September bikes sales at IBDs weren't quite so bad asinitially reported. Leisure Trends has corrected and restated its RetailTrak IBD sales summary for the month. "Shortly after we published September data last week, we noticed anomalies ...
Roy Hough, long-time manager at Advanced Sports International, is joining Hutchinson Tire North America as general manager, Hutchinson announced Friday. Hough, who most recently was national sales manager at ASI, will be responsible ...
Tags: tire, tyre, Transportation, auto parts
IBD merchandise sales fell 11 percent in September to land at $252 million, and units were down 13 percent compared to the same period in 2012 according to Leisure Trends Group's RetailTrak IBD sales summary. About 167,000 bicycles were ...
Tags: bike, Transportation
Retail sales for June were down 2 percent in units but up 1 percent in dollars, coming in at $391 million, according to Leisure Trends Group's RetailTrak IBD sales summary. Year-to-date sales are still down 5 percent and off by $88 million ...
Tags: Bicycle, Mountain bike
Retail sales for June were down 2 percent in units but up 1 percent in dollars, coming in at $391 million, according to Leisure Trends Group's RetailTrak IBD sales summary. Year-to-date sales are still down 5 percent and off by $88 million ...
Tags: Retail Sales, bike, Bicycle, Mountain bike
Retail sales in April were down for a third consecutive month at independent bike shops, according to Leisure Trends’ RetailTrak IBD sales summary. Sales—bicycles and related parts and accessories—totaled $360 million for ...
Tags: Transportation, Leisure Trends, Sales
Below-normal temperatures and the 10th largest March snow coverage on record sent IBD sales into a deep freeze compared with an unusually warm and record-setting March last year, according to March retail sell-through data from Leisure ...
Training with power remains one of the most elite market niches in cycling: so expensive that even some ProTour teams limit their riders' access to power meters, keeping them under lock and key and lending them out for limited tests. In the ...
Tags: Transportation, bike, software, hardware
Retail sales are trending down through the first quarter this year compared to last year but that’s no reason for suppliers to panic, JJ Rudman, retail analyst for Leisure Trends Group, told attendees on a webinar yesterday. ...
Tags: Retail sales, Bicycle
Thanks to 2012’s unseasonably warm winter, IBD sales suffered from unfavorable year-ago comparisons this February but showed strength when viewed against the more realistic 2011 period, according to data from research firm Leisure ...
Tags: IBD sales, Merchandise
Officials from Raleigh Canada Limited announced Monday that Dave Taylor has been named the company's director of independent bicycle dealer sales and marketing, effective immediately. Taylor started his sales career in the tech sector ...
Tags: Transportation, bike, bicycle
BLOOMINGTON, MN (BRAIN) — QBP will soon begin distributing a selection of products from Canadian brand Louis Garneau, which also will continue dealer direct sales of its complete product line. QBP will carry Garneau products ...
Tags: helmet, shoes, custom clothing
BOULDER, CO (BRAIN) — Sales at IBDs bounced back in November after October declines, with overall annual sales remaining on track for a record 2012, according sell-through data from the Bicycle Product Suppliers Association and ...
Tags: IBDs, annual sales, Bicycle Product, bike industry
The return of seasonable fall weather had a chilling effect on IBD sales in October, as overall merchandise sales declined by 4 percent in units and 7 percent in dollars to $170 million, according to Bicycle Product Suppliers Association ...
Tags: Report, IBD sales, Road bikes, Mountain bikes, Transit and fitness bikes
BOULDER, CO (BRAIN) — Leisure Trends Group projects that IBD sales for the year through September have reached more than $3 billion, up 7 percent compared with the same period in 2011. However, the research firm also said that in ...