Compass Diversified Holdings, the parent company of Fox and CamelBak, reported that Fox sales over the first half of the year reached $125.2 million, an increase of 18 percent from a year earlier, whereas CamelBak sales dropped 9 percent to ...
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Dorel continued to feel the sting of weather on sales of bicycles globally during the second quarter, officials told investors during an earnings call Friday morning. “There’s no doubt the second quarter was a bad quarter ...
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The Mountain Bike Hall of Fame has announced its 2013 inductees and has announced a planned move from Crested Butte to Marin County, California. The Hall was founded in Crested Butte in 1988 and is located in a small storefront along the ...
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Lifeboat Events on Wednesday announced pricing and other details for a new, smaller-scale winter edition of Bike PressCamp, scheduled for January, as well as dates for the sixth edition of its summertime PressCamp. Packages for exhibiting ...
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SRAM has added two new members to its North American OEM sales team. Bicycle industry veteran Rick Wilks joins SRAM as a senior OEM account manager and Alex Berge joins SRAM as an OEM account manager. Wilks brings experience from both an ...
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QRide Inc. has hired Florida-based Sports and Specs Sales as an independent rep firm. The two-person firm composed of Bill Potter and David Potter serves independent bicycle dealers throughout Florida and will be representing the QRide ...
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A shipment of KHE tires bound for the U.S. went down with the container ship MOL Comfort, which sunk 200 miles off the coast of Yemen after breaking in half in a storm in June. KHE's U.S. distributor, Iowa-based Cycle Force Group, said, ...
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Felt Bicycles showed off its 2014 mountain bike line to a group of editors and a handful of retailers at the company’s headquarters in Irvine, California, this week. Felt invested heavily in its mountain bike line for 2014, with a ...
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Trek Bicycle and World Bicycle Relief raised $90,000 through its July "Trek Match" program. Trek will match the donation to WBR, which will be used to provide about 1,500 bikes to students, healthcare workers and entrepreneurs in Africa. ...
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TROY, Mich. Meritor has been named standard axle supplier for Capacity Trucks' specialty and industrial truck fleets. "Drivetrain components are crucial to effectively and efficiently moving trailers from point A to point B, and we ...
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Volkswagen is reportedly close to confirming the production location of its first seven-seat SUV, to be built at one of two plants in North America. Once officially confirmed for production, the SUV will be built at either the car ...
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Australia’s peak national motoring organisation says the Federal Government’s $200 million assistance package for the local car industry is an admission that its changes to the fringe benefits tax (FBT) rules were a mistake. ...
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Tata Motors, India’s largest car manufacturer, is set to preview its first vehicle for sale in Australia at the National 4×4 & Outdoors Show in Melbourne at the end of this month. The car maker will display its Xenon ute ...
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The upcoming entry-level Caterham Seven will be powered by a turbocharged three-cylinder engine, the British brand has announced. Manufactured by Suzuki Motor Corporation, Caterham says the 660cc engine will be the smallest and most ...
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A special edition Porsche 911 has been created to celebrate the iconic German sports car maker reaching five million Facebook fans. The 911 Carrera 4S, designed with input from the company’s many online fans, sports Aqua Blue ...
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