Giant (bicycle manufacturer)
| Giant Manufacturing Co. Ltd. 巨大 機械 工業 股份有限公司
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| legal form | Limited partnership |
| ISIN | TW0009921007 |
| founding | 1972 |
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Taichung , Taiwan
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| management | King Liu |
| Branch | bicycle |
| Website | www.giant-bicycles.com |
Giant Manufacturing Co. Ltd. ( Chinese 巨大 機械 工業 股份有限公司 / 巨大 機械 工業 股份有限公司 , bicycle brand: 捷安特 , Jiéāntè - "Giant") was founded in 1972 in Dajia , Taichung County , Taiwan and is now the country's largest producer of two-wheelers . Giant has been the largest bicycle manufacturer in Taiwan since 1980. Giant is now one of the largest bicycle manufacturers in the world with production sites in Taiwan, the People's Republic of China and Europe ( Netherlands ). Due to the company's specialization in design, Development and manufacturing, Giant is also a partner for other brand manufacturers around the world.
history
Development of the Giant Group
- 1972 - Giant Manufacturing Co. Ltd. founded
- 1980 - Giant becomes Taiwan's largest wheel manufacturer.
- 1981 - Giant Sales Company, Taiwan founded.
- 1986 - Foundation of Giant Europe BV, Netherlands.
- 1987 - Founding of Giant Bicycle INC, USA.
- 1989 - Giant Company Ltd., Japan founded
- 1991 - Giant Canada and Giant Australia founded
- 1992 - Giant (China) Co. Ltd. founded
- 1994 - IPO on the Taiwan Stock Exchange
- 1996 - Giant Europe Manufacturing is founded
- 1997 - Establishment of Chuansin Metal Products (Kunshan) Co. Ltd.
- 1998 - Acquisition of 30% of the shares in Hodaka in Japan.
- 2002 - Production of over 4 million wheels worldwide in one year.
Developed by Giant Europe
- 1986 - Giant Europe BV founded ( Lelystad , Netherlands )
- 1987 - Creation of Giant Holland BV (Lelystad, Netherlands)
- 1987 - Foundation of Giant Germany GmbH ( Erkrath , Germany )
- In 1987 - and the following years - 24 importers all over Europe were founded
- 1988 - Creation of Giant France Sarl ( Saint-Denis , France )
- 1988 - Giant UK Ltd. founded ( Nottingham , UK)
- 1990 - Creation of Giant Italia (Vicenza, Italy)
- 1996 - Giant Europe Manufacturing is founded
- 1999 - Giant Warsaw founded ( Warsaw , Poland)
- 2002 - Giant France SARL moves to Aix-en-Provence ( France )
Products
Giant manufactures bikes in a wide variety of designs. In addition to trekking and touring bikes, the company has been producing racing bikes and various types of mountain bikes ( full suspension, etc.) since it was founded . The company's steel frames have long been made of Tange tubing .
Giant as original equipment manufacturer for other brands
Initially, the company was an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) for well-known US brands. Just five years after it was founded, Giant was able to convince the traditional American brand Schwinn Bicycle Company in 1977 to have its bikes manufactured by Giant. Soon Giant was also manufacturing for Scott , Trek and Colnago . In 1987 Schwinn switched to a cheaper Chinese manufacturer and Giant continued to develop its own brand. These included the Defy and Propel racing bike models , which were later used successfully in the Tour de France .
Carbon fiber bicycle frame
Giant is one of the pioneers in the manufacture of bicycle frames from carbon fibers ("carbon"). Giant first installed carbon fiber on bicycle frames in 1984 and launched a bicycle frame made entirely of carbon fiber in 1996. According to its own information, Giant was the first designer to automatically round high-strength carbon fiber mats, later to wind them into oval tailpipes and glue them together, which led to an inexpensive base pipe that could be sawn to fit and glued into aluminum sleeves. This made it possible to use conventional plug-in processes in conjunction with the classic diamond frame shape and to dispense with the otherwise common manual bonding technique used in carbon fiber construction. All Giant frames are completely in-house; As with some other brands, there are no suppliers.
As with the French component manufacturer LOOK, the first complete frames from Giant consisted of a carbon tube system with dural sleeves and an aluminum fork (for example the Giant Cadex model series ). It was not until the mid-1990s that suitable full carbon forks could also be manufactured through the use of viscoplastic adhesive materials and resins.
Giant racing bike from the 90s
Small Giant racing bike made of CroMo
Cycling
Giant was and is the official supplier of several cycling teams , u. a. from Once , the T-Mobile team , as well as from the Columbia team and the Rabobank team . At the beginning of the 2013 season, Giant became the main sponsor of Team Giant-Shimano (later, among others, as Team Giant-Alpecin and Team Sunweb ), and remained its supplier until the end of the 2018 season, before Giant became supplier to the CCC team for the 2019 season .
Web links
References and comments
- ↑ Christoph Neidhart: Wheel for the world. Retrieved March 12, 2020 .
- ↑ 'Secret' Giant is world's biggest bicycle manufacturer and still growing. Retrieved April 17, 2018 (UK English).
- ↑ New partnerships from 2019: Giant & CCC and Cervélo & Sunweb. In: velomotion.de. October 8, 2018, accessed April 24, 2019 .