Miele bicycles
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Miele is a bicycle manufacturing division of Procycle Group Inc.
of Saint-Georges, Quebec
, Canada
.
Miele bicycles were originally manufactured by the Guvin Company beginning in 1982 in Mississauga, Ontario
. The company was founded by Jim Miele and several family partners. Miele had immigrated from Italy.
The company originally manufactured quality Italian style road bikes. They even sponsored a local Giro in their native Italy. Later the company diversified to produce a wide spectrum of bicycles including children, city and mountain bikes.
Prospering for many years it began to face difficult times when cheap Chinese bicycles began to enter the Canadian market in the early 1990s driving profits down. Faced with this competition the company went into bankruptcy ceasing operations in 1996.
Jim Miele died in Toronto, Ontario from a heart attack a few years after stopping to produce Miele bicycles.
In 1997 the assets and trade mark were purchased by a company in Montreal called BKH Summit. BKH Summit reintroduced the brand with small scale production of high end road bikes in St. Laurent, Quebec. In 1999 they sold the brand to Groupe Procycle of Beauce, Quebec the largest producer of bicycles in Canada.
Groupe Procycle for many years had produced Peugeot bicycles under license marketing them in Canada and the United States. Having lost the Peugeot license Groupe Procycle replaced it with the Miele brand.
Procycle Group
Procycle Group is the most important Canadian manufacturer of cycling products. Procycle is based in St-Georges, Beauce, Quebec, Canada and have offices also in Montréal, Vancouver and Shanghai. Procycle owns the Rocky Mountain Bicycles and Miele brands. They also support the Pro Cycle Vélociste...
of Saint-Georges, Quebec
Saint-Georges, Quebec
Saint-Georges is a city in the province of Quebec. It is the seat of Beauce-Sartigan Regional County Municipality, part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region. The population was 30,113 as of 2009. Route 173 runs through Saint-Georges Est and heads south to the border with Maine, USA...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
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Miele bicycles were originally manufactured by the Guvin Company beginning in 1982 in Mississauga, Ontario
Mississauga, Ontario
Mississauga is a city in Southern Ontario located in the Regional Municipality of Peel, and in the western part of the Greater Toronto Area. With an estimated population of 734,000, it is Canada's sixth-most populous municipality, and has almost doubled in population in each of the last two decades...
. The company was founded by Jim Miele and several family partners. Miele had immigrated from Italy.
The company originally manufactured quality Italian style road bikes. They even sponsored a local Giro in their native Italy. Later the company diversified to produce a wide spectrum of bicycles including children, city and mountain bikes.
Prospering for many years it began to face difficult times when cheap Chinese bicycles began to enter the Canadian market in the early 1990s driving profits down. Faced with this competition the company went into bankruptcy ceasing operations in 1996.
Jim Miele died in Toronto, Ontario from a heart attack a few years after stopping to produce Miele bicycles.
In 1997 the assets and trade mark were purchased by a company in Montreal called BKH Summit. BKH Summit reintroduced the brand with small scale production of high end road bikes in St. Laurent, Quebec. In 1999 they sold the brand to Groupe Procycle of Beauce, Quebec the largest producer of bicycles in Canada.
Groupe Procycle for many years had produced Peugeot bicycles under license marketing them in Canada and the United States. Having lost the Peugeot license Groupe Procycle replaced it with the Miele brand.