HANNOVER, Germany - At the April industrial engineering trade show Hannover Messe 2025, Giant Group and Siemens announced their collaboration to produce a new generation of performance e-bikes and road bikes.

BERLIN, Germany - German bicycle industry association ZIV has announced its expansion of market intelligence offerings with the creation of the ZIV market data service. The service is modelled after the Bicycle Association of Great Britain and aims to establish reliable market retail analysis for member use.

Bike Matrix, Noca, BikeFolder are just a few of the new ventures that have emerged over the past few years with a focus on data management in the bicycle industry. These companies have clearly identified a gap in the market at a time when digitalisation is becoming increasingly relevant in the value chain. The automotive industry has successfully automated data management, but the bicycle industry lags behind, impacting revenues, value chain transparency, and growth. Is change coming?

ZEIST, The Netherlands - "Data is the missing piece of the narrative, and there is a basic need for standardisation in the bicycle industry," declared speaker Bartek Czerwinski during the Cycling Industries Europe (CIE) hosted webinar on Digital Solutions for the Cycling Industry. Here, newcomers in the industry explained their ideas for creating a level playing field to bring the bike industry up to a digital level in line with its automotive counterpart.

You are a supplier and you want to increase your sales? Make it easy for your dealers to order from you: the whole process from choosing your products in stock, ordering and up until the final invoice is available directly in your customers ERP-system. Bye, bye, manual effort and welcome to the digital world.

FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany - "Corona has been a spark for digitalisation," claimed Head of Eurobike, Stefan Reisinger at the opening of Eurobike's first digital days on September 1. He referred not only to the event being digital, but the fact that digitalisation is increasingly creeping into the whole bicycle industry chain.