Built-to-order products delivered via the internet will be commonplace before this decade is out. Shoes, jeans, computers (think Dell), and furniture will all be made to order with the slightest peccadillo being catered for. Oh, and most top-end bikes will be made this way too.
Read More »Ad deadline looms
SUPPLIERS: If you want to join the 52 advertisers in the BikeBiz pre-show issue, you've got to be quick...
Read More »Montgomery resigns as president of COLIBI
In a press release we were faxed last week but which was embargoed until today, Brian Montgomery, president of COLBI (the Eurowide equivalent of the Bicycle Association) and chairman of the European Bicycle Manufacturers Association, gives his reasons for his resignation
Read More »Plymouth cancelled
For those of you who don't check out the bulletin board (not that many of you, as it happens although most people 'browse' rather than add comments of their own) here's a press release that was posted there earlier...
Read More »Pix added to BikeBiz
As you'll see, from now on we have added pictures to this website...
Read More »The Whyte stuff
In his first ever feature length interview for a trade magazine, Peter Holton of ATB Sales talks frankly to BikeBiz about the Whyte project, Marin, margins and the future for IBDs
Read More »Itll be all Whyte on the night
According to the BIKEmagic website today is the day the first Whyte bike from ATB Sales will be available. BIKEmagic scoops the world once again, says Brant Richards, editor of BIKEmagic. Well, weve got a scoop of our own...our latest feature article is the first big trade interview Peter Holton of ATB Sales has ever done!
Read More »Bike stands: are they art?
Check your bike stands: are they made of stone and have you been using them since the year dot? If so, you may have an Egyptian artifact on your hands!
Read More »It’s our charity, let’s shout about it
BEN, the Motor and Allied Industries Benevolent fund, isn1t a small charity it has a yearly income of £8.2m but it doesn1t have a very high public profile, unlike many much smaller charities.
Read More »MBO at Ideal Bicycles
Eddie Eccleston president of the Bicycle Association has effected a management buy out of Ideal Bicycles from Concept Cycling.
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