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STOCKHOLM (BRAIN) — Thule Group's third-quarter net sales rebounded with a 44.9% increase year-over-year following two previous quarters of decline.

Tagged Earnings/Financial Reports
Part 11 of BRAIN's Crystal Ball series.
Steve Medcroft.

Editor's note: For a feature in Bicycle Retailer & Industry News, Retail Editor Ray Keener spoke with 14 leaders on the supplier side of the industry. Ray spoke with leaders of major bike brands, component suppliers, e-bike startups, accessory makers and more.

Tagged Crystal Ball

KOBLENZ, Germany (BRAIN) — KKR & Co. and Carlyle Group are among the private equity firms looking at Canyon Bicycles, according to a Bloomberg report citing sources who asked to remain unidentified.

Part 10 of BRAIN's Crystal Ball series.
Luke Kuschmeader.

Editor's note: For a feature in Bicycle Retailer & Industry News, Retail Editor Ray Keener spoke with 14 leaders on the supplier side of the industry. Ray spoke with leaders of major bike brands, component suppliers, e-bike startups, accessory makers and more.

Tagged Crystal Ball
Part 9 of BRAIN's Crystal Ball series.
Dave Manchester.

Editor's note: For a feature in Bicycle Retailer & Industry News, Retail Editor Ray Keener spoke with 14 leaders on the supplier side of the industry. Ray spoke with leaders of major bike brands, component suppliers, e-bike startups, accessory makers and more.

Tagged Crystal Ball
Part 8 of BRAIN's Crystal Ball series.

Editor's note: For a feature in Bicycle Retailer & Industry News, Retail Editor Ray Keener spoke with 14 leaders on the supplier side of the industry. Ray spoke with leaders of major bike brands, component suppliers, e-bike startups, accessory makers and more.

Tagged Crystal Ball

CHICAGO (BRAIN) — CABDA has postponed its inaugural Industry Summit, planned for early November at Disney World in Florida, to 2021. CABDA will hold a virtual trade event in mid-February, and hopes to resume in-person trade events next fall.

Tagged CABDA / Tradeshows and conferences

FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany (BRAIN) — Organizers of the Eurobike trade show which had planned a down-sized event for Thanksgiving week this year, announced early Friday that the event will be canceled due to a coronavirus outbreak in the region.

Tagged Coronavirus / Eurobike / Tradeshows and conferences
Part 7 of BRAIN's Crystal Ball series.
Lindsay Gaskins

Editor's note: For a feature in Bicycle Retailer & Industry News, Retail Editor Ray Keener spoke with 14 leaders on the supplier side of the industry. Ray spoke with leaders of major bike brands, component suppliers, e-bike startups, accessory makers and more.

Tagged Crystal Ball

WASHINGTON (BRAIN) — Following the Department of Interior's lead, the U.S. Forest Service is proposing updates on how e-bikes will be managed and offering a public comment period that ends later this month.

Tagged Electric bike
Part 6 of BRAIN's Crystal Ball series.
Paceline Products' Steve Mathews.

Editor's note: For a feature in Bicycle Retailer & Industry News, Retail Editor Ray Keener spoke with 14 leaders on the supplier side of the industry. Ray spoke with leaders of major bike brands, component suppliers, e-bike startups, accessory makers and more.

Tagged Crystal Ball

FOOTHILL RANCH, Calif. (BRAIN) — Bosch eBike Systems is making its Dealer Certification program available via live virtual clinics.

The company said demand for e-bikes is booming, but the pandemic is making it difficult to host in-person training. 

Part 5 of BRAIN's Crystal Ball series.
Jake Heilbron and Dan Gerhard, Partners, Kona Bikes

Editor's note: For a feature in Bicycle Retailer & Industry News, Retail Editor Ray Keener spoke with 14 leaders on the supplier side of the industry. Ray spoke with leaders of major bike brands, component suppliers, e-bike startups, accessory makers and more.

Tagged Crystal Ball
Bicycle Retailer & Industry News has joined Outdoor Media 4 Inclusion, a group developing a list of content creators from marginalized groups.

Outdoor Media 4 Inclusion will work to provide more opportunities for journalists and contributors who are Black, Indigenous, people of color, and members of other marginalized communities.

Tagged DEI and Sustainability
Brandee Lepak

PHOENIX, Ariz. (BRAIN) — Brandee Lepak will leave her role at the National Bicycle Dealers Association at the end of the year to spend more time with her children and at the five bicycle stores she co-owns with Alan Lepak in the Phoenix metro area.

Tagged Advocacy/Non-profits
Part 4 of BRAIN's Crystal Ball series.
Randall Jacobs.

Editor's note: For a feature in Bicycle Retailer & Industry News, Retail Editor Ray Keener spoke with 14 leaders on the supplier side of the industry. Ray spoke with leaders of major bike brands, component suppliers, e-bike startups, accessory makers and more.

Tagged Crystal Ball
Joe Nocella

BOULDER, Colo. (BRAIN) — For our October magazine edition, we asked our State of Retail panel members: “What are your expectations for the holiday shopping season, and how are you preparing?”

Tagged State of Retail / From the Magazine
Part 3 of BRAIN's Crystal Ball series.
Dan Jeffris

BRAIN talked with more than a dozen industry leaders about their predictions for 2021 and beyond.

Tagged Crystal Ball / Electric bike

BOULDER, Colo. (BRAIN) — Pocket Outdoor Media — the owner of BRAIN, VeloNews, Triathlete, VeloPress, VeloSwap, and Rol Massif in the cycling world — is expanding its portfolio to acquire Rock and Ice, Trail Runner, and Gym Climber magazines, all formerly produced by Big Stone Publishing.

Tagged Mergers, Acquisitions & Investments / Media/Publishing / BRAIN News
Part 2 of BRAIN's Crystal Ball series.
Frank Zimmer

BRAIN talked with more than a dozen industry leaders about their predictions for 2021 and beyond.

Tagged Crystal Ball

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