PeopleForBikes last week was in Washington D.C. for an all-women’s Fly-in with sixteen of top bicycle industry executives to help make biking better in America. PeopleForBikes leaders and industry executives met with members of ...
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Quality Bicycle Products is putting the final touches on a new in-house brand of accessories called MSW. The Taiwan-sourced line will only be sold through IBDs, and the Minnesota-based distributor is targeting keystone margins or higher, ...
Being a viable alternative to Shimano is not easy for the small Taiwanese company MicroShift. Not only is it in the prototyping stages of its own electronic drivetrain development, but it recently invested in a huge forging machine for cog ...
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Quality Bicycle Products hopes to get more shop employees on its Foundry brand of carbon bikes and is extending special pricing to retail employees. Most Foundry models are being offered at 25 percent below wholesale during the months of ...
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Q-Outdoor, a division within Quality Bicycle Products, has cobbled together two assortments of outdoor products for bike shops to consider bringing in as a seasonal buy. The selections include 'cross and fat bike-related accessories. ...
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Quality Bicycle Products and Ridley Bicycles are ending their distribution agreement Feb. 1. QBP had distributed Ridley's road and cyclocross bikes in the U.S. market since 2009. QBP will continue to support dealers and promote the Ridley ...
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Quality Bicycle Products is purchasing a 19-acre site in East Hempfield Township in Lancaster County to serve as the location for the distributor's upcoming 120,000-square-foot distribution center in Pennsylvania. QBP previously leased a ...
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American, in a major shake-up of its U.S. distribution network, will cut the number of distributors selling Shimano components from 18 to six effective Jan. 1, 2014. The decision to streamline its distribution network, said Yutaka ...
Quality Bicycle Products has hired Amber Schult as western regional sales manager. She will manage outside sales reps and account managers. The distributor now has three regional managers that make up its national sales force — Schult ...
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Looking to expand its North American business, Spain's Rotor Bike Components has opened a U.S. brand management office and will launch a new multichannel distribution model stateside. The new Boulder office will initially be staffed ...
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (BRAIN) — The Consumer Product Safety Commission is proposing a rule change that would affect importers and manufacturers of bikes, helmets, cycling apparel and children’s products, and is accepting written ...
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Editor's note: The following article appeared in the March 1 issue of Bicycle Retailer & Industry News and is part of our series of articles on succession in the bike industry. When Peter Enright agreed to friend Spence Wolf’s ...
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With snow shutting airports and icing up Interstates, Quality Bicycle Products expects little impact on attendance at Frostbike which opened today with various seminars. Tomorrow QBP’s Frost Bike expo opens with over 130 vendors ...
It’s shortly before Christmas, and Steve Flagg is just days away from leaving Minnesota for six weeks of mountain biking in the friendlier winter climes of Sedona, Arizona—an indulgence the founder of Quality Bicycle Products ...
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Bicycles Plus owner John Crews marked his shop's silver anniversary in unusual fashion: He completely overhauled his already successful 25-year-old business. Earlier this year, the longtime Specialized and Trek dealer had come to a ...
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