Italy's Stagnant Bike Market and the E-Bike That Refuses to Stall
Italy sells fewer bicycles overall but more e-bikes every year. The headline unit decline hides a generational shift in who rides — and what they will pay for.
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Cambodia's Billion-Dollar Bicycle Exports and the Geography of Diversification
Cambodia's bicycle exports swung from $966 million in 2022 to under $430 million in 2024, then rebounded. The boom-bust arc is a map of how trade policy, not efficiency, now decides where bikes are built.
Survival of the Fittest: Defining the 2025 Bicycle Industry
2025 is not a year of winners and losers by size. It separates disciplined operators from everyone else — and the selection pressure is reshaping who survives.
YT Industries and the Restructuring: What It Reveals About DTC's Limits
A direct-to-consumer pioneer entering self-administered restructuring is not a verdict on DTC. It is a verdict on DTC without the discipline to survive a downturn.
Growth Amid Adjustment: The State of Europe's Bicycle and E-Bike Market
Europe's market is neither booming nor busting. It is quietly reorganising around a different kind of customer — and aggregate figures hide a decisive compositional shift.
Green Shoots or False Spring? ZIV Sees the German Market Recover
Germany's ZIV reports an 11% Q1 sales rebound to 885,000 units. It is the industry's first credible sign that the bottom may hold — credible, not yet certain.
Dorel Sports and the $230 Million Loss: When Scale Stops Protecting You
A nine-figure loss from a portfolio of established brands shows that scale, on its own, is no longer a defence — and that goodwill priced for boom demand is fragile.