Décathlon to Distribute Its Brands Through Auchan
VILLENEUVE D'ASCQ, France (November 15) - Décathlon has reorganized its store format around its 7 home brands called '7 Worlds', responsible for 52.6% ...
Full Speed Ahead Adds to Management Team
SEATTLE/ Wa, USA. (November 11) - Full Speed Ahead (FSA) which is a subsidiary of Tien Hsin Industries from Taiwan, has recently added two industry ...
Cannondale Had Another Loss-suffering Quarter
BETHEL/CN, USA (November 11) - Cannondale Corp. saw its net loss further widen to US$8.4 million or $1.11 per share in its first quarter 2003, which ...
About Sports New Union-distributor Belgium
NIEUWLEUSEN, The Netherlands (November 11) - Since November Dutch Union bicycles in Belgium are distributed by NV About Sports from Belgian Marke. ...
Planet Fun to Launch P&A Arm Add-One
PERIGNY, France (November 5) - As business is struggling in heavy economic weather, the French bike maker Planet Fun decided to launch a Parts & ...
Dutch Euretco Rejects BikeForce Cooperation
BREDA, The Netherlands (November 5) - Euretco Two-Wheelers rejected a joint venture with UK's Bikeforce to launch a bicycle retail service organization ...
Accell Group Third Quarter Results: All's Well
HEERENVEEN, The Netherlands (November 1) - Despite the current market conditions, Accell Group NV, the holding company for bicycle makers in The ...
Taiwan Troubles: Shock Works Stops; Cyclone's Factory Stripped by Creditors
KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan (October 30) - One of Taiwan's better names in high-end suspension parts, Shock Works, recently announced that it will cease ...
Trek Talks to Villiger about Take Over
BUTTISHOLZ, Switzerland (October 28) - Trek is currently negotiating with the bicycle division of Swiss Villiger Soehne AG about a possible take over. ...
Dutch IBD Associations Merging
BUNNIK, The Netherlands (October 24) - During a special meeting NCBRM (Dutch Christian Association for bicycle and motorcycle dealers) members agreed on ...
EU Forgets Bicycles
BRUSSELS, Belgium (October 24)- Upon revision of its DG TREN website, The European Commission has left out bicycle statistics. The same applies to the ...
THI to Purchase Bankrupt CPI Business
TAICHUNG, Taiwan (October 21) - In the wake of the recent collapse and bankruptcy of Taiwanese crankset maker CPI, better known as Cyclone, Tien Hsin ...
3rd Shimano Cycling Concept Award
NUNSPEET, The Netherlands (October 21) - For the third year running, Shimano Europe is to organize the 'Shimano Cycling Concept Award', a pan-European ...
Epple Zwetrad Is New German Distributor Pacific/GT
LAKE FOREST/Ca, USA (October 21) - Pacific Cycle/GT Bicycles appointed Epple Zwetrad as its new German distributor. Schwinn/GT previously distributed ...
China Dumping
MAARSSEN, The Netherlands (October 10) - There are rumors going round that the European Union will soon lift anti-dumping tariffs on complete bicycles ...
Go Sport: Soft First Half Sales
SASSENAGE, France (October 7) - Groupe Go Sport saw its first half net sales marginally increase by 1.1% to € 290 million. On a same store basis sales ...
Czech Favorit Sold
ROKYCANY, Czech Republic (October 3)- The Favorit bicycle factory was sold in auction on September 24, 2002 for € 840,000. The opening bid was fixed at ...
SRAM Catching Up with RockShox' Production and Delivery Problems
CHICAGO, USA (October 1) - What's happening with RockShox? That's the key question in Europe at the moment. Rumours are building as delivery problems ...