WELL FOLKS NOWHERE IS IT ANNOUNCED
on the timeline, noted below, and I've yet to collect where some documentation leads. BUT PUBLICLY in a bigger way nothing's said about the deals with local bike shop owners that became the big WHOLESALER-TREK name emblazoned across the city as a bike shop. Retailer. So everyone turn over in our graves at the mockery made of our capitalism every day that's not funny. IT'S JUST MONEY!
I have a 25 year old very good TREK frame and I'm angry to be angry with the corporation. PERIOD. The corporation period that promised to always build in the United States!
https://www.zippia.com/trek-bicycle-careers-42252/history/
TREK BICYCLE COMPANY HISTORY TIMELINE
Months later, spring of 1976, in a southern Wisconsin barn located halfway between their homes in Madison and Milwaukee, this pair of visionaries set out to make a business of building bikes of extraordinary artistry.
There were five employees on the payroll when the barn doors opened in 1976.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trek_Bicycle_Corporation
Trek Bicycle Corporation
1975–1979 — The early years[edit]
In December, 1975, Dick Burke and Bevil Hogg established Trek Bicycle as a wholly owned subsidiary of Roth Corporation, a Milwaukee-based appliance distributor. In early 1976, with a payroll of five, Trek started manufacturing steel touring frames in Waterloo, Wisconsin, taking aim at the mid to high-end market dominated by Japanese and Italian made models. Trek built nearly 900 custom hand-brazed framesets that first year, each selling for just under $200. Later that same year Trek Bicycle was incorporated. In 1977, Penn Cycle in Richfield, Minnesota became the first Trek retailer in the world. Within three years, Trek sales approached $2,000,000 in 1979.
Type | Private company |
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Industry | Bicycles |
Founded | 1975 |
Headquarters | , United States |
Key people | John Burke, President |
Products | Bicycles and related components |
Revenue | >US$1.0 billion[1] |
Number of employees | 1,800[2] |
Parent | Intrepid Corporation |
Subsidiaries | List |
Website | trekbikes.com |
Trek Bicycle Corporation is a bicycle and cycling product manufacturer and distributor under brand names Trek, Electra Bicycle Company, Bontrager, and Diamant Bikes. The company has previously manufactured bikes under the Gary Fisher, LeMond Racing Cycles, Klein, and Villiger Bikes brand names. With its headquarters in Waterloo, Wisconsin, Trek bicycles are marketed[when?] through 1,700 independently owned bicycle shops across North America, subsidiaries in Europe, Asia, South Africa, as well as distributors in 90 countries worldwide. Most Trek bicycles are manufactured outside the United States, in countries including the Netherlands, Germany, Taiwan, and China.[3]
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