Industry News
BOULDER, Colo. (BRAIN) — Lennard Zinn has rejoined the VeloNews editorial staff as its first test editor. Zinn has contributed to VeloNews continuously since 1989 and is a former staffer.
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany (BRAIN) — Organizers of the Eurobike trade show are trying to encourage visitors to use bike to get to the show this year, partly in an effort to reduce traffic and parking challenges.
DENVER (BRAIN) — GearJunkie LLC, the owner of GearJunkie.com, has made some staff additions and is opening an office in Denver, after having been based in Minneapolis for more than 10 years.
CARLSBAD, Calif. (BRAIN) — Focus Bicycles USA, Inc., is now working with Promoboxx to offer campaign-based marketing materials and tools to its network of brick-and-mortar independent bike dealers and e-specialty retailers.
HEILSBRONN, Germany (BRAIN) — Ortlieb Sportartikel GmbH has hired Jürgen Siegwarth as the company's new CEO and has added senior staff members Jeff Scully and Martin Esslinger to its managing board.
FAIRFAX, Calif. (BRAIN) — The Mountain Bike Hall of Fame is accepting nomination submissions from now until April 15.
IRVINE, Calif. (BRAIN) — California distributor Bikefettish is now distributing Joe's No-Flats products in the U.S. The distributor has also hired Emily Cox, an enduro racer, Liv ambassador, and NICA coach, as the brand manager for Joe's No-Flats.
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (BRAIN) — Cane Creek Cycling Components has hired Ian Cross as their new director of sales. He started in the position on Monday.
BOULDER, Colo. (BRAIN) — VeloNews will produce the Official Guide to the Giro d'Italia stage race this year and in 2019.
MONTEREY, Calif. (BRAIN) — Organizers of the Bicycle Leadership Conference have announced the agenda and speaker line up for the event, which is April 17-19 in Monterey, just before the Sea otter Classic.
LAGUNA HILLS, Calif. (BRAIN) — Bicycle Retailer and Industry News has extended the submission deadline for new product information and news to include in the annual Sea Otter Classic Festival & Gear Guide. The new deadline is this Friday, March 9.
BREMBATE, Italy (BRAIN) — 3T Bike America has announced a new U.S. sales and management structure to be headquartered in Toronto. The former general manager of 3T America, Dave Koesel, will be leaving the company after a transition period.
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (BRAIN) — QBP is expanding its online sales training platform, called "U of Q." The platform includes video modules and short quizzes that help educate retail employees on selling a variety of brands. Current schools include: Salsa, Surly, 45NRTH, iSSi, and All-City.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (BRAIN) — Pinarello US is a newly formed subsidiary of Cicli Pinarello and is led by company president, David Vigil. Gita Sporting Goods, Pinarello's longtime distributor in the U.S., will be "deeply involved" with the new subsidiary, said Giordana Andretta, the vice president of Gita.
AURORA, Ontario (BRAIN) — BionX Canada, the maker of retrofit e-bike conversion kits, has entered into receivership. Grant Thornton, a business and advisory firm, has taken over management of the company and all business activity has been suspended.
WASHINGTON (BRAIN) — The Trump administration's plans to sign sweeping tariff revisions next week could raise the price of imported steel by 25 percent and increase the cost of imported aluminum by 10 percent.
BOULDER, Colo. (BRAIN) — The International Mountain Bicycling Association (IMBA) and the Walton Family Foundation are partnering to present new Trail Labs educational programming and matching Trail Accelerator grants to bring more trails to communities across the U.S.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (BRAIN) — Park Tool announced it has surpassed 100,000 subscribers to its YouTube channel, where viewers can learn how to tweak, adjust and fix their bikes from Calvin Jones, the company’s director of education and master mechanic.
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (BRAIN) — Scottish BMX brand BSD has rolled out a MAP policy aimed at ensuring that BSD retailers won’t be undercut online or in-store.
OLATHE, Kan. (BRAIN) — Garmin reported Wednesday that fourth-quarter revenue rose 3 percent to $888 million driven by sales of outdoor, marine and aviation products. Revenue for the full fiscal year totaled $3.09 billion, up 2 percent.
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