TAICHUNG, Taiwan - In its 2015 financial statement, Giant Manufacturing Co Ltd reports that, "While sales at home, the US and in Japan were solid last year, they declined 17 percent year-on-year in China. Due to the depreciation of the euro, sales in Europe improved only slightly."
SHEFFIELD, UK - Massive investment in cycling follows successful trials for major UK outdoor equipment retailer, including in-store workshop and personalised fitting.
TAIPEI, Taiwan - The Energy Bus organization that has been initiated by Extra Energy's Hannes Neupert has received a multi-million investment from a private investor. The money is to be used to develop further a charging/locking cable for e-bikes as well as charging posts.
荷蘭，阿姆斯特丹- 2015年電動自行車的銷售大幅成長讓荷蘭許多自行車業者大吃一驚。總共大幅增加了24%，總數量達27.6萬輛。同樣在德國，2015年電動自行車的銷售也有兩位數的大幅成長。
荷蘭，HEERENVEEN- Accell Group今天宣布將Seattle Bike Supply的美國零配件經營賣給一家總部位於美、加的零配件公司Hawley-Lambert。
比利時，BERINGEN- 超過400人參加了上星期五的Flanders自行車谷新建物啟用典禮。這裡最引人注目的當然就是自行車專用風洞了。然而，此自行車谷尚不止於此。
日本，大阪- 在預見UCI最終仍會批准在職業公路車賽事上使用碟煞系統，Shimano擴展其油壓碟煞系統產品到Tiagra系列上。先前Shimano已經推出了Ultegra、105變速系統的油壓煞車系統和Sora機械式碟煞系統，同時未經證實的消息指出下一個產品將會是Dura-Ace公路車專用的油壓碟煞系統。
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands - It astonished many in the Dutch bike sector; the huge growth in electric bicycle sales in 2015. That growth amounted to a big 24% to 276,000 units. Also in Germany e-bike sales showed a big double-digit growth in 2015.
BERINGEN, Belgium - Over 400 people attended the opening of the new building of Flanders' Bike Valley last Friday. The big eye-catcher here is of course the bike dedicated wind tunnel. However, this bike valley is more than that.
ZÜRICH, Switzerland - Last weekend the largest Swiss city launched the first Urban Bike Festival. Thanks to the attractive mix of exhibition, test options, competitions and shows, public interest surpassed initial expectations.
HOLLY RIDGE, USA - The majority of the electric bicycles sold in the USA last year were imported from China or Taiwan. There are some local assembly operations, with the largest one being Prodecotech in Florida. The others are very relatively low volume.
HEERENVEEN, the Netherlands - Accell Group today announces that it sells the USA parts & accessories activities of Seattle Bike Supply to Hawley-Lambert, a P&A company based in the USA and Canada.
ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands - Next Monday April 4 Media Markt, Europe's largest retailer for consumer electronics with over 700 stores in 14 countries, will start with the sale of electric bicycles in The Netherlands. For this the retail chain unsuccessfully tried to engage one or more top e-bike brands. Media Markt kicks off with a private label. The start in The Netherlands is a pilot that, when successful, is to be extended to all countries that have Media Markt stores.
OSAKA, Japan - Anticipating on UCI's final approval to allow disc brakes in professional road racing, Shimano extends its hydraulic disc brake range to Tiagra. Previously Shimano already introduced Ultegra and 105 hydro brakes and Sora mechanical disc brakes while unconfirmed sources state that Dura-Ace road-specific hydraulic disc brakes will be next.
ROSSANO VENETO, Italy - Are major changes about to take place in bicycle saddles? Are foam covers a thing of the past? And is consolidation setting in? Looking at what is going on at Selle Italia this is about to happen and is even already taking place.
SURSEE, Switzerland - Hostettler Group reports the acquisition of Bike-Mailorder GmbH & Co. KG with immediate effect. According to Swiss based Hostettler, "Bike-Mailorder is one of Germany's leading webshops". Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
TOKYO, Japan - For the second year on a row, the Japanese bicycle market is declining in volume. Value-wise however, production and import are reaching new highs. This contrasting development is rooted in the depreciation of the Japanese yen. Also, made in Japan e-bikes contributed to the rising value of the bike production and import.
荷蘭，阿姆斯特丹- 它的誕生是個意外，但大家很快就發現它所具有的未來潛力。Haibike兩年前在歐洲自行車展上首次推出的電動登山車已經成為暢銷的熱門商品。並擁有刺激更多銷量的能力。
