How’s Business
How’s Business – July 2021
Welcome to our monthly chat with half a dozen retailers spread throughout Australia and New Zealand. With winter now well and truly set in and the traditional quiet season for bike shops underway, for this month’s follow up questions we asked our retailers if they were using this time to make any shop fit-out upgrades…
How’s Business? June 2021
Welcome to our monthly chat with a widely varied selection of bicycle shop owners and managers spread throughout Australia and New Zealand. Both from these conversations and many other conversations and visits we’ve been making since our previous monthly newsletter, it appears that, for now at least, the bicycle stock shortage has been easing. But…
How’s Business? May 2021
Welcome to our monthly chat with bicycle shop owners and managers across Australia and New Zealand. As always, we start by simply asking, ‘How’s business?’ This months follow up question was, ‘How do you think the coming winter season is going to compare to last year’s?’ Troy Reilly of Sprung in the centre of Launceston, Tasmania said: Mate, business…
How’s Business? April 2021
How’s Business? March 2021
Welcome to our monthly chat with bicycle store owners and managers across Australia and New Zealand. Recently we’ve seen a proliferation of electric scooters on the roads, bike paths and footpaths across both countries. Many are part of newly emerging hire schemes, but many more are privately owned. It appears that most of these are…
How’s Business? February 2021
Welcome to our first How’s Business interviews conducted in 2021. As always, we called a selection of shops across city and rural locations throughout Australia and New Zealand. This month’s follow up question was, “Did you notice any differences in your Christmas trade compared to previous years?” Paul Fitzgerald from Giant Echuca in the historic…
How’s Business? Christmas 2020
Welcome to our monthly survey of bike shops where we start by simply asking, ‘How’s Business?’ As we anticipated, the shop owners we talked to quickly raised the issue of supply shortages. For this month’s follow up question we asked, ‘Given the ongoing shortage of new bikes, have you considered selling second hand bikes?’ In…
How’s Business – December 2020
Reports of stock shortages are certainly sounding like a broken record in our monthly ‘How’s Business?’ column. But that’s what was top of mind for every retailer we spoke to this month. With Christmas looming our follow up question for this month was, ‘How do you think this Christmas season will compare to previous years?’…
How’s Business? – November 2020
Welcome to our monthly conversation with bicycle shop owners across Australia and New Zealand. It would be lovely to have a break from talking about the Covid-19 impact upon the bicycle industry, not only for the relatively trivial reason of editorial variety, but because, as the pandemic drags on, it’s really starting to put a…
How’s Business? – October 2020
Welcome to our monthly chat with bike shop owners across Australia and New Zealand. Unfortunately, stock shortages continued to dominate the dealers’ concerns and comments. This month our follow up question was, “How do you see this new season going and have you made any changes to your usual new model year bike orders?” Steve…