{"id":15813,"date":"2018-08-08T05:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T04:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2018\/08\/08\/rush-sports-in-agreement-with-ponbike-to-distribute-cervelo-and-focus-bikes-r7476\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T05:48:11","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T05:48:11","slug":"rush-sports-in-agreement-with-ponbike-to-distribute-cervelo-and-focus-bikes-r7476","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/rush-sports-in-agreement-with-ponbike-to-distribute-cervelo-and-focus-bikes-r7476\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush Sports in agreement with Pon.Bike to distribute Cerv\u00e9lo and Focus bikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pon.Bike and Rush Sports announce a Strategic Marketing and Distribution Alliance effective from 1 August 2018 for the benefit of bicycle retailers and consumers in Southern Africa. Pon.Bike is the owner of a portfolio of leading global bike brands including Santa Cruz Bicycles, Cervelo and Focus.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Sommer, the Pon.Bike EMEA Sales Director commented: \u201cRush Sports has caught our attention with their progressive marketing and the manner in which they conduct business in Southern Africa. It is a company that combines youth and experience to provide service excellence to its large and growing dealer network. Rush Sports makes a great partner for Pon.Bike. The next steps will be the availability, marketing and distribution of Cervelo and Focus by Rush Sports.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"grid grid-cols-12 gap-4\">\n<div class=\"col-span-6\">\n<a class=\"ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image\" href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-84241000-1533704892.png\" data-fileid=\"1285882\" data-fileext=\"png\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-fileid=\"1285882\" class=\"ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed\" alt=\"ccs-62657-0-84241000-1533704892.png\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-84241000-1533704892.png\" title=\"\"><\/a><span class=\"italic text-sm text-slate-500 block mt-1 mb-4\">Michael Sommer, the Pon.Bike EMEA Sales Director.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-span-6\">\n<a class=\"ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image\" href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-49416400-1533704891.png\" data-fileid=\"1285881\" data-fileext=\"png\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-fileid=\"1285881\" class=\"ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed\" alt=\"ccs-62657-0-49416400-1533704891.png\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-49416400-1533704891.png\" title=\"\"><\/a><span class=\"italic text-sm text-slate-500 block mt-1 mb-4\">Andre van Aarde, the Managing Director of Rush Sports.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Andre van Aarde, the Managing Director of Rush Sports commented: \u201dThe Strategic Marketing and Distribution Alliance with Pon.Bike allows Rush Sports to service more segments of the Southern African bicycle market. Rush Sports will be able to provide a variety of brands to our loyal retail dealer network. It\u2019s an honour for Rush Sports to add Cervelo alongside Santa Cruz Bicycles as these 2 brands are both segment leaders in the bicycle industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"bg-slate-100 p-5\">\nFor more information on the Pon.Bike please visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/pon.bike\/\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pon<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/pon.bike\/\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">.bike<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/pon.bike\/\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information on Rush Sports please visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushsports.co.za\/\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rushsports<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushsports.co.za\/\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">.co.za<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pon.Bike and Rush Sports announce a Strategic Marketing and Distribution Alliance effective from 1 August 2018 for the benefit of bicycle retailers and consumers in Southern Africa. Pon.Bike is the owner of a portfolio of leading global bike brands including Santa Cruz Bicycles, Cervelo and Focus. Michael Sommer, the Pon.Bike EMEA Sales Director commented: \u201cRush [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[570,568,569,244],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-15813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-cervelo","tag-focus","tag-pon-bike","tag-rush-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15813"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=15813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}