All Accell Group articles

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    Accell Group opens Koga Experience Center in Heerenveen

    25 March 2025

    The new Experience Center in Heerenveen offers a behind-the-scenes look at the brand’s craftsmanship and cycling legacy.

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    Accell Group names Jonas Nilsson as new CEO

    16 January 2025

    The leadership reshuffle aims to strengthen future growth and innovation of the Dutch bicycle supplier.

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    Accell Group secures creditor support for recapitalization

    5 November 2024

    The company’s creditors approved the restructuring plan, paving the way for recapitalization implementation.

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    Bicycle manufacturers’ octet presents the industry with Climate Action Training

    30 October 2024

    Eight cycling companies unite to launch free Climate Action Training, empowering the industry to cut CO2 emissions in global supply chains.

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    Accell France has a new head

    16 October 2024

    William Perrier has ten years of experience in the bicycle industry.

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    Accell Group’s debt reduction: Shareholders and banks agree on plan

    4 October 2024

    Accell Group secures a €600 million debt reduction plan in partnership with shareholders and banks, positioning the company for future growth and stability.

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    Accell Group relocates production and cuts jobs

    2 February 2024

    After announcing the relocation of the production of the German Accell brand Ghost in Waldsassen to the Accell production sites Accell Hunland Kft. in Hungary and Accell Bisiklet Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. in Turkey late last year, the Accell Group is now planning further measures to streamline the operating model ...

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    Coalition for Cyclist Safety aims to improve safety of bike and eBike riders in North America

    25 October 2023

    19 companies from the automotive, bicycle and technology sectors have joined forces to drive the development and implementation of connected mobility solutions. With their help, they want to help reduce the risks for bicycle and eBike riders on North American roads. Founding members of the Coalition for Cyclist Safety are: ...

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    Accell Group appoints new CEO and Supervisory Board Chairman

    6 October 2023

    Source: Accell Group Tjeerd Jegen, new CEO and Chair of the Management Board The Netherlands-based Accell Group, a leading manufacturer of bicycles, bicycle parts and accessories, has appointed Tjeerd Jegen as CEO and Chair of the Management Board, effective Nov. 1, 2023. Jegen succeeds Juan de Ochoa, ...

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    Bicycle Stocks Q2 2022: Russia’s invasion causes market low

    7 July 2022

    After the stock market booster called hope catapulted the OIC Bicycle Stock Chart 2021 to new heights and seemed to defy all realities, the high flight ended with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The chart of the first quarter of 2022 already showed a steep decline, which now also continued in the second quarter.

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    KKR acquires 96% of Accell Group

    26 June 2022

    The consortium led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) has now acquired 96.9 percent of Accell Group’s share capital, although the 80 percent acceptance period was not quite reached. Under the tender offer, 5,671,703 shares were tendered during the acceptance period, representing approximately 21.1 percent of the total outstanding ...

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    Accell Group takeover: KKR declares offer unconditional

    10 June 2022

    After the status of the Accell Group takeover was in limbo last week, Accell Group and KKR (Kohlberg Kravis Roberts) have now jointly announced that, considering all offer conditions having been satisfied or waived, KKR declares the offer unconditional. The number of shares that have been tendered for acceptance under ...

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    Status of Accell Group takeover in limbo

    4 June 2022

    The Dutch Accell Group did not receive the required threshold of tendered shares by its June 3, 17:40 CET deadline, casting uncertainty over its proposed €1,145 million takeover by an affiliate of U.S. financial investor KKR (Kohlberg Kravis Roberts) that was formally made on April 6 but first announced in ...

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    Accell Group updates takeover details

    3 May 2022

    Source: Accell Group CEO Tom Anbeek Accell Group issued a clarification about its looming €58.00 a share takeover by a consortium led by buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR). The all-cash offer, which values the Dutch bike company at €1.56 billion (a premium of 42 percent over ...

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    Accell Group sets May meeting date on KKR offer

    21 April 2022

    The Dutch Accell Group has established May 20 as the date for the extraordinary general meeting on the recommended all-cash, €1.56 billion (€58.00 a share) offer for the company by a consortium led by U.S. financial investor Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR). The offer, initially revealed in late January, was formally ...

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    KKR formally submits offer for Accell Group

    11 April 2022

    U.S.-based financial investor Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. Inc. (KKR) formally announced its €58-per-share offer for Dutch-based Accell Group, owner of Ghost, Haibike, Babboe, Batavus, Lapierre, Winora and other bicycle brands, on April 7, with an acceptance deadline of June 3. The offer per share represents a 26 percent premium ...

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    Outdoor and bike industry stocks fall nearly 18% in Q1

    7 April 2022

    Our quarterly analysis of the outdoor stock market shows a 17.84 percent sequential decline in the average stock prices of 31 public companies primarily involved in the outdoor and bicycle sectors between Jan. 1 and March 31. Broader market conditions weighed on the sector, which had posted stock price increases ...

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    Bicycle shares Q1 2022: Geopolitical situation puts pressure on the market

    5 April 2022

    While global lockdowns, virus variants, inflation, zero interest rates, supply shortages or political crises could not harm last year’s upward trend in bicycle stocks, Russia’s attack on Ukraine has changed everything. The war is intensifying the surge in prices. Fears of supply shortages of gas and oil and other commodities ...

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    Better pricing cushions Accell's volume sales decline

    4 March 2022

    Could these be the last public business figures released by still-listed bicycle manufacturer Accell Group N.V.? As previously reported, a private equity firm backed by U.S.-based Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. Inc. (KKR) has made an offer to acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Europe’s leading ...

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    U.S. investor to buy Accell Group

    24 January 2022

    The bicycle industry continues to boom and is therefore increasingly targeted by investors. Dutch Accell Group N.V. and a consortium led by U.S. financial investor KKR (Kohlberg Kravis Roberts), which includes Accell’s major shareholder Teslin, announced today that a conditional agreement has been reached for a recommended public offer by ...