How’s Business
How’s Business? February 2022
Australia and New Zealand Welcome to our first How’s Business column for 2022. Now that we’ve gone to twice-monthly newsletters, you’ll only see How’s Business in every second newsletter. With Omicron in full flight when we interviewed these shops in late January, our follow up question this month was, “In what ways has covid been…
How’s Business? December 2021
Welcome to our monthly chat with bike shop owners and managers spread throughout Australia and New Zealand. With Christmas just around the corner after what has been a super stressful year for most members of the bike trade, we also asked, ‘How many days do you close the shop for over Christmas and how much…
How’s Business? November 2021
Welcome to our monthly chat with retailers across Australia and New Zealand. We all know that bike supply is tight, particularly for higher-end bikes, say anything over $2,000. But just like covid, you can get sick of hearing the same news. And of course, supply is only one of the two key factors that will…
How’s Business? Stock Supply Special! October 2021
Welcome to our monthly chat with bicycle shop owners and managers across Australia and New Zealand where we simply ask ‘How’s Business?’ In keeping with our stock supply theme for this month, our follow up question was, ‘How much bike stock do you have now and how confident are you that you’ll have enough for…
How’s Business? September 2021
Welcome to our monthly chat with six bike shop owners or managers across Australia and New Zealand where we start by simply asking, ‘How’s business?’ As you might expect, their responses varied considerably depending upon what level of covid restriction their town or city was under. For this month’s follow up question we asked, ‘What…
How’s Business? August 2021
Welcome to our monthly chat with bike shop owners and managers across Australia and New Zealand. Usually we call a mixture of city and country bike shops, but with Covid lockdowns affecting several of the major cities across Australia, this time we focused upon shops in the capital cities. The lockdowns also made us feel…
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…
