When TDS Velos announced the end of its involvement in the "slowUp" in the fall, the bike manufacturer from Thurgau promised that it would provide more support to dealers in the future (Ride reported). This announcement has now been followed by the first action. TDS dealers who take part in two workshops in the "Praxis-Seminar" training series will receive a CHF 50 discount on the seminar fees, which will be covered by the bicycle manufacturer. The offer applies to the two workshops "Quality assurance in the workshop" by technical expert Dirk Zedler and "Earning money with repairs and services" by bicycle trade business expert Andreas Lübeck.

Reto Meyer, Managing Director of Tour de Suisse Rad AG, cites the valuable contribution of these training courses to specialist dealer expertise as the reason for this support: "As a manufacturer of high-quality bicycles, we benefit from competent specialist dealers. The practical seminar program deals with current industry topics in an everyday manner. That's why we encourage our partners to take part in these seminars and stock up on important know-how."

Great success for the practical seminar
The half-day workshop quality seminar will take place on February 16 in the conference rooms of Lucerne railroad station. The full-day workshop business management seminar will be held at the same venue on March 9. Due to the high demand for this seminar, organizer Marius Graber has also organized a second date for the same training course on 10 March. Further training courses on topics such as sales, complaints handling, personnel management, lightweight construction and marketing will be held on Mondays until March 9. According to Marius Graber, the interest in the seminars this year is so great that additional dates can also be offered for the seminars on sales and complaints handling. As a result, there are still places available in all seminars despite the high demand.