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.

HELSINKI, Finland - In line with the trend as in most other European countries, e-bike sales in Finland increased in 2019. Although the number of units is still relatively small, the total market volume increased spectacularly to 23,000 e-bikes last year.

MAGDEBURG, Germany - Urwahn Engineering GmbH - a spin-off of the Magdeburg University - is introducing a 3D-printed Chromo steel frame targeting the use in city e-bikes.

It is foremost about stability and reliability; about securing supply chains as well as being more cost effective, faster and more flexible. All that comes with close-to-market production; with production in Europe. And in particular with e-bike production. But making the switch to producing electric bicycles requires considerable investments. It calls for robotization wherever possible, needed for reaching a 90 seconds flow time. All this is transforming bike production in Europe that stands to quadruple in volume in the next five years.

台灣，台北－昨日上午台北自行車展宣佈將延期至5月14至16日舉辦的消息，業界對此的第一個反應皆認為這將大幅改變展會。除了規模、參展商數量及展地面積會有不同之外，該展也將一改以往總能會場上看到最新、最先進產品展出的特色。這場五月的商展將更著重於維護並加強廠商之間的合作關係並建起新橋樑。

德國，斯圖加特（Stuttgart）－多元通路的自行車及戶外用品零售商Internetstores GmbH公佈2019年銷售報告再次成長，銷售達3.73億歐元。該集團表示，自2017年開始，每年平均成長率皆超過30%，去年也是。

丹麥，哥本哈根（Copenhagen）－該國市場發展就如同許多目前正發生在其他國家的情，那就是常規自行車銷售滯緩、電動自行車銷售正火。丹麥市場從2018年到去年十月的情景正是如此。

25-year-old Kemal Özdemir strengthens Thun's sales team as the company's new Key Account Manager. He already joined the company in August 2017 as part of an apprenticeship programme which he recently completed successfully.

TAIPEI, Taiwan - The first reactions from industry sources on this morning's news that Taipei Cycle is postponed to May 14 to 16, 2020, is that it will bring major changes to the Show. Changes that go beyond size; the number of exhibitors and exhibition area.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark - The market development is the same as that which is currently happening in many other countries. Sales of regular bicycles are stagnating while e-bike sales are growing. That is the picture that the Danish market presents for 2018 and during the first ten months of 2019.