How's Business?

Despite the large and increasing share of business that international mail order companies are taking, the bike shops around Australia that we phoned this month were all very upbeat. In fact it was the first month since we restarted Bicycling Trade last July that every shop we called was positive about business.

22nd May 2013 · Leave a Comment · More »

Welcome to How’s Business for March.

This month, our follow up question was about consumer finance for bicycle purchases. We asked every shop if they offered consumer finance at all, and what they thought about the schemes that are on the market.

Their responses covered the full spectrum, from shops that are offering it and loving it, to one describing finance companies as ‘pillaging’, which is certainly both an emotive description and one that had me reaching for my dictionary!

13th March 2013 · Leave a Comment · More »

Welcome to our popular monthly survey of how business has been going lately in bike shops across Australia.

As always, we asked a supplementary question on a relevant topic. With the popular website Bike Exchange recently receiving national publicity for winning the Telstra Business Awards, we thought we’d ask retailers for their opinion about Bike Exchange and if they thought it was a positive or negative for bicycle retailers.

12th December 2012 · Leave a Comment · More »

As we do for each issue, we asked a selection of bike shop owners from across Australia how business was going and their response this month was generally positive.

24th October 2012 · Leave a Comment · More »

Each month in How’s Business, we’ll ask a selection of bike shop owners and managers from across Australia ‘How’s business?’

We also ask a follow up question, based upon a theme for the month. This month we thought we’d see how many bike brands each dealer carried and if they were stocking more or fewer different bike brands than in previous years.

8th August 2012 · Leave a Comment · More »