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...The result is that Peloton has reduced its workforce from 9,000 to 4,000 and outsourced bicycle production and fulfilment. To get ahead, it now sells used bikes and relies on third-party retailers....
...Google’s colourful open-plan working environment, complete with campus bicycles, proved fruitful....
...One example of this is SwytchBike, which turned to Indiegogo to launch its add-on electric motor for bicycles....
...The $4bn takeover of one of the UK’s largest technology companies has hit an unexpected pothole after it was forced to delay the sale due to a small number of expensive bicycles....
...The landscapes get barer and dustier. The plot is scant. But it’s weirdly hypnotic. In Act One, Kabwita, the peddler, chops down a thick tree with a single axe and barbecues the wood....
...“Everyone I talked to said they were going to go home, get married, have children and live the American dream,” he has said, and he began selling strollers out of his father’s bicycle repair shop....
...He pedals off astride his orange bicycle. I reflect on the crescendo of his theory. “Nothing is secret,” he had said. “If you’re not stupid, you should operate on that assumption.”...
...Mobike is gearing up for a showdown with its main rival ofo — so-called because the name looks like a bicycle — which raised $130m in third-round funding last October....
...bicycles for more than 40 years....
...It took Mr Foley and his team two years to prototype and design a bicycle that would feed rider metrics — including speed and resistance — into a database, allowing riders in Seoul, South Korea, and Milwaukee...
...Today, it offers a diversified product range, selling bicycles, leather goods, cola, pet accessories (made in partnership with Bruce Webber, the US fashion photographer) and, in tribute to its erstwhile...
...Watches are assembled by hand in its factory, but Shinola is design driven, also offering leather goods, bicycles, art books, and even footballs....
...From those original nine employees, Shinola’s watch division (it also makes bicycles, journals and leather goods at separate sites) has grown to a staff of 58 working on the production side....
...Trek bicycles also said it was terminating its long-term relationship with Mr Armstrong....
...Trek bicycles....
...The deal to buy Quilter comes only a month after Bridgepoint bought Wiggle, a UK online bicycle and sportswear retailer in a deal that was also valued at £180m....
...Three-wheeled bicycles piled impossibly high with plastic, cardboard and Styrofoam ply the streets. Pensioners pick through rubbish bins for drinks cans, or beg empty water bottles from tourists....
...That unit is Citadel Solutions — now Omnium, a reference to what we’re told is some sort of bicycle race....
...Many of its portfolio companies, such as Sligro, a leading Dutch food group, and Accell, the biggest bicycle maker in Europe, have been held for a decade or more. Teslin’s ideal holding period?...
...Fearlessly he has confronted chocolate-orange peddlers and declined dinner with prominent City PRs....
...CamelBak has donated systems that filtrate tap water to shops in the US, including outdoor and bicycle shops, to encourage people to buy one of its bottles and fill them up....
...Clapham House, owner of the Bombay Bicycle chain of Indian restaurants and the Gourmet Burger Kitchen restaurant group, scaled back its expansion plans and said its debt was higher and costlier than it had...
...He also sponsored bicycle rickshaws on the car-free zone of the Boulevard de la Croisette at Cannes. “We were the only brand going up and down the street for those 10 days,” he says....
...But as much as I’m fond of my local grocery store and the furniture seller on his bicycle, unorganised retail generally inhibits shopping....
...Mr Caudwell, who started the company in 1987 with a stock of just 26 mobile phones, on Sunday celebrated the sale with a 75-mile bicycle ride and lunch with his mother....
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