Field & Stream, a specialty hunting and fishing retail chain being launched by Dick's Sporting Goods, will open its first store in South Carolina and 14th store nationwide on Thursday, August 27 at Centre Pointe in North Charleston. An ...
Shimano Inc. reported sales for the nine months ended Sept. 30 were up nearly 21 percent compared with the same period last year thanks in part to a weaker yen. Sales of of Bicycle Components were brisk in North America, while sales of ...
Tags: Bike Components, Sporting Goods
Dick's Sporting Goods has selected the National Interscholastic Cycling Association (NICA) for its $75,000 matching grant program through its Sports Matter crowd funding platform. After receiving a $20,000 contribution from Shimano/Pearl ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
Shimano Group reported net sales reached ?71.0 billion yen in the year ended Dec. 31, 2013, up 10.2 percent from 2012. The Japanese company said China's growing appetite for sport bikes more than offset lackluster demand in North America, ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
Retailer Signature Cycles raised almost $80,000 for World Bicycle Relief last month with help from industry donors-and a huge assist from an individual benefactor. Signature held twin silent auctions at its Manhattan and Greenwich ...
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Pearl Izumi will have a grand opening and ribbon cutting event at its new headquarters here on Sunday. The new 55,000-square-foot facility is adjacent to the brand's previous location in Louisville. The company said it features a ...
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Felt Bicycles announces this week it will not renew its sponsorship of the Team Argos-Shimano pro team for the 2014 season. "After two very successful years together, the decision is one that did not come easily," a Felt statement said. ...
Tags: Felt Bicycles, end, Argos-Shimano, sponsorship
Easton Cycling is raffling a custom steel Black Cat road bike as part of its Dream Bike Charity Sweepstakes. Tickets are available from the Easton Facebook page for $5. Proceeds from the raffle go the charity of the builder's choice. In ...
Tags: Easton, auctioning, third, Dream Bike, charity
Shimano's latest entry into the e-bike powertrain market takes aim at Bosch with a center-drive motor that will be introduced in Europe in 2014. Called STEPS—the name given to the first group it launched in 2010—an acronym for ...
Tags: Transportation
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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When Shimano announced its distribution shakeup in July, a number of Taiwanese component suppliers began calculating the odds of picking up additional aftermarket sales in the U.S. market. After all, Shimano is trimming its U.S. ...
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As trade shows and consumer events come and go, organizers of Ukraine's annual event will celebrate their tenth anniversary next year with Velobike 2014. According to Tatiana Davidenko, the event's sales manager, the Feb. 27-March 2 show at ...
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Shimano's sales climbed to $2.03 billion (199.501 billion yen) over the first nine months of the year, up from $1.86 billon (182.739 billion yen) over the same period last year. Shimano's bicycle sales grew 9 percent to $1.62 billion ...
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Stages Cycling's power meters will become available in Australia and New Zealand through FE Sports, a Queensland, Australia, distributor. Product should be on retail shelves by November. FE Sports is a family owned company that markets ...
Tags: Instruments, Meters, power meters
Shimano's 2014 mountain bike shoe line features three models with its Dynalast technology, borrowed from its high-end road racing shoes. The Dynalast XC shoes optimize the toe spring angle and secures the foot in an optimized ergonomic ...
Tags: shoe, bike, sport shoe