Derby Cycle Holding

Derby Cycle Holding GmbH
legal form	Company with limited liability
founding	1988 (1919)
Seat	Cloppenburg , Germany
management	Jan Cornelis van der Heiden Alexander Wünsch
Number of employees	820
sales	€ 321 million
Branch	Sporting goods
Website	www.derby-cycle.com
As of May 14, 2018

The Derby Cycle Holding GmbH is the largest bicycle manufacturer in Germany. It was listed in the Prime Standard of the regulated market of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange from 2011 to 2012 . The listing was discontinued in January 2013 due to a transfer of the minority interests to the Dutch majority shareholder Pon Holdings .

history

The company is from the 1919 founded by Heinrich Kalkhoff Cloppenburger company Kalkhoff developed. In 1988 the company was taken over by Derby Cycle Werke GmbH, the international Derby group, together with the Kalkhoff bicycle brand. In 1992 the company was renamed Derby Holding (Deutschland) GmbH . In 2002 Mathias Seidler became managing director. In November 2007 Derby Cycle took over the insolvent Kynast-Werke in Quakenbrück (see Otto Kynast ).

After successfully restructuring by the Frankfurt investment company Finatem place on 4 February 2011, the initial public offering . At the end of 2011, the Dutch Accell Group started a takeover attempt that was unsuccessful. Instead, Derby Cycle was taken over in 2012 by the Dutch group Pon Holdings (see also Ben Pon senior and Ben Pon junior ). Pon Holdings also owns the bicycle brands Gazelle , Union , Cervélo (Canada) and Santa Cruz (California USA), and German sales are run by Cervélo Europe .

In August 2013, the previous managing director and chairman of the board, Mathias Seidler, handed over the management of the company to Thomas Raith after almost 14 years in office. In 2019 there was its own trade fair for the first time. Due to government protective measures in relation to COVID-19 , production has been idle since March 2020.

Logistics center in Emstek

In summer 2016, Derby Cycle opened a new central warehouse in the ecopark commercial and industrial park in Emstek , which offers space for up to 150,000 bicycles and e-bikes and can deliver up to 4,000 bicycles a day.

Brands

The following brands are produced under the umbrella of Derby Cycle Werke:

• Kalkhoff , premium brand for comfort bikes and e-bikes
• Focus , premium brand for racing bikes and mountain bikes
• Rixe , city and trekking bikes for the ZEG
• Raleigh Germany
• Univega
• Cervélo

Lease-a-bike and protect-a-bike also belong to the Derby Group.

Web links

• Derby Cycle website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated August 30, 2017 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. 
2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from May 14, 2018 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. accessed on May 14, 2018 
3. ↑ http://www.derby-cycle.com/de/unternehmen/kennzahlen.html accessed on May 14, 2018
4. ↑ https://www.bundesanzeiger.de/ Annual accounts 2016, accessed on May 14, 2018
5. ↑ Press release from Deutsche Börse Group  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ The 100,000th bicycle produced . In: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , February 12, 2009.
7. ^ Nordwest-Zeitung: Cloppenburg: Dutch start taking over Derby Cycle. Retrieved May 12, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Cervélo Europe GmbH founded in 2009. Accessed April 24, 2014 . 
9. ↑ SAZbike: Derby Cycle: fewer models, longer running times. Accessed April 4, 2020 (German). 
10. ^ NDR: Cloppenburg: Derby Cycle stops production. Retrieved April 4, 2020 . 
11. ^ Tillmann Lambert: Bicycle industry in emergency operation, part 3 . sazbike.de. March 25, 2020. Accessed April 20, 2020.
12. ^ In: Nordwest-Zeitung , July 15, 2015.
13. ↑ www.ecopark.de: In the ecopark: Derby Cycle Werke GmbH , accessed on May 14, 2018.
14. ↑ Derby Cycle AG: Factsheet As of: January 25, 2011. (PDF; 1.6 MB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 23, 2015 ; Retrieved February 4, 2011 . 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.  
15. ↑ derby-cycle.com (press release of April 27, 2015): Derby Cycle presents the new generation of e-bikes (accessed on June 5, 2015)

Coordinates: 52 ° 50 ′ 35 ″  N , 8 ° 3 ′ 57.6 ″  E