PRZASNYSZ, Poland - The Polish bicycle manufacturer Kross, which produces its own brands Kross, Le Grand and Multicycle, aims to double its annual turnover of almost one hundred million euros in the next three to five years.

BAD SODEN, Germany - In the past ten years, the German e-bike industry developed a successful system to collect waste e-bike batteries.

義大利，波佐萊奧內（Pozzoleone）－Selle Royal Group已留UBS作為其金融合作夥伴。該義大利私人公司聲稱是坐墊及自行車零配件的全球領先高階品牌，依據目前股東及管理階層所決定的策略原則，目標是加速公司成長發展。

荷蘭，杜廷赫姆（Doetinchem）－Bike Europe十月於網站刊登報導－「Giant熱銷60萬電動自行車」，本社因此更積極深入了解，電動自行車市場的極限在哪？

越南，胡志明市（Ho Chi Minh）－DLG（上海）Electronic Technology Co.上月新設一座工廠，專產電動自行車、電動機車、摩托車及能源儲存系統使用的電池組。DLG設置越南廠的主要目的是降低貿易風險及製造成本以改善產品競爭度。

POZZOLEONE, Italy - Selle Royal Group has retained Swiss UBS for finding it a financial partner. The privately-owned Italian company that claims to be the world leader in premium branded saddles as well as bike parts and accessories, is aiming for an acceleration of its growth.

HO CHI MINH, Vietnam - Last month DLG (Shanghai) Electronic Technology Co. has opened a facility for making battery packs for e-bikes, e-scooters and motorcycles as well as energy storage systems.

BRUSSELS, Belgium - Urban e-bike start-up Cowboy SA announced an investment round via British crowdfunding platform Crowdcube. The brand's community of approximately 45,000 registered fans can step in exclusively as of today via the company's website. The crowdfunding campaign for the public will start on 12 December.

MILTON KEYNES, UK - Major UK 'click and collect' retailer Argos recently confirmed today that it will join the Bicycle Association's Cycling Market Data Service.

DOETINCHEM, the Netherlands - 'Giant To Sell 600,000 E-Bikes This Year.' It was this report, published last October at Bike Europe's online platform, bike-eu.com, that triggered our desire to dig deeper into the basic question of how big is the biggest in e-bikes? Could that be Giant?

THE HAGUE, the Netherlands - Industry organizations BOVAG and RAI in the Netherlands expect a huge boost for the country's e-bike market in 2020 and the years after.

PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Eight quite large cycling competition events in one weekend day and 1.2 owned bicycle per head of the population; the Czech Republic is the most "cycling-as-sport" avid country in Europe!

CORK, Ireland - Mapil Topco, owner of internet only giant WiggleCRC, has posted a pre-tax loss of GBP 132.5 million (€ 157m) for the trading period of the 52 weeks to December 30th 2018. The suffered loss is despite the fact that sales at the group rose 15 percent to GBP 453 million (€ 537m) with underlying profits of GBP 14.2 million (€ 16.8m).

德國，坦納（Tanna）－Continental於11月中將退出電動自行車市場，同為Extra Energy總經理及自行車電動化主義者的Hannes Neupert，將此歸咎於汽車供應鏈因轉換至電動汽車遭受龐大壓力。他表示這導致企業在生存的壓力之下做出不明智的決定，與電動自行車市場並無關係。他說：「這塊市場還在幼稚園階段，就像1995年的手機市場一樣。」

保加利亞，普羅夫迪夫（Plovdiv）－保加利亞最新出現的電動自行車廠商為Cross Ltd，該公司近期於蒙塔納（Montana）新設電動自行車生產廠。Leader 96 Ltd在2017年中在Plovdiv附近設立了該公司第二座自行車工廠。除了Leader 96和Cross bike，該國自行車產業還包含其他四間製造商。他們正將保加利亞變成歐洲下一座「自行車谷」（bike valley），該國電動自行車出口正迅速成長。

保加利亞，索非亞（Sophia）－該國首座鋁合金車架工廠的開幕對保國自行車谷來說是很重要的。他將繼波蘭和葡萄牙後成為歐洲第三個擁有專屬鋁合金車架工廠的國家。這座新的Cycle Gets工廠若全面營運，年產能將達20萬輛。

台灣，台中－台中週是否在與Bike Europe打對臺？還是說會看似如此，是因為台中週像美國的自行車展會一樣，在銷售季期間發表新年度的首發系列而將舉辦日期提前了？事實上是主辦單位很早就確定明年台中週的日期了，才會和明年Eurobike的日期有點衝突到。

TANNA, Germany - Mid November Continental announced to pull out of the electric bike market. Extra Energy MD and longtime bike electrification activist Hannes Neupert blames that on the automotive supply chain being under severe pressure due to the switch to electric cars.