The industry has a new company in town — Accell Group North America. And its new structure is taking aim at the industry's top three brands — Trek, Specialized and Giant. At a small dealer meeting Tuesday morning, Steve ...
Tags: bike, Transportation
Understanding local markets, putting customers at the centre of business and strengthening competitive advantage are key success factors for retailers in the burgeoning Asian markets, said speakers at the recent World Retail Congress Asia ...
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Currie Technologies announced Wednesday that it has launched an online store in partnership with Shopatron. Consumers will be able to buy directly from the currietech.com website and the orders will be sent to Currie’s dealers for ...
Tags: e-bike market, e-bike, bike
A group of 20 leaders from the bike industry toured the nation's capital's new protected bike lanes on a trip hosted by Bikes Belong Foundation’s Green Lane Project on Monday. The tour highlighted protected bike lanes, also known as ...
Tags: Industry Leaders, DC, Protected Bike Lanes
Raleigh Bicycles, Diamondback, Currie Technologies and Seattle Bike Supply have signed up for Lifeboat Event’s fourth-annual DealerCamp in July, the companies announced. DealerCamp will be held July 25 to 27 in Park City, Utah. The ...
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Western Digital has announced what it said is a nanotechnology breakthrough that will allow the company to double data storage capacity on hard disk drives (HDD). The discovery was made by HGST Labs, a company owned by Western Digital ...
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Accell Group reported that revenues surged in 2012 largely due to bike brand acquisitions and growth in the electric bike market. Accell Group purchased Raleigh, Currie and Van Nicholas in 2012, and their acquisitions added 123 million ...
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Currie Technologies has hired Daniel Shiau vice president of R&D and product engineering. Shiau has a background in the bicycle and electric bicycle industries. He worked for Giant Bicycle, most recently in the role of new product ...
Tags: bicycle, electric bicycle, Shiau
Wild Rose Brewery has received a notice from the Canada Lands Company to relocate its brewery by February 2014. The notice is regarding non-renewal of the lease of AF23 Building at Currie barracks, which houses the company's brewery and ...
They came, they rode, they smiled. “This is sooooo much fun,” enthused a writer for O, the Oprah magazine, as she returned from a spin on a new Electra electric bike. A handful of mainstream media representatives, from ...
Foresight Group, the leading independent alternative asset manager with a strategic focus on private equity, environmental and infrastructure, announces the launch of a £20 million fundraising for Foresight Solar EIS Fund 2. The new ...
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The morning workshop entitled "Finance and Advice support for lighting manufacturers in respect of R&D, lighting refurbishment and exporting" comprised of four presentations given by: Geoff Smyth from the Carbon Trust, Nicola O'Connell - ...
Tags: Lighting, website, Rune Marki of OSRAM Ltd
Bermuda-based RenaissanceRe has established a new Bermuda domiciled special purpose insurance vehicle, Upsilon Reinsurance II (Upsilon Re II), to offer additional capacity to the reinsurance market worldwide. The new special purpose ...
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SIMI VALLEY, CA (BRAIN) —Currie Technologies has appointed David Cabanban as the new Midwest territory manager for the IZIP Road Show. Currie has five territory managers throughout the country, each with a Nissan NV high-top van for ...
Tags: Currie Technologies, David Cabanban, IZIP Road Show, test ride bikes
Cornwall Council leader Alec Robertson has lost a confidence vote and will step down over a controversial proposal to outsource shared council services that has split Cornwall Council. Cornwall Council leader Alec Robertson lost the vote ...
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