VILLENEUVE-D'ASCQ, France - Sports retail giant Decathlon United reported a 6% decrease in turnover in 2020 compared to 2019. Despite stores being closed for an average of 3 months, turnover reached €11.4 billion and net income remained stable at €550 million as online sales grew. "It was a one-of-a kind year," proclaimed CFO Jean-Marc Lemière about the annual figures.
DRESDEN, Germany - Bicycle chain store retailer Little John Bikes GmbH celebrated the opening of its 40th store on its home market Germany. The company aims to celebrate its 50th store opening in the fall of 2022. Besides the new store openings, the company is achieving rapid expansion through a unique IBD succession concept which offers a solution to the 'ageing' market.
WAMBRECHIES, France - In 2020, the French brand O2Feel registered a very busy year. Due to the huge growth in demand for e-bikes after the different European lockdowns, the brand sold around 25,000 units in Europe… up from 10,000 in 2018. This resulted in a 65% growth in turnover. The brand also placed a focus on additional stores and close to market production facilities.
BOCHOLT, Germany - In the past weeks this trade journal reported about the enormous cost increases for the industry. It becomes unavoidable for bicycle and e-bike suppliers to add at least a part of those extra costs to their sales prices. Many direct sellers like international operating Rose Bikes
KOPRIVNICE, Czech Republic - The recently sold and the country's largest manufacturer Bike Fun International (BFI) has presented its fiscal year report 2020. Despite some discrepancies in the time period of reporting company figures, the overall result is clear.
FSA has developed cable routing systems for road, gravel, aero, and MTB bikes which can be used for both internal and external cable routing. This patent-pending system combines FSA's knowledge bases in both headset and cockpit development as well as manufacturing.
LA-ROCHE-SUR-YON, France - Arcade Cycles is one of the biggest bike manufacturers in France with a production of 50,000 units (e-bikes included) per year. With a strong focus on rental bikes, the Covid-19 crisis has impacted Arcade Cycles' production, but the French manufacturer has succeeded in limiting the drop in activity and is now eyeing an increase of its turnover for the 2019-20 fiscal year as production ramps up.
REICHSHOF, Germany - Schwalbe has released its new tubeless valves in stem lengths of 40, 60 and 100 millimetres. The company states that fitting of the valves has also been made easier with detailed technical improvements to the valve base.
GIVISIEZ, Switzerland - Due to the corona-pandemic Scott Sports SA's e-commerce business reports a strong 48 percent (YTD) website traffic increase. On the back of this impressive number, the Swiss multi-sports company announced further e-commerce targets. Scott plans to expand its strategy "continuously interlocking consumers, retail and the brand" into further key markets - meaning that more consumers will soon be able to order products 24/7 online.
VILLENEUVE-D'ASCQ, France - The sports retail giant Decathlon reports an increase in sales of 9 percent in 2019. Turnover expanded from 11.3 billion euro in 2018 to 12.4 billion euro last year. Decathlon is very content with last year's financial performance as the company reported that "2018 has been disappointing".
LONDON, UK - Major UK high street cycle retailer Evans Cycles issued an update in late 2019 for the latest closed stores. They are Chalk Farm and Chiswick in London and Macclesfield and Leeds in northern England. Despite these closures the rate is far less severe than feared.
TÄBY, Sweden - In the first half of 2019 safety products supplier MIPS reported hiking results. However, the harsh US import tariffs on Made in China products slowed down sales in the third quarter. The Swedes still are confident about the overall 2019 financial results and the outlook for 2020.
Amazon is now the largest seller of products on the internet. It has a 40 percent market share in North America and continues to grow approximately 20 percent year-over-year.
BRUSSELS, Belgium - Since late last year Brussels is evaluating the General Vertical Block Exemption Regulation 2010 (hereinafter referred to as 'VBER'). The question is whether this Regulation should be prolonged, revised or allowed to lapse.
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Displaying fully automatic frame production in combination with a hundred percent recyclable material made Hsin Yung Chien Co., Ltd. (HYC) one of the remarkable exhibitors at this year's Taipei Cycle Show. The frames are mainly made of recyclable plastics.
CAMBRIDGE, UK - Major online retailer Wiggle-Chain Reaction Cycles has confirmed that it will be joining the Bicycle Association of Great Britain - BAGB's leadership group and participating in the BAGB's new market data service which Bike Europe have reported on recently.
ROTTERDAM, the Netherlands - Per 1 March Fox Global Logistics has taken all business activities of Bicycle Logistics Rotterdam. This company is exclusively focused on providing logistic services in the bicycle sector. How much money Fox paid for its acquisition has not been disclosed.
ALMERE, the Netherlands - Pon Holdings announces that on 20 November 2018 it purchased 338,121 ordinary shares in Accell Group N.V. and that it has now purchased a total of over 5.3 million ordinary shares in Accell, representing 20.0 percent
LONDON, UK - It has just been announced that one of the UK's major cycle retailers, Evans, is to be sold to UK-based Sports Direct, a major sports goods retailer. It marks the end of a bidding war between Sports Direct, Halfords and JD Sports, as reported in Bike Europe recently.
Media in the UK are reporting that the 60 stores strong UK high street bicycle retailer Evans Cycles has hired a financial restructuring firm and that a financial lifeline of GBP 10 million (11.2m euro) borrowing is required.
