BAD URACH, Germany - Michael Funk has joined the management board of German brake expert, Gustav Magenwirth GmbH & Co. KG (Magura Group), effective 1 June. In his new role as CEO, the 47-year-old is responsible for the entire Magura Group.
MANISA, Turkey - Electronics giant Vestel has started e-bike battery production to meet growing demand. "E-bike batteries are our main focus now although we have developed batteries for many other products such as vacuum cleaners, medical ventilators, power tools and energy storage systems," explains Deputy General Manager of Battery Systems, Ilker Gürtekin.
HEERENVEEN, the Netherlands - Jeroen Hubert has left the Accell Group as Chief Commercial Officer per February 2020. Confirming the resignation to Bike Europe, Debbie de Wagenaar, Director Marketing Accell Group, said that "Jeroen has overseen the organisation of the marketing and digital strategies and formed a good basis for our commercial strategy going forward."
EINDHOVEN, the Netherlands - Following the recent announcement that René Veenhuizen will become MD of Shimano Benelux, leaving his position as Sales Director of Shimano Europe's Bike division, Shimano Europe has appointed Niels de Lange as his replacement.
ST. JEAN DE MOIRANS, France - The Rossignol Group, owner of Felt, Rossignol and Time, announce the departure of co-founder and President of Felt Inc, Bill Duehring. The Rossignol Group has appointed Scott Rittschof as Senior Vice President of the company's Global Bike Division.
He is widely known throughout the industry in Europe as well as in Asia. And not only as one of the founders of Ghost, as he became one of the senior executives of Accell Group NV after this company took over Ghost in 2008. Uwe Kalliwoda has retired and says goodbye to all his relations in a recent farewell letter.
SRAM appointed Ken Lousberg as its second Chief Operating Officer (COO) in the company's 30-year history. "We were looking for a leader who had managed
Michael Kraushaar has been appointed as interim Managing Director of the Winora Group for a period of about six months. He succeeds Susanne Puello
He was born in Cologne in 1933 and grew up in the bicycle business of his parents: Hans Schauff passed away on 23 September, at the age of 83.
LONDON, UK - Next month work will start in London on the construction of east-west and north-south Superhighway routes, dubbed "Crossrail for Bikes". ...
ŠIAULIAI, Lithuania - After driving Baltik Vairas through the spin-of challenge back to a profitable level CEO Dirk Zwick resigned in order to spent ...
CLOPPENBURG, Germany - Derby Cycle Managing Director and Chairman Mathias Seidler will leave the company. On September 30th he hands over his office to ...
TAIPEI, Taiwan - The LEVA networking dinners at the major shows are always heavily attended by some of the most well-known and respected leaders of the ...
TORONTO, Canada - Phil White, co-founder and current CEO, has been appointed Chairman of Cervélo as well as Innovation Officer for the Pon Bicycle Group.
SCHWEINFURT, Germany - In recent years, SRAM has been working on a transition of the Schweinfurt facility from a manufacturing location to a European ...
Joy Industrial, Taiwan better known as Joytech is opening a European office in Senica, in the western part of Slovakia. Milan Krusinsky (photo left) ...
Meghna Bangladesh Limited (MBL) is to cease its operations by November 30, 2010. It is the 1st bicycle factory established in 1965 in Bangladesh. ...
The PedPower is Heinzmann's new bracket electric motor concept which will be launched at Eurobike. The complete e-Drive system with sensors is hidden ...
Bike shoe and pedal maker Exustar has relocated its production facility. We outgrew our original premises three or four years ago, says MD Calvin Hsieh ...
Cannondale Bicycles' HQ (see photo) has announced a reorganization of its marketing and product management departments. As part of this decision ...
