Retail News
IRVINE, Calif. (BRAIN) — The National Bicycle Dealers Association has overhauled its retailer award program, formerly called America's Best Bike Shops. The new program is called the Bicycle Retailer Excellence Awards. It continues the ABBS program's use of the application program as a learning tool for retailers.
MILWAUKEE (BRAIN) — There are lists of America's best bike shops and of the "top 100" bike shops. But, BRAIN being a dollars-and-cents kind of business magazine, we set out to identify America's largest: The Big BRAIN Ten.
PHILADELPHIA (BRAIN) — After 26 years in the industry, Drew Guldalian has figured out what he does best. So while many suppliers zig toward the direct-to-consumer route, Guldalian and Engin Cycles zags toward retail outlets to sell his components.
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. (BRAIN) — R&A Cycles acquired Zealot Cycleworks and closed Zealot's San Ramon, California, storefront on April 7.
BOULDER, Colo. (BRAIN) — For our April magazine edition, we asked our State of Retail panel members: How does your shop engage with advocacy on a local or national level, and what types of advocacy do you think are most effective?
IRVINE, Calif. (BRAIN) — Amelia Kegel, the co-owner of Milwaukee's Wheel & Sprocket retail chain, and Ellen Kast, the co-founder of the American Classic component brand, will be panelists on the NBDA's Women in the Industry event on Monday, April 12.
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (BRAIN) — The owners of Summit City Bicycles & Fitness have announced the sale of their business to Trek Bicycle.
EASTON, Pa. (BRAIN) — Trek Bicycle has acquired Genesis Bicycles, a single-store operator in the Lehigh Valley.
NEW YORK (BRAIN) — Rubber N' Road, a retailer that held two series of weekend pop-up events in the city last year, will hold its first 2021 events this month.
Like last year's events, the pop-ups are being hosted on Sundays only at Volvo Cars Manhattan, which is the car brand's flagship US studio.
WASHINGTON (BRAIN) — The Paycheck Protection Program has been extended another 60 days until May 31 for small-businesses owners to apply for financial assistance in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
BOULDER, Colo. (BRAIN) — Holden Nimmer was receiving a shipment of Giant bikes Monday afternoon when he heard the gunshots.
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. (BRAIN) — Tom Riccio walked into Bennett’s Bike Shop in 1993 to buy his five-year-old son’s first bike. He left with four bicycles and a connection to a community that would keep going for the next 27 years. “We decided in the store to become a family of bike riders,” he said.
BOULDER, Colo. (BRAIN) — For our March magazine edition, we asked our State of Retail panel members: What are your hiring challenges, and how do you manage them? Are you re-evaluating hiring practices to attain more diversity?
PITTSBURGH (BRAIN) — The Dick's Sporting Goods senior women's leaders announced an advertising campaign Thursday to showcase the company's efforts to assist women and girls on and off the field.
BOISE, Idaho (BRAIN) — Prosecutors say Bradley Knirnschild had a bad habit of renting bikes and vans that he never returned.
NOVATO, Calif. (BRAIN) — Police have recovered a 40-foot container full of donated used bikes that were stolen from Mike's Bikes' headquarters over a week ago. The bikes were collected by the Mike's Bikes Foundation and were to be shipped to Botswana, Africa.
IRVINE, Calif. (BRAIN) — The National Bicycle Dealers Association women's virtual networking event is scheduled for March 8 as part of International Women's Day.
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (BRAIN) — German brand Storck Bicycle GmbH is expanding its business in Northern America. With the help of a new exclusive partner, a Storck Concept Store has just opened here.
SEATTLE (BRAIN) — REI Co-op announced the location of its first corporate satellite office, five months after selling its newly constructed corporate campus and revealing plans to move to a modified remote work environment.
SEATTLE (BRAIN) — When the co-founder of the Seattle Pedaling Relief Project recently added up the weight of all the food and supplies the nonprofit initiative has delivered on behalf of food banks since last spring, he was stunned at the number: 88 tons. “I was blown away,” says Maxwell Burton.