Industry News
BOLOGNA, Italy (BRAIN) — Ducati will offer a new range of road, gravel, and e-MTB models in the spring in collaboration with Italian holding company Gruppo Zecchetto and input from three professional Italian cyclists.
SPARKS, Nev. (BRAIN) — Bicycle Technologies International relocated its warehouse and service operations to a new distribution center with a footprint 50% larger than its previous location about a half mile away.
NEWBURY PARK, Calif. (BRAIN) — Giant Group USA will relocate from here to Boulder, Colorado, with the transition beginning early in the new year and with most employees expected to be settled by late summer and early fall.
TAICHUNG, Taiwan (BRAIN) — Giant Group says it issued refunds on Dec. 1 to all its migrant workers who had paid recruitment fees in the past and it is hoping for a "swift" revocation of the Withhold Release Order that U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued in September.
HANGZHOU, China (BRAIN) — AliExpress says it worked with Specialized and Chinese law enforcement to dismantle two counterfeit manufacturing operations in China, leading to the seizure of $1.5 million worth of fake products, including Specialized Roval frames, handlebars and wheels, and fake Pinarello, Cannondale, Cervélo and Trek products.
BERLIN (BRAIN) — The two German trade groups that announced in October they no longer would support Eurobike are inviting international OEMs and suppliers to participate in one of two online meetings to explain their decision and to answer questions.
(BRAIN) — Park Tool has opened the application window for its 2026 Community Tool Grant program. Now in its 11th year, the program has donated over $135,000 worth of tools to organizations throughout the world.
CUMBRIA, United Kingdom (BRAIN) — U.K.-based capital investor BGF has made a "multi-million-pound" investment in bike retailer POS company Citrus-Lime.
AMSTERDAM (BRAIN) — CEO Janus Smalbraak is leaving Pon Holdings after 25 years, the past 15 leading the parent company of Pon.Bike. Smalbraak wrote a LinkedIn post that he will join Amsterdam investment company Parcom as a partner.
WASHINGTON (BRAIN) — U.S. bike imports from China rebounded in July and August, probably in anticipation of increased tariffs that were then threatened to take effect in November.
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (BRAIN) — Thomas Franges, who as a boy in Zagreb, Croatia, dropped smoke bombs on Nazi occupiers in his city and as an adult helped stem a threatening tide of product-liability lawsuits against the bicycle industry, died on November 19 at home in San Rafael, California. He was 89.
VICENZA, Italy (BRAIN) — Campagnolo laid off 40% of its workforce after it reported losses of 24 million euros ($27.8 million) over the past three years.
HICKORY, N.C. (BRAIN) — After 33 years of manufacturing its socks and other products in-house, DeFeet is shifting to the use of nearby partners for knitting. The company is continuing to buy yarn from domestic sources and handle R&D, marketing, sales and other functions at its "clubhouse" headquarters in Hickory, said founder Shane Cooper.
LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. (BRAIN) — Paul Deem, an industry stalwart who was an Olympian, store owner and bike-brand sales manager, died in October following an accident while on vacation in Portugal with his wife, Deborah. He was 68.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (BRAIN) — Master bike wheel builder Bill Mould died Nov. 12 at his home at age 82. Mould worked with several retailers and manufacturers throughout his career, and ran his own wheelbuilding, engineering and technical education business, Bill Mould Wheels.
(BRAIN) — Felt Bicycles said its current management team and minority shareholders, Florian Burguet and Cesar Rojo, have entered into a purchase agreement with the Pierer Mobility Group to fully acquire the brand.
KOBLENZ, Germany (BRAIN) — Canyon Bicycle sales declined 7% year-over-year in the first nine months of the year with parent company Groupe Bruxelles Lambert saying the industry's challenging market of "oversupply and aggressive discounting" was partially responsible.
(BRAIN) — E-bike retailer and brand Pedego has a new owner: the U.S.-based ownership group behind Urtopia, a start-up e-bike brand that offers high-tech carbon fiber and connected e-bikes.
SANTA FE, N.M. (BRAIN) — More than 40 Cranksgiving rides will take place this weekend in cities nationwide as the 26th annual food drive nears its peak activity period before Thanksgiving next week.
GRANGER, Ind. (BRAIN) — The National Bicycle Service Technician Program is now accepting mechanics seeking accreditation on the NBSTP website.
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