Jan-Willem van Schaik

ELLWANGEN, Germany - Varta Microbattery announced that their e-bike batteries like the CellPace and the VARad are no longer on the market. Why Varta withdraws from the e-bike market was not disclosed.

POZZOLEONE, Italy - Next month Selle Royal Group will disclose a new industrial plan to its shareholders outlining the main business strategy for the next 3 years. Selle Roal confirmed that the principal strategic lever of the plan will be product innovation.

HARTMANNSDORF, Germany - In 2015 the brand Diamant not only celebrated its 130th anniversary, but it was also very successful production wise. Last year the Trek owned facility in Hartmannsdorf, Germany produced over 150,000 bikes.

比利時，布魯塞爾- 比利時2015年女性車款和電動自行車的銷售增加使市場成長了3.2%。根據Velofollies自行車展所做的第三次年度市場調查顯示，去年總共賣出了450519輛自行車。

台灣，台北- 48件作品獲得評審團的青睞，得到了2016年台北國際自行車展創新設計獎。這48件作品中有5件將額外獲頒台北國際自行車展金質獎的殊榮。另有1件則是從新創企業中選出獲頒「金質獎-新創企業」之獎項。

德國，ENNEPETAL- 2016年一開始，Thun重新定義全球市場。Mario Stauber現在負責除了義、法、比荷盧市場外的歐洲OEM廠商。這些主要仍為Patricia Cochez的負責區域。

BRUSSELS, Belgium - Increasing sales of ladies bicycles and e-bikes result in a market growth of 3.2% in 2015 in Belgium. A total of 450.519 bicycles were sold last year according to the third annual market survey by the Velofollies cycle show.

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Some 48 entries convince the jury and will be handed over the Taipei Cycle d&i Awards 2016. Among them, five most outstanding products were granted a supreme honour, the Taipei Cycle Gold Award. Besides the five gold winners, the special award, 'Gold Award - Young Enterprise' has been selected among the start-ups with outstanding achievements.

ENNEPETAL, Germany - With the onset of 2016 global markets are being redefined at Thun. Mario Stauber is now in charge of European OEMs except Italy, France and the Benelux markets. These will mainly remain within the responsibility of Patricia Cochez.

NUNSPEET, the Netherlands - Shimano has identified a potential safety issue involving BR-C3000-R, BR-C3010-R and the BR-C6000-R rear wheel roller brakes, which were fitted to bicycles sold to consumers after 1 July 2015.