Ideal bikes

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Nikos Maniatopoulos SA
(Brand: Ideal Bikes)

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legal form Corporation
founding 1926
Seat Patras , Greece
management Haris Maniatopoulos, manager
sales EUR 26.7 million (2004)
Branch Bicycle manufacturer
Website www.ideal-bikes.de

Ideal Bikes is the brand under which the bicycle manufacturer Nikos Maniatopoulos SA . produces and sells its products. The company is a member of the European Manufuture network. The company's total sales in 2004 were 26.7. Million euros, 190,000 bicycles are produced per year.

history

The company Maniatopoulos Bros SA was founded in 1926 in the port city of Patras and imported bicycles and motorcycles to Greece, later the company began producing its own bicycles, for which the brand name Ideal has been used since 1977 . In 1991, production moved to a 23,500 m² site in Agios Vassileios, a suburb of Patras. In 2006, Ideal became the main sponsor and namesake of the Mountain-Bike Team Varese (today: Ideal Racing Team ). Team Zwillingscraft won the Bike Transalp 2006/2007 on Race Pro carbon bikes from Ideal Bike. In collaboration with the University of Patras , the company is working on a public bike rental system for Patras.

activities

Ideal V-Track

The company deals with the development and manufacture of bicycles and rims. The products are arranged in the middle to upper price segment, while some simpler bikes are also available for the local market.

Teams

The Austrian team Volksbank ideally supported in its first year as a professional team, which this season drove as Volksbank ideal . The Latvian team Rietumu Bank-Riga is sponsored by Ideal and initially operated as Rietumu Bank-Riga-Ideal . Several teams use Ideal Mountain Bikes in competitions and have won international and national titles:

  • Ideal bikes team
  • Team Emmedue
  • Team twin craft
  • Team Biking Cyprus

Trivia

The owner family founded an automobile plant in cooperation with Renault in 1979, which manufactured pick-ups under the name MAVA-Renault ; In 1985 the company was dissolved.

Web links

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  1. Economic_Files / Greece_in_Figures_2006_ICAP.pdf Report on the economy of Greece
  2. http://www.manufuture.org/national%20platforms/  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Letter% 20to% 20Prof% 20Flegel2.pdf@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.manufuture.org  
  3. http://www.athenstock.com/popup/Pages/Economic_Pages/ Economic_Files / Greece_in_Figures_2006_ICAP.pdf
  4. http://www.idealcyklar.se/
  5. Archive link ( Memento of the original from February 28, 2008 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.idealbikesteam.com
  6. http://www.ideal-bikes.de/
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  8. See the "Teams" section on: http://www.idealcyklar.se/