All Giant articles
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ArticleOutdoor movement accelerates across running, walking, hiking and local adventure
The latest global activity report by Strava highlights how younger generations are reshaping participation in running, walking, hiking and adventure travel in 2025.
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News briefsGiant Group revenue and earnings decline in Q3
The Taiwanese bike manufacturer posted double-digit declines in sales and profit in Q3 2025, with European OEM demand offering only partial relief.
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ArticleGiant Group posts profit amid sliding shipments
The Taiwanese bicycle manufacturer sees earnings dip as global demand softens, but innovation and sustainability remain in focus.
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ArticleGiant Group posts higher Q1 revenue, lower profit
The world’s largest bike manufacturer saw OEM recovery in Q1 2025, but profits declined due to ongoing market challenges and currency fluctuations.
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ArticleGiant Group faces inventory write-downs due to weak market conditions
The Taiwanese group faces a 7.4 percent sales decline and TWD1.9bn inventory loss but expects profit recovery in 2025 as demand for new products rises.
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ArticleGiant Group subsidiary acquires Stages Cycling assets
Giant Group’s SPIA Cycling acquires Stages Cycling assets from Foundation Fitness, expanding its portfolio in the fitness industry after bankruptcy filing.
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ArticleGiant: After slow first half year, all hopes rest on the second
Giant Group eyes a stronger second half, driven by China’s growing demand, despite a tough start and challenges in Western markets.
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News briefsGiant Group says stock overhang also weighs on Q1 sales results
The ongoing strained situation in the bicycle industry also has an impact on the sales results of the leading Taiwanese bicycle manufacturer Giant Manufacturing Company Ltd in the first quarter of 2024. The continued large-scale reduction in inventories in Europe and North America and the reluctance to place orders on ...
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News briefsGiant expands own-store network in Spain
According to CMDsport, Giant has opened a fifth own-store in Spain. This one covers 500 square meters, boasts a section devoted to women’s cycling and is situated in the island capital of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The brand believes it is sure to become a flagship in Spain, like its ...
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News briefsGiant suffers double-digit decline in sales, profit in 2023
Taiwanese Giant Manufacturing group blamed the falloff on weak demand for entry- and mid-level bikes in Europe and North America and high inventory levels in the global market. The group did point out that there remains a “strong demand” for performance products in Europe and North America and that the ...
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News briefsGiant partners with Dick’s Sporting Goods
Giant Group has agreed a new partnership deal with Dick’s Sporting Goods, America’s largest sports retail chain, involving the Giant brand. Upon the terms of the agreement, about 25 stores in the US owned by Dick’s, including House of Sport, Public Lands and Moosejaw locations, will sell Giant bikes. Specifically, ...
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ArticleGiant Group reports further slump in sales and profit in the western markets
Back in August, Giant Manufacturing reported a sales high in China in Q2, which more or less made up for the slump in sales in Europe and North America. In Q3, this was no longer the case – both the consolidated sales and the profit dropped by double digits. Consolidated ...
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ArticleGiant Group H1 down in the west but up in China
In the first half of 2023, Taiwan’s bicycle producer Giant Group reached consolidated overall sales of NT$42.58 billion (€1.22 billion). A 5.4 percent drop compared to the first six months of last year, but one region showed a strong sales performance.
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News briefsGiant Group and Stages Cycling cancel minority share takeover negotiations
At the beginning of the year, we reported on two ticker announcements from the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE). Both concerned the listed bicycle producer Giant Manufacturing Company Ltd. (or Giant Group, including brands Cadex, Giant, Liv and Momentum). The first: That Giant Group had acquired a minority stake in US-based ...
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ArticleGiant Q1: Overstock harming sales in the West
Inventory reductions in the European and North American markets, as well as the higher year-on-year comparison base, have had a direct impact on the first quarter results of bicycle producer Giant Manufacturing Company Limited (Giant Group). The Taiwanese company had to swallow a 9.6 percent sales drop compared to the ...
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Article2022 bicycle stock chart development proves you can always do worse
Five are up, the majority are down. Compare your brand’s performance with our analysis of the 2022 bicycle stock market.
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ArticleGiant Group celebrates 50th anniversary, boasts solid results
For Taiwan’s leading bicycle manufacturing companies Giant Manufacturing Company Ltd (Giant Global Group) and Merida Industry Co Ltd, 2022 is very special: both companies are celebrating their 50th anniversaries. On Oct. 27 – one week before the announcement of financial results for the first three sales quarters of 2022 – ...
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ArticleBicycle Stocks Q2 2022: Russia’s invasion causes market low
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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ArticleMunich bike retailer Alpha Bikes parts ways with Specialized, opens Giant flagship
Since founding Alpha Bikes in 1992, owners and CEOs Gerhard Wagner and Daniel Castro have worked hard to create an indispensable bike community in the German city of Munich. When they teamed up with Specialized in 2008, they even gave up their own brand. That was the year they opened ...
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ArticleGiant Group reports another sales record in Q1
For the first quarter of fiscal 2022, Taiwan’s leading bicycle manufacturer Giant Manufacturing Company Limited (Giant Group) reported a new historical quarterly record. E-bikes accounted for 26 percent of group sales. At 22.26 billion Taiwan dollars (€709.67 million), this year’s quarterly sales increased 8 percent compared to the first three ...
