Posts Tagged ‘Highlight’
P&A Wholesalers Share Their Experiences and Predictions Regarding Covid-19 Disruption
We’re now rolling into the fifth month since Covid-19 began turning the bicycle industry, and the world more generally, on its head. Last month we asked leading complete bicycle wholesalers for their stories and predictions. This month it’s the specialist P&A wholesalers’ turn. Of course in reality, with a few exceptions, wholesalers don’t exclusively sell…
How BikeExchange Brings Brands, Distributors, Dealers and Consumers Together
– Sponsored Content – Welcome to the first of a two part series that will give you unprecedented data and insights into a ‘true blue’ Australian-born global cycling success story, BikeExchange. In Part One you’ll learn about the foundations and amazing reach today of the BikeExchange marketplace platform. Next month in Part Two of this…
How’s Business – July 2020
Welcome to our monthly survey of six bike shops across Australia and New Zealand where we start by simply asking, ‘How’s Business?’ Our follow up question for this month was, ‘What product categories are currently out of stock both in your shop and with your suppliers?’ Darryn Giles from Chain Reaction Christchurch, New Zealand said:…
Rotor and Stages Make Groupe Sportif Your One Stop Power Shop
– Sponsored Content – Stages Cycling may be best known to many bicycle dealers for their extremely high performance and well-priced crank based power meters, but for a decade Stages has also made over 20,000 commercial quality spin bikes for gyms and classes worldwide. This has given them invaluable experience when it came to developing…
How’s Business – June 2020: Special Expanded Edition!
It was already obvious from last month’s How’s Business responses that the Covid-19 virus has caused an unprecedented boom in demand for workshop services and certain categories of bicycles and P&A. This month I wanted to share more detailed information about which categories of bikes and P&A in particular are in the shortest supply, along…
Bicycle Wholesalers Share Their Thoughts on Current Situation
In addition to surveying 25 retailers for this month’s newsletter, we sent emails to CEO’s of 12 of the largest bicycle wholesalers in Australia. We focused upon companies who mainly import complete bicycles, as opposed to P&A. Next month we’ll contact some P&A specialist wholesalers for their opinions. Thanks very much to all those who…
Increased Global Bicycle Demand Could Mean Re-Stocking Delays for Australia
It’s becoming apparent to me that the Covid-19 related bike boom will have two distinct phases and that the second phase will be larger and longer than the first. In Australia we’re already coming out of Phase One. That’s been when bored people, chafing at the bit from lockdown: closed gyms, closed theatres, closed sport,…
Mavic Placed Into Receivership
On 2nd May 2020, French manufacturer Mavic was placed into receivership. Last year Mavic was sold by its former parent company Amer Sports to a Californian based private equity firm, Regent LP. There are a range of further complications around the ownership structure. Mavic was founded in Lyon, France in the late 1800’s by Charles…
How’s Business – May 2020
Welcome to my monthly chat with six bicycle shops during which I simply ask, ‘How’s business?’ There’s almost as much significance in what you’re not reading this month as what you are. Firstly, you may notice that for the first time this month I am not including a New Zealand bike shop. That’s because New…
Seven Wholesalers Share Their Personal Impacts of Covid-19
On Thursday 9th April we sent a six question survey out to a range of wholesalers throughout Australia. We stated up front that anything they wrote could be published and that we also required their personal and company name. This last requirement in particular may have deterred some from responding, so we’d particularly like to…