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Melbourne, Victoria. Australasia’s largest bicycle company, Sheppard Cycles, is purchasing Victorian retailer Bicycle Superstore Group, to help secure Sheppard’s position in the market. “An opportunity arose to retain the Bicycle Superstore Group within our business while we find the right independent retailer to take the reins – one that we can partner with for the long term.” It announced on …
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Canberra, ACT. Bicycle import numbers in Australia were on an earthbound trajectory when The Latz Report last reported on the data late last year. My article on the data to the end of September 2022 reported: “It appears that after two years of stratospheric bicycle imports, numbers are starting to fall back to earth.” One quarter on, there’s no question …
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Italian cycling garment manufacturer Castelli has spent almost a century and a half at the head of the pack – as one of the industry’s most influential innovators and as the garment of choice for athletic royalty. Fine tailor Vittore Gianni founded the company in Milan in 1876 and created garments for soccer clubs AC Milan …
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Melbourne, Victoria. Mountain bike pioneer Simon Jamison has enjoyed the spoils of taking an unorthodox path – in sport and in business – and now he’s put his Melbourne store on the market. He opened one of Australia’s first – if not the first – dedicated mountain bike stores in the late 1980s and, more recently, has operated a popular …
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Melbourne, Victoria. Urban e-bike specialist Tern and Melbourne-based company LEVA Group, headed by Lugg+Carrie owners Ben and Dan Carr, have announced a new partnership for the distribution of Tern bicycles to independent bicycle dealers across Australia. LEVA Group will have Tern bicycles and accessories available from 1st March 2023, and will take over all service and…
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Wollongong, NSW. Updates are now open for the 2023 Latz Report YearBook and it’s more convenient than even for businesses to ensure their details are up to the moment. We’ve been busy making our own updates – to the online registration process – so bike industry wholesalers and other relevant business can quickly review and refine their listings in the …
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Sydney, NSW. Revolve ReCYCLING officially launched its expanded facilities in Sydney last week, within the Bingo waste management depot at Alexandria in the city’s inner south. Speaking at the launch on Tuesday 14th February, general manager Guido Verbist gave an overview of Revolve’s operations and reason for being, using 10...
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Melbourne, Victoria. Global markets might be tightening for many cycling products but one award-winning accessory by Melbourne company Knog is enjoying alarming popularity. The cycling accessories brand recently claimed the new Urban category at the 2023 Design and Innovations Awards in Europe, with its Scout security device launched last year. The success is the latest in a...
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Cape Town, South Africa. South African protective equipment brand Leatt has signed Bikecorp as its Australian distributor. Leatt was founded in 2005 by Dr Chris Leatt, when the company entered the MTB protection market with its revolutionary neck brace that went on to win several awards in the MTB and motocross sectors. Over the past 13 years, Leatt has released …
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Basel, Switzerland. Swiss bike brand ARC8 has launched into the Australian market, after signing with Adelaide-based distributor EightyOneSpices. A small brand with a hefty pedigree, ARC8 was the perfect opportunity for EightyOneSpices to transition into complete bike brands, according to the distributor’s founder and director, Krischan Spranz. “We’ve been looking for a complete bike brand...
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Perth, WA. Experienced sporting goods retailer and wholesaler Hayden Burbidge has further stepped up as a prominent player in WA’s bicycle industry, by signing as the State's sales rep for The Electric Bicycle Co. TEBCO is one of two brands Hayden has added to his expanding portfolio so far in 2023. The other is Queensland…
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Rochester, Victoria. If you’ve been in the industry for a while, you might remember that for two decades we featured regular columns by Greg Griffiths, across both Bicycling Trade and Bicycling Australia magazines. In particular, his ‘Behind the Counter’ column often drew wry smiles from other bike shop owners/managers when writing about ‘slice of life’ encounters with certain ‘challenging’ customers. …
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