AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands - Yesterday, Pon Bike finalized the acquisition of Urban Arrow. This Amsterdam based Dutch electric cargo bike brand has seen fierce growth in recent years.

OSAKA, Japan - Is Shimano advancing further on the e-bike market with a new technical development? The company filed an application at the US Patent Office for a gearbox in combination with an e-bike mid-motor.

BRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Union has published an extremely critical report in which it warns Cambodia that it has not taken enough steps to prevent a loss of its special trade privileges, noting particularly "further deterioration" of its human rights record since a review process was launched nine months ago. C

SCHWEINFURT, Germany - Last September the board of directors of KTM Industries AG already proposed to change its name to Pierer Mobility AG to end the confusion on the company and brand name with KTM Fahrrad GmbH.

CLOPPENBURG, Germany - Kalkhoff has responded immediately to last Tuesday's announcement by Continental AG that it will stop the development and production of Continental e-bike drive-systems in 2020.

MONTREAL, Canada - Dorel Sports including Cycling Sports Group showed a strong third quarter performance; like in the 2nd quarter. Between July and October, revenues increased by 14.2 percent.

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Bicycle component manufacturer Glory Wheel Ent. and bicycle production machinery manufacturer Shuz Tung are two examples out of the bicycle industry of the total of 151 companies from a wide variety of sectors that applied for support at the Taiwan government to return their production from China.

NEUSTADT A/D WEINSTRASSE, Germany - Thomas Seifert joined the management team of Sigma-Elektro GmbH as CEO. Thomas is known in the sports and cycling industry as Managing Director of Polar Electro GmbH Germany. He held this position until the end of 2017.

德國，漢諾威（Hannover）－Continental Bicycle Systems GmbH & Co KG對其客戶告知將從電動自行車市場退出，該公司在前一天已先對約百位員工宣佈了這個決定。不過他們新款48V Revolution和48V Prime驅動系統的最後工程進度將不中斷，該產品會在2020年第一季逐步淘汰。

中國，蘇州－Bafang Electric (Suzhou) Co., Ltd.前日首次於上海證券交易所（SSE）上市，發行了3000萬股（BFGF，股票代碼：603489），佔發行後總股本25%。 開盤價為人民幣43.44元（5.62歐元），並於第一天上漲43.99%到62.55元（8.09歐元）。

義大利，米蘭（Milan）－Atala上週在義大利開始進行首批以打印整體成形的碳纖車架生產。Accell Group擁有Atala百分之五十的股份，他們選擇以該義大利品牌來發表這項創新生產技術。

台灣，台北－要出席明年國際台北自行車展的專業參觀者請注意，現在已開放登記報名。據主辦單位貿協表示，這次參觀者將能看到比以往多更多的參展商數量。「2020年台北自行車是通往蓬勃亞太市場的途徑，也已成為領先供應商接觸售後市場及OEM的重要會展。」

Today, Continental Bicycle Systems GmbH & Co KG is informing its customers that it is pulling out of the e-bike market. Yesterday, the company announced this decision to its staff of about 100 employees. While for the time being final engineering work on the company's new 48V

SUZHOU, China - Yesterday, Bafang Electric (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. debuted on the main board at Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE). 30 million Bafang (BFGF) shares (stock code: 603489) were issued on the capital market, accounting for 25 percent of the total share capital after release.

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia - It's about 3D printed bike frames, but not in carbon. Aluminium frames made by using the so-called "Direct Metal Laser Sintering" (DMLS) technology is the name of this all new technology.

REDDITCH, UK - Halfords has announced its interim results. In retail, cycling sales grew, recording like-for-like growth in cycling sales of 0.2 percent which the group attributes to "performance ahead of expectations in the last six weeks (of the period) as well as continued strong growth in e-bikes and kids bikes.

BEIJING, China - It will bring enormous relief in both the United States as well as in China; this morning it was announced that the Trump Tariffs are to be phased-out.