Dorel Sports continued to expand its bicycle business in South America Wednesday by opening a subsidiary in Chile and acquiring one of its dealers there. Dorel Sports Chile S.A. of Santiago de Chile, will lead sales, marketing, ...
Dorel Industries reported that its Recreational/Leisure Segment lost $5.4 million after mostly non-cash restructuring charges that reduced its overall earnings by about half. Dorel warned investors in early February that continued ...
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This blog post was written by?Fred Clements, executive director of the?National Bicycle Dealers Association. Clements' previous blog posts can be read on A small but resolute group of bicycle industry leaders stormed Capitol Hill ...
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Dorel continued to feel the sting of weather on sales of bicycles globally during the second quarter, officials told investors during an earnings call Friday morning. “There’s no doubt the second quarter was a bad quarter ...
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After more than 20 years of licensing its brand name to an Italian company for use outside of North America, Bell Helmets has reacquired the worldwide rights to its brand in the powersports market. "Our motorcycle helmet business is a ...
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After nearly nine years with Scott Sports, Adrian Montgomery is leaving the company on July 10, he and the company announced late Thursday. "It was a very hard decision to leave Scott," said Montgomery. "I've given a lot of myself to the ...
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Dorel CEO and president Martin Schwartz told shareholders at the company's annual meeting Thursday morning that despite the slow start to the year—which he attributed to bad weather that persisted through April—he remains ...
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In daily life Around the turn of the 20th century, bicycles reduced crowding in inner-city tenements by allowing workers to commute from more spacious dwellings in the suburbs. They also reduced dependence on horses. Bicycles allowed ...
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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 ...
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Tour de France hero Greg LeMond said he expects to begin selling bicycles again, possibly showing prototype models as early as this year's Interbike. "I've got quite a few different ideas," LeMond said in a Skype interview with BRAIN this ...
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OSAKA, Japan (BRAIN) — Shimano sales gained 11 percent last year to $2.6 billion (245.8 billion yen). Sales of Shimano bicycle products were $2.1 billion (198.2 billion yen) a 12 percent increase, while fishing sales were up 8 percent ...
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LOS ANGELES, CA (BRAIN) — Fixed-gear bike company Pure Fix Cycles has hired industry veteran Terry Duran as global sales manager. Duran was previously national sales manager for Scott Sports' U.S. bike division. The company said ...
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Tour de France champion Greg LeMond told the French paper Le Monde over the weekend that he would be a candidate for the presidency of the cycling union UCI. "I'm ready. I was asked and I accepted. If we want to restore public confidence ...
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Just last week I talked about the Elephant In The Room Problem and how much I hoped folks would be willing to talk about it when I got to the Bicycle Leadership Conference later that week. So imagine my surprise when I got to Monterey and ...
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