacturer and distributor of green electricity, recently displayed the latest addition to its electric mobility ecosystem called Homo Mobilis.

TALINN, Estonia - Driven by high demand for internet-of-things (IoT) devices for electric scooters and bikes Comodule recently opened its own factory near its headquarters in Tallinn, Estonia. It enables the company to produce up to 20,000 telematics devices per month.

OSAKA, Japan - Is Shimano advancing further on the e-bike market with a new technical development? The company filed an application at the US Patent Office for a gearbox in combination with an e-bike mid-motor.

MONTREAL, Canada - Dorel Sports including Cycling Sports Group showed a strong third quarter performance; like in the 2nd quarter. Between July and October, revenues increased by 14.2 percent.

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Bicycle component manufacturer Glory Wheel Ent. and bicycle production machinery manufacturer Shuz Tung are two examples out of the bicycle industry of the total of 151 companies from a wide variety of sectors that applied for support at the Taiwan government to return their production from China.

NEUSTADT A/D WEINSTRASSE, Germany - Thomas Seifert joined the management team of Sigma-Elektro GmbH as CEO. Thomas is known in the sports and cycling industry as Managing Director of Polar Electro GmbH Germany. He held this position until the end of 2017.

SUZHOU, China - Yesterday, Bafang Electric (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. debuted on the main board at Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE). 30 million Bafang (BFGF) shares (stock code: 603489) were issued on the capital market, accounting for 25 percent of the total share capital after release.

REDDITCH, UK - Halfords has announced its interim results. In retail, cycling sales grew, recording like-for-like growth in cycling sales of 0.2 percent which the group attributes to "performance ahead of expectations in the last six weeks (of the period) as well as continued strong growth in e-bikes and kids bikes.

MILAN, Italy - The first production ready carbon frame made by printing in one piece was launched yesterday by Atala in Italy. Accell Group, who owns 50 percent of Atala's shares, selected this Italian company to launch this groundbreaking production technology.