Jan-Willem van Schaik

HELSINKI, Finland - To grow its slow cycling business (-2% in 2015), Amer Sports Corporation has acquired ENVE Composites. Amer Sports reports that, "the US based company ENVE brings capabilities in carbon technology, and it offers operational scale and synergy benefits complementing our cycling category."

TAIPEI, Taiwan - The 2016 edition of Velo-city Global in Taipei will host two Industry Days where insiders such as Anthony Lo from Giant and John Burke from Trek will discuss the economics of cycling, the role of advocacy in growing the market and why we need successful policies to increase sales for everyone.

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Bike Europe and the bike dealer magazine for the Netherlands and Belgium, Tweewieler will be exhibiting at the 29th Taipei Cycle.

TREVISO, Italy - Italian road racing icon brand Pinarello will not exhibit at Eurobike 2016. That the company skips the biggest bike show in the world this year is due to "radically changed business strategies."

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Founded as a folding bike company five years ago, Tern is celebrating this anniversary with the introduction of a completely new bike line developed in collaboration with the Japanese design studio Kitt Design.

BUSNAGO, Italy - Steven Merlini who announced last December that it was time for a change after 21 years at Selle Italia, found a new challenge at the sales and marketing team of Prologo.

AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands - During the Dutch presidency of the Council of the European Union from January till June this year, the Netherlands aims to increase the number of kilometres cycled in Europe. Therefore Dutch embassies in cooperation with local stakeholders will organize a series of cycling activities.

TAIPEI, Taiwan - As part of the first ever Cycling Industry Club Advocacy Summit in Taipei the 'industry leader's panel' will focus on how the industry can build on that knowledge and work together to grow the market.

日本，大阪- Shimano在2015年財務業績摘要報告中表示歐洲高階與電動自行車相關的產品需求旺盛。儘管銷售量較低，Shimano仍持續在2015年達成兩位數的成長。自行車零組件的淨銷售額成長了14.6%為3140.1億日元(24.63億歐元)，其中營業和淨收入甚至以更大的數據成長。

美國，BIG FLATS-美國聯邦巡迴上訴法院對Stan's NoTubes和Specialized之間的長期鬥爭決定維持先前由審理暨訴願委員會的判決，也就是宣布Stan's NoTubes的美國專利是有效的。