Might be their gain as it will mean they can concentrate on another area, often done, I dropped most of my retail customers so that I could earn more money years ago.
Shortage of Bike spares in future
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Might be their gain as it will mean they can concentrate on another area, often done, I dropped most of my retail customers so that I could earn more money years ago.
DRM
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What I’m saying is their UK sales will be so small, they could do that in house, they must know how many of each model of saddle is sold here, so keep that amount here, not in Italy, then send orders out to retailers via UK couriers
Cycleops
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I'm sure cycle distributers like Madison are eyeing the situation.
lane
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How many would you get for £50k? Maybe around 1,500? How many get sold in the UK per month? I am guessing it will take a while sell 1,500 units.
Cycleops
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It will take a while to get a return on your money. And I can bet the sales graph is not going in an upward direction.
ebikeerwidnes
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If a reasonable sized company has not got their plans sorted out for post Brexit then it is probably because the sales that are affected are too small for them to want to spend any time on.
If the sales were sufficent that loosing them would be a problem then they would have got something sorted - this suggests that the extra costs don't justify the extra costs - as said above - just employing one person costs a significant amount.
If I was a UK manufacturer that has significant UK sales then I would be looking at my product range marketing and taking some of their market
If the sales were sufficent that loosing them would be a problem then they would have got something sorted - this suggests that the extra costs don't justify the extra costs - as said above - just employing one person costs a significant amount.
If I was a UK manufacturer that has significant UK sales then I would be looking at my product range marketing and taking some of their market
Maybe that is why they are not stressed about losing the sales.
DRM
Guru
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- West Yorks
Just as I suspected it would be, makes absolutely no sense having a product go to Italy, then come back here
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
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- lost somewhere
Have they stopped brawling in the aisles of the bike shops as panic stricken punters rush to get the last Brooks saddle?
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
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- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
It has made a difference in that UK residents can no longer buy direct, hasn't it?
lane
Veteran
To be honest I don't know. This is the cycling weekly link that claims it is untrue
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cy...-the-uk-have-stopped-due-to-brexit-487164/amp
lane
Veteran
Reading the article I think you are correct if you want one shipped by SA from Italy to you can't. But there is a UK distributor that continues to supply the UK and the saddle does not need to go via Italy. I don't know but imagine buying direct from the brooks website is not going to be cheapest.
As often the truth is a bit more nuanced than the press make out.
