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MADISON, Wis. (BRAIN) — Pon's Pacific Cycle has reduced its North American workforce in an attempt to restructure operations in response to what it called challenging economic conditions in the retail mass market segment.
NEW YORK (BRAIN) — Peloton has eliminated another 500 employees globally, in what the company's CEO termed "the final phase of the company's transformation journey."
PHILADELPHIA (BRAIN) — State Farm Fire & Casualty and State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company is jointly suing Rad Power Bikes on behalf of an insured client for property damage after his Rad Power e-bike caught fire.
EL PASO, Texas (BRAIN) — Helen of Troy reported second-quarter net sales growth of 9.7% year-over-year, with its Home & Outdoor group experiencing an 11.8% increase.
BOULDER, Colo. (BRAIN) — PeopleForBikes on Tuesday released a final full agenda for its upcoming SHIFT '22 Conference in Bentonville, Arkansas.
(BRAIN) — The fourth annual Ebike Future Conference, an online event, will be held next week and boasts more than 50 speakers, including some well-known names in the U.S. industry.
MORGAN HILL, Calif. (BRAIN) — David Schriber, formerly with Nike, Burton, and Masterclass, will be joining Specialized as chief marketing officer effective Monday.
(BRAIN) — The National Bicycle Dealers Association and Human Powered Solutions are warning e-bike and e-scooter dealers in areas affected by Hurricane Ian to beware of battery packs compromised by water.
CARLSBAD, Calif. (BRAIN) — The City Council here on Tuesday night voted to continue more new initiatives in addition to seeking community and government input on potential additional action to reduce the rise in collisions involving bikes and e-bikes.
Action the council took included:
LOUISVILLE, Colo. (BRAIN) — United Sports Brands, which bought Pearl Izumi from Shimano in May, is laying off several employees at the apparel brand and will close its Colorado headquarters.
TAIPEI (BRAIN) — Taiwan's Cabinet has approved a plan to end a stringent COVID-19 quarantine requirement that has discouraged foreign visitation. On Oct. 13, the country will likely lift the plan, which currently requires a three-day full quarantine followed by four days of mandatory health screening.
CAVARZERE, Italy (BRAIN) — The Bottecchia bicycle company and local media are reporting that a large fire destroyed part of Bottecchia's production headquarters here on Sunday. On social media, the company said no employees were hurt and the extent of damage is still unknown.
CARLSBAD, Calif. (BRAIN) — The city recently took short-term measures in response to a 233% rise in collisions involving bikes and e-bikes in the past three years while it works to present a longer-term solution to the City Council on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON (BRAIN) — The U.S. Small Business Administration will host a free virtual forum for small businesses to improve their cybersecurity infrastructure.
FRANKFURT (BRAIN) — For the first time, Eurobike is offering exhibitors the option to attend only the event's three trade days and not the event's final two-day consumer bike festival.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (BRAIN) — Private equity firm MiddleGround Capital announced Tuesday that it acquired HLC. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
TACHERTING, Germany (BRAIN) — PIERER Industrie AG has acquired a majority stake in the component brand Syntace and its bike brand, Liteville.
WASHINGTON (BRAIN) — The industry expressed disappointment that the Inflation Reduction Act leaves out an e-bike tax credit and other initiatives that were part of more ambitious but failed climate-change legislation earlier this year. But proponents won't stop advocating for federal subsidies and expanding those on the state level.
POW Bike is an initiative that seeks to get the bicycling community to vote for pro-climate candidates and the bike industry to use its economic leverage to push for a transition to renewable energies.
BOULDER, Colo. (BRAIN) — Due to a plague of spam in recent weeks, we've flipped the switch so that web comments on this site will appear only after a human has approved them.
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