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Uwe Weissflog, and his Stuttgart-based PR agency, inMotion mar.com, will sell booth space and provide "sales support and enhanced customer service for European manufacturers," said Lance Camisasca, Interbike's show director. Weissflog handles the PR for Dahon, Sigma, Velo and other bicycle trade brands.

The US company announced today that preliminary fourth quarter sales figures are in line with expectations, but that initial income figures indicate that the loss from continuing operations for the fourth quarter and the year will be higher than indicated in a statement made December 1st. The shortfall is not being blamed on bike division sales...

Shifters, mechs, suspension-forks, now brakes...

The Times and Datamonitor's CommentWire are both reporting CVC is getting closer to revealing a sale or float for the 400-store retailer it bought for £427m in July 2002.

Execs from Dorel Industries, which yesterday announced it is to buy Pacific Cycle in an all-cash deal, can be seen and heard later today being quizzed at a 2004 Guidance press conference. Dorel is to create a new recreational/leisure division to absorb Pacific.