BASEL, Switzerland - To expand its sports range, the Manor Group will open a stationary shop-in-shop concept in its 59 Swiss department stores with products supplied by Decathlon-Switzerland. In line with Manor's omnichannel distribution, all products will be available online as well.

BOCHOLT, Germany - Omnichannel bicycle distributor Rose Bikes GmbH announced a trading model cooperation with the country's largest sports store known as Engelhorn Sports. Next August, Rose Bikes will open a shop-in-shop at Engelhorn's huge sporting goods retail store in Mannheim, Germany.

AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands - International Bike Group (IBG) has sold 15 of its Hans Struijk Bikes stores in the Netherlands. The company holds on to 1 store which has been transformed to an outlet of IBG's successful 'Fietsenwinkel.nl' webshop. The 15 Hans Struijk stores have been taken-over by the Belgian chain 'Fiets!'.

VEENENDAAL, the Netherlands - The trustees handling the bankruptcy of Halfords NL have reached agreement with the Halfords franchisees on a restart of the Dutch retail chain selling bikes as well as bicycle and car P&A. The restart is with 45 stores while a further expansion is planned.

ALLENTOWN, USA - Despite the fact that during the first nine months of 2014 the US imports of bicycles increased by almost 11 percent, "The overall bicycle industry and business is again heading for a mediocre year."

VEENENDAAL, The Netherlands - Halfords NL is not making a restart as yet. The administrators handling the bankruptcy of Dutch retail chain announced this yesterday evening. The 90 wholly owned stores remained closed today; the 28 franchise-outlets are open.

ZÜRICH, Switzerland - Swiss sporting goods retail giant Sport XX - a subsidiary of the country's conglomerate Migros Group - announced to become a member of the European sporting goods buyers group Sports Trade Marketing International S.a.r.l. (STMI).

TOKYO, Japan - Private equity firm The Riverside Company has acquired Y. International, a Tokyo-based bicycle retailer with 29 company-owned stores across Japan, with a particular focus on metropolitan Tokyo.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Cycling is growing in popularity in Sweden. A recent survey published by trade association 'Svensk Cykling' indicates that 19% of all Swedes use bicycles at least four times a week to commute to school, work, or shopping.

PARIS, France - The number of bicycles sold dropped below the 3 million threshold: 2.9 million bicycles were sold on French soil in 2012; a 9% drop over 2011. All segments were down except e-bikes.