Posts Tagged ‘Hows Business’
How’s Business? – September 2022
Welcome to our monthly check-in with bicycle retailers across Australia and NZ.As always, in addition to asking “How’s business?” we asked a follow up question. This month’s question was, “How are you preparing for a new summer season, now the days are starting to get warmer?” As Wollongong prepares to host the World Road Cycling…
How’s Business – April 2022
Welcome to our monthly chat with dealers across Australia and New Zealand. For this month’s follow up question, we returned to the elephant in the room that we’ve deliberately avoided for the past few months of How’s Business columns – stock. In some ways, it’s hard to believe that we’re now approaching two years since…
How’s Business – March 2022
Wollongong, NSW Welcome to our monthly chat with bicycle shop owners and managers from across Australia and New Zealand. One universal theme in their comments is that stock shortages are still impacting their businesses and most feel that the light at the end of the tunnel, whilst visible now, is a long way down the…
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 – August 2020
Welcome to our monthly conversation with six bike shops selected from across Australia and New Zealand. Knowing in advance that bicycle stock shortages would be a topical response this month, our follow up question was, ‘Do you think it’s possible for a workshop to be a profit centre in its own right?’ Damien Lack of…
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…
How’s Business? December 2019
Welcome to our popular monthly How’s Business feature in which we ask a selection of bicycle shop owners and managers across Australia and New Zealand, ‘How’s business?’. Being our December newsletter, for this month’s follow up question we asked, ‘How is Christmas shaping up and do you do laybys for Christmas? Western Australia John Carney…
How’s Business? November 2019
Welcome to our monthly chat with a diverse selection of bicycle shop owners from throughout Australia and New Zealand. We could not have had a much larger geographic spread this month, including store owners from Cairns, Darwin, Perth and Havelock North, which is on the east coast of New Zealand. As always, we start by…