Jan-Willem van Schaik

HEERENVEEN, the Netherlands - Accell Group N.V. intends to appoint Ruben Baldew, currently financial director of Unilever Thailand, as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and member of the Board of Directors. Ruben Baldew will succeed Hielke Sybesma, who left Accell Group in May of this year.

VERONA, Italy - Cosmobike Show is announcing major conceptual changes as well as the date of the event. Immediately after the 2017 edition the show organisation already announced the evaluation of the existing show concept. As a result the 2018 edition, which was planned for early September has been cancelled.

Eurobike organizer Messe Friedrichshafen has decided to reschedule the 2019 show back to the original date: Wednesday, 4 September to Saturday, 7 September. "The request expressed by numerous market players to move Eurobike to a later date in future

Initially the Taiwanese electronics manufacturer entered the market with BESV and Votani branded e-bikes but as part of a shifting market approach, Darfon announced at Eurobike to shift its focus to develop and produce batteries and electronics for e-bikes. Darfon's new

It is known that e-bike batteries do pose a risk of fire, but when a full e-bike warehouse goes up in flames you have a serious problem. Last Tuesday some 300 people living in the vicinity of the Stella e-bike and battery warehouse which was on fire had to be evacuated

Accell Group increased its minority stake in Velosophy B.V. from 35 to 100 percent. Velosophy, owner of among them Babboe, is a fast-growing innovative player in e-cargo bike solutions for consumers and the business market.

德國，福吉沙芬(Friedrichshafen)－儘管自行車市場因歐洲（尤其德國）對電動自行車的需求提升而轉趨熱絡，但參觀全球規模最大自行車展會的人數並沒有因此上升。造成參觀人數從去年的42,590下滑到今年的37,379有兩大主因，一個是為了提升參觀者素質而針對IBD參觀登記的新政策，另一個是展期提前。

比利時，根特(Gent)－電動自行車傾銷案調查已進入新的階段。有兩家歐洲電動自行車進口商向歐洲法院提出申請，要求撤除歐委會對中國進口電動自行車實施進口登記的法規。

While the bicycle market is in a positive mood thanks to growing demand for e-bikes in Europe and Germany in particular, the biggest bicycle show on earth did not manage to keep up the number of visitors. The reason for the decline in the number of Eurobike

GENT, Belgium - The e-bike dumping investigation entered an all new phase as two European e-bike importers filed an application for annulment of the Commission Regulation imposing the registration of imports of electric bicycles from China with the EU General Court.