Pivot Cycles has promoted Lisa Cramton to marketing manager. Cramton joined Pivot in July of 2011 as an executive assistant to president and CEO Chris Cocalis. While at Pivot she has also been involved with special projects, coordinating ...
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
New Belgium Brewery, a Colorado beer maker that has often tied its fortunes to the bicycle, is hosting a summit of national bike advocacy leaders at its headquarters, starting Thursday. New Belgium is hosting 65 people from more than 40 ...
Tags: Bike, Transportation
While the energy-efficient lighting revolution continues to gather pace and causes older, more traditional bulbs to be thrown out of the window - or rather, into landfill sites - Olivier award-winning lighting designers Paule Constable and ...
Tags: Stages Fight, Beloved Lights
Leisure Trends Group will present a webinar Thursday that will include 2012 retail sales data and a look at emerging product categories, including new technologies. LTG retail analyst JJ Rudman?will present cycling retail sales data drawn ...
Tags: Transportation, Service
Barbara Greenlee of Bothell, Washington, is the latest winner of the Liv/giant bike design contest, which the Giant USA-owned women's bike brand runs with the Young Survival Coalition. Young Survival Coalition is a global organization ...
Tags: Transportation, bike
Cycling journalists Carlton Reid, of Britain, and Patrick Brady, of California, are each launching new bike books via campaigns on the crowd funding site Kickstarter.com. Reid,the executive editor of BikeBiz, the UK bicycle trade ...
The Gluskin Townley Group, publisher of the American Bicyclist Study, has hired industry veteran Al Budris to act as a sales rep for the study. "Al has been in the bicycle industry for 33 years and has literally spent his entire life ...
Tags: Bicyclist, Bicyclist Study
The Philly Bike Expo, a consumer show, will move into a larger space this year, the newly expanded Pennsylvania Convention Center in downtown Philadelphia. The show is November 9-10. "The Philly Bike Expo is designed to inspire, and ...
Tags: Philly Bike Expo, Bike
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will attend opening day of the Eurobike trade show this year, Wednesday, August 28. Merkel will take about two hours to officially open Eurobike and then tour the show. “We are very pleased that the ...
Tags: Chancellor Merkel, Eurobike
Northern Marin County gets a new purveyor of bikes—and beer, too, if all goes according to plan—as Bicycle Brüstop prepares to open April 27 as a Giant partner store. Husband-and-wife owners Aaron and Carolyn Thompson are ...
Tags: bikes, Giant Store Brewing, Marin County
Donkey Label's line of handmade soaps include soaps to remove grease and grime, a hydrating facial soap and a shaving soap. All are made especially for cyclists of pure?natural and organic ingredients. The Herbal Pumice?bar is formulated ...
Tags: Soaps, Light Industry, Daily Use
Singletrack High, a documentary about the high school mountain bike racing movement, will be screened during the Sea Otter Classic in Monterey, California, later this month. The film takes a close look at the National Interscholastic ...
Tags: bike, Transportation
.RIDES, an extended service program for bike retailers, is sponsoring next week's Bicycle Leadership Conference and exhibiting at the Interbike IBD Summit. RIDES, which is an acronym for Ride It Daily Extended Service, allows retailers to ...
Tags: Transportation, bike
One of Bike Europe's business relations mailed us the two disclosure documents after we published last Thursday that the European Commission's Directorate-General (DG) for Trade is keeping the lid on its findings in three investigations; ...
Tags: Anti-Dumping Duty, China Imports, bike