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BBF bike
legal form GmbH
founding 1935
Seat Hoppegarten
management Hagen tribe
Number of employees approx. 200
Branch Bicycles, e-bikes
Website www.bbf-bike.de
Status: 2018

The BBF Bike GmbH (Brandenburg bike mbH) is a bicycle manufacturer , wholesale , importer and distributor of Hoppegarten . BBF Bike carries the brands BBF Bikes, Checker Pig, Columbus Fahrradmanufaktur, Viva and Panther. The wholesaler sells the bicycle brands Bottecchia, Dahon, and Cruzee exclusively to retailers. At the Hoppegarten location, BBF also runs its own in-house wheel production .

history

The company was founded in 1935 by Irmgard and Herbert Mietzner in Berlin-Friedrichshain . A bicycle shop was opened under the name Fahrrad-Mietzner on Grosse Frankfurter Strasse. After the Second World War in 1945, the family company moved its business to Admiralstrasse in Berlin-Kreuzberg . In 1954 another bicycle shop was opened on Hermannstrasse in Berlin-Neukölln .

In 1956, the company began to set up wholesaling in West Berlin. Fahrrad-Mietzner developed into a full-range supplier with a focus on French racing bike brands. In 1959 Horst and Helga Rese (nee Mietzner) joined the business as the second generation. In 1974 the wholesale activities were relocated to Hagelbergerstrasse, also in the Berlin-Kreuzberg district. Because of the stronger focus on wholesaling, the shop on Admiralstrasse was closed in 1979.

1985 Hagen Stamm took over the management. He thus represents the third generation of the family company. Stamm began expanding the company into a supra-regional wholesaler. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Mietzner GmbH cooperated with the bicycle division of the former VEB IFA Ost in Hoppegarten and Frankfurt-Oder . At the same time, Fahrrad-Mietzner's last remaining retail store was sold.

BBF Bike GmbH was founded in 1992. The parent company has since been located in Hoppegarten on the Berlin city limits. In the following years, further branches were founded nationwide. In 1998 BBF Bike took over the exclusive distribution of the historical German brand Panther (until 2016) and in 1999 the direct import and distribution of Bottecchia Bikes from Italy.

In 2004 the trademark rights to Checker Pig were purchased. Checker Pig was one of the first manufacturers of mountain bikes in Germany. Between 2005 and 2010, BBF expanded its branch network to include Austria, Italy, the Czech Republic and Poland. Also in 2010 the range was expanded to include the bicycle brands Viva from Denmark and Moser from Italy and the entry into the e-bike market with BBF e-bikes. In 2011 the range was expanded to include Dahon folding bikes and Johnny Loco cargo bikes from the Netherlands. In 2012 the company had over 200 employees nationwide. In the same year, the trademark rights to the bicycle brand Columbus Fahrradmanufaktur from North Rhine-Westphalia was acquired. In 2018, the historic panther bike brand was finally taken over by BBF Bike.

With Marc Politze , the son-in-law of Hagen Stamm, the fourth generation joined the company in 2015. At the same time, the company celebrated its 80th anniversary this year.

In 2019 BBF took over the complete rights to the Danish brand Viva Bikes. Also in that year the exclusive distribution of the Johnny Loco brand was terminated because, according to the company, "the sales expectations were not fulfilled".

Awards

  • 2013: Brandenburg Future Prize
  • 2014: BBF receives the Initiative Prize NRW for its collaboration at Columbus Manufaktur with the WFAA workshop for the disabled.

Own brands of BBF Bike GmbH

Cycles
  • BBF bikes
  • Checker Pig
  • Columbus bicycle manufacture
  • Panther
  • Viva
Parts
  • Airpower
  • Dirtfox
  • yak
  • CP Parts

Exclusive bicycle brands

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of the company. BBF Bike, accessed January 30, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Tillman Lambert: BBF Bike takes over Viva Bikes. In: SAZbike. March 20, 2019, accessed January 30, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Alexander Schmitz: BBF ends exclusive distribution of Johnny Loco. In: SAZbike. November 6, 2018, accessed January 30, 2020 .