DIEREN, the Netherlands - Gazelle CEO Jaap Merkus announces to leave Gazelle, next to commercial director Eric Otto, as of October 1.

TOKYO, Japan - At a recent symposium on batteries in Japan Chinese smartphone manufacturer Huawei showed a superfast battery charging technology that works with super-conducting Graphene. Wonder-material Graphene also offers unprecedented characteristics for tyres, as Vittoria showed in its new line-ups of road, MTB and e-MTB tyres last month.

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Tern and Xtracycle design partnered this fall to successfully crowdfund a full-sized folding cargo-bike on Kickstarter. Their project, the Cargo Node, raised over 140,000 euro from supporters across three continents. "The campaign proved that consumers around the world see the potential of folding cargo-bikes," says Josh Hon, founder and Team Captain of Tern.

BIEL, Switzerland - DT Swiss, one of the biggest bike parts makers in Europe, changed its ownership. The company's longstanding CEO and Chairman Marco Zingg has sold his shares to his two business partners Frank Böckmann and Maurizio D'Alberto.

ELLWANGEN, Germany - Varta Microbattery announced that their e-bike batteries like the CellPace and the VARad are no longer on the market. Why Varta withdraws from the e-bike market was not disclosed.

SILKEBORG, Denmark - The man behind it has been involved in e-bikes right from the start of this new category and is also known as an inventor of some e-bike features still used today. Lars Munksoe who started Protanium in 2006 has now sold all of his shares in that company to Accell Group and started a new e-bike company. It's called Positive Energies ApS.

MUNICH, Germany - Early February the Winora Group (part of listed Accell Group) celebrated the opening of a Haibike Design Centre. Remarkably it isn't based at the Winora Group headquarters in Sennfeld near Schweinfurt but in the Bavarian capital Munich.

The wholesale distributor J&B Importers has acquired the BMX aftermarket and OEM brand Alienation. This company is best known to be first offering a.....

Today Accell Group, the Dutch holding for numerous bike companies, announces, "The next step in the strengthening of Accell Group's management structure."

SRAM veterans Sander Rigney and Ron Ritzler have both joined the company's senior management team in vice presidential roles. "They have incredible...

HeroEco is investing in its plant in Ludhiana, India in order to expand the company's footprint in the EU market besides consolidating in India.

BERN, Switzerland - The World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI) as the representative body of the bicycle industry announced today that the trial of disc brakes in road racing will be restarted as of January 1, 2017.

The well-known manufacturer of high-end bicycle luggage carriers Tubus announced a change in its sales strategy. In a statement the company announced that,

"The production of Brose e-bike components is identical to the manufacturing of any of it products in our huge range of automotive parts," says

Grofa GmbH, one of Germany's biggest P&A distributors, took the next step in its international expansion with the acquisition of the Benelux distributor

Electric bicycles are rapidly becoming more popular in Norway. This year sales is estimated to double. What contributes to the success is a subsidy scheme

The strategy of Pon Bike Group member BBB Cycling for the German market will change drastically as of 1 September this year. From that date distribution...

美國，蒙特羅- 美國的電動自行車是不是正在轉變？如果以上星期的美國西雅圖展(Sea Otter Classic Show)為指標的話，那此問題的答案就是肯定的。然而，那是將電動自行車的參展商數量納入考量而論的話。

MONTREAL, Canada - Dorel Industries Inc. released the results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2016. Though the company's Home Furnishing and Juvenile division reported positive financial results, Dorel Sports reported declining sales and revenue.

FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany - What this year's Eurobike is making clear to all is that the business is migrating on an enormous scale.