Jo Beckendorff

MILPITAS, USA - Californian Arevo presented a world's first custom monocoque carbon 3D printed bicycle frame at Eurobike 2019. Initially Avero partnered with small local bicycle supplier. Avero has now introduced its owns bicycle and e-bike brand called Superstrata.

BOCHOLT, Germany - Omnichannel bicycle distributor Rose Bikes GmbH announced a trading model cooperation with the country's largest sports store known as Engelhorn Sports. Next August, Rose Bikes will open a shop-in-shop at Engelhorn's huge sporting goods retail store in Mannheim, Germany.

MANILA, the Philippines - Giant Manufacturing is considering to invest in a new production facility in the Philippines. This was reported yesterday by the national daily newspaper 'Manila Standard'. "Initial talks from last year provided a good lead to investments," said Philippine Trade Undersecretary Ceferino Rodolfo. "From what we have discussed so far, they said they are interested."

REUTLINGEN, Germany - Bosch eBike Systems sees the corona crisis as a challenge for politicians to resolutely drive forward the long-discussed mobility turnaround. The German mid-motor drivetrain supplier calls for the expansion of urban bicycle infrastructure as the corona crisis made clear that, "bicycles and e-bikes play an increasingly important role in modern individual mobility."

SAMUT PRAKAN, Thailand - Bicycle manufacturer Raja Cycle Co., Ltd. is located in Thailand's second largest city, Samut Prakan, 35 kilometres southeast of Bangkok. Next to its export business, which mostly rolls towards Europe, the Thai assembler is using its capacity also for its own Optima and Meadow brands. Up to now Optima and Meadow are only offered on the company's home and neighbouring ASEAN markets.

WIESBADEN, Germany - On the occasion of the World Bicycle Day on 3rd June, the German Federal Office for Statistics (Destatis) announced some interesting national retail data, including bicycle retail sales figures. Destatis compared March 2020 with April 2020 sales. In comparison with other retail sectors IBDs are definitely on the sunny side of life.

VIENNA, Austria - With a Corona-related delay, the Austrian Association of Sporting Goods Manufacturers and Sports Equipment Suppliers (VSSÖ) presented its latest year 2019 bicycle and e-bike statistics. It can be best expressed in the crisp short formula, 'units down, value up'.

MUNDERFING, Austria - In a move to give the company's fast-growing e-mobility segment even more clout, on 25 February 2020 Austrian Pierer Mobility AG (former KTM Industries AG) established Husqvarna E-Bicycles GmbH as a wholly-owned subsidiary with headquarters in Munderfing, Austria.

GIVISIEZ, Switzerland - Due to the corona-pandemic Scott Sports SA's e-commerce business reports a strong 48 percent (YTD) website traffic increase. On the back of this impressive number, the Swiss multi-sports company announced further e-commerce targets. Scott plans to expand its strategy "continuously interlocking consumers, retail and the brand" into further key markets - meaning that more consumers will soon be able to order products 24/7 online.

BOCHOLT, Germany - Despite corona-conditioned restrictions in March, traditional German D2C-supplier Rose Bikes GmbH achieved - compared with the first six months of the previous fiscal year 2018/2019 - a double-digit sales growth of over 20 percent in its first half of its from 1 November to 30 April running fiscal year 2019/20. This, according to the company, led to total sales of 56.7 million euro.