Cycleurope
Cycleurope is a Swedish company based in Stockholm and Varberg . A number of well-known European bicycle brands belong to it . The group has production sites in Denmark, France, Italy and Sweden. Cycleurope is part of the Swedish Grimaldi Industri .
history
In response to competitive pressure from Asia, the Spanish bicycle manufacturer Beistegui Hermanos (BH) bought the French bicycle manufacturers Peugeot and Gitane in 1992 and founded the Cycleurope Group . In 1995 BH sold the group to the Swedish bicycle manufacturer Stiga Monark , which bought the Bianchi group in 1997 . In 1999 the Swedish Grimaldi Industri group bought the Monark company and with it the Cycleurope group.
Bike brands
The following bicycle brands are part of the group today (as of 2014):
- Crescent , was acquired by Monark in 1960 through the purchase of Nymanbolagen.
- Monark , Swedish manufacturer, founded in 1908 in Varberg
- Bianchi (FIV Edoardo Bianchi ), bicycle shop in 1885 and then production in Via Nirone in Milan, Italy, was bought by Cycleurope in 1997
- Gitane , founded in France in 1930
- Micmo , founded in France in 1935
- Puch , bicycle shop 1889, a bicycle factory in Graz, Austria in 1899
- Legnano , on the purchase of Edoardo Bianchi
- Peugeot , bicycle division (loss of trademark rights in 2004).
- Øglænd DBS, was bought by Monarch in 1989 and by Cycleurope in 1996
- Kildemoes , founded in 1942 in Odense, Denmark
- Everton
- Chiorda , owned by Edoardo Bianchi
- Renault , trademark license acquired in 2003
- Spectra
Web links
- cycleurope official website
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.bhbikes.co.za: BH Bikes ( memento of March 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), English, accessed on June 21, 2014
- ^ Grimaldi Industri Group: Organization , English, accessed on June 21, 2014
- ↑ www.clean-auto.com: Renault Sport Technologies signe un accord with Cycleurope ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , French, accessed June 21, 2014
