SENNFELD, Germany - Accell Group's subsidiary Winora opened an all new 'Innovation & Service Center'. It houses the global innovation and technology center, sports headquarters, service, quality management and compliance departments.

MUNICH, Germany - The General Assembly 2020 of the World Federation Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI) elected its new board of directors, including two representatives of the bicycle industry. The WFSGI held its General Assembly 2020 last January 29 during the ISPO show in Munich, Germany.

Since February 3rd, 2020 Leury Kerpen has taken on the role of CSR Manager at Thun. At Thun he will establish clear structures of efficient sustainability management throughout the organizatio

BRUSSELS, Belgium - The cargo bike and cycle logistics industries represented via the international organizations Cycling Industries Europe (CIE) and European Cycle Logistics Federation (ECLF) have taken an active role in the development of the European standard for cargo bikes.

BRUSSELS, Belgium - Eurostat import figures for the first nine months of 2019 clearly point to the fact that Taiwan is working hard to take over China's role in supplying electric bicycles to EU countries. The industry of the island off the coast of China transformed successfully to e-bikes as it is 'electrifying' rapidly.

AMERSFOORT, the Netherlands - It took some time for this category to catch up with overall e-bike sales in Holland. But that's changing now and even to such an extent that a breakthrough is taking place for the e-MTB category.

OBERWANGEN, Switzerland - myStromer AG reports double-digit growth across its markets and the sale of over 12,000 speed pedelecs in 2019. According to a company statement, last year's sales exceeded targeted figures.

德國，巴德索登（Bad Soden）－源自中國的新冠肺炎對自行車及電動自行車產業的影響已越趨明顯，工廠停工及檢疫隔離措施已造成供應鏈中斷。這是德國產業協會ZIV向其會員進行調查後得出的結果，其中有超過八成表示由於貨物運輸延後，經濟活動趨緩。

比利時，布魯塞爾（Brussels）－鑒於該國嚴重侵犯人權及勞工權益，歐盟委員會於12日決定暫停柬埔寨EBA協議（Everything But Arms，《除武器以外一切都行》）中特定商品享有的關稅優惠待遇。EBA屬歐盟普惠制（GSP）的一部份，柬埔寨享有商品（包含自行車）出口至歐盟成員國家的免關稅待遇。

法國，Villeneuve-D'Ascq－運動用品零售巨頭Decathlon公開報告2019年銷售成長9%。營業額從2018年的113億歐元成長至去年的124億歐元。該大廠對於去年財務表現表示滿意，他們對於前年表示：「2018年是令人失望的一年。」

英國，雷迪奇（Redditch ）－Halfords報告顯示，截至1月3日的前14週，電動自行車及電動滑板車的銷售同比暴增96%，該類別佔Halfords總自行車銷售約13.5%。

BRUSSELS, Belgium - At an early February Symposium in Brussels titled: 'Symposium on Legal Status and Market Position of Speed Pedelecs' it appeared that there is rising pressure on the European Commission to include electric step-scooters in the type-approval.

SANTA CRUZ, USA - It says everything about the rapidly increasing popularity (and worldwide sales) of e-MTBs; the fact that even Santa Cruz now sells this type of Mountainbikes.

VILLENEUVE-D'ASCQ, France - The sports retail giant Decathlon reports an increase in sales of 9 percent in 2019. Turnover expanded from 11.3 billion euro in 2018 to 12.4 billion euro last year. Decathlon is very content with last year's financial performance as the company reported that "2018 has been disappointing".

REDDITCH, UK - In the 14 weeks to 3rd January 2020 Halfords reports a staggering jump of 96 percent year on year sales of electric bikes and e-scooters. This category now accounts for around 13.5 percent of total bikes sales at Halfords.

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BAD SODEN, Germany - The implications of the Coronavirus in China for the bicycle and e-bike industry is becoming more clear. Temporary factory closures and quarantine measures are causing supply chain disruptions, or even cause a complete standstill.

BRUSSELS, Belgium - Yesterday, the European Commission has launched a procedure to temporarily withdraw tariff preferences granted to Cambodia under the Everything But Arms (EBA) arrangement over concerns related to serious human and labour rights violations.