Trek Bicycle Corporation is a major bicycle and cycling product manufacturer

Manufacturing

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 and distributor under brand names Trek, Gary Fisher

Gary Fisher

Gary Christopher Fisher is considered one of the inventors of the modern mountain bike.Fisher started competing in road and track races at 12. He was suspended in 1968 because race organizers cited a rule that his hair was too long. By 1972 this rule had been repealed and Fisher's career continued...

, Bontrager

Keith Bontrager

Keith Bontrager is a motorcycle racer who became a pioneer in development of modern mountain bike. Between 1980 and 1995 he was president of Bontrager Cycles...

, Klein

Gary Klein

Gary Klein is an inventor, bicycle designer and innovator of the oversized tube aluminum bicycle, now a fixture in the cycling market. He first developed the concept in 1973 as part of the Independent Activities Period aluminum bicycle project at MIT, where he was an engineering student and bicycle...

 and until recently, LeMond Racing Cycles

LeMond Racing Cycles

LeMond Racing Cycles is a bicycle manufacturer originally founded by Greg LeMond, the first American to win the Tour de France . LeMond offered a geometry based on the racing frames he used in competition, which had a longer top tube and wheelbase in an otherwise traditional lightweight steel frame...

. With its headquarters in Waterloo, Wisconsin, Trek bicycles are marketed through 1,700 dealers across North America, subsidiaries

Subsidiary

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 in Europe

Europe

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 and Asia

Asia

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 as well as distributors in 90 countries worldwide.

Trek's domestic high-end frames are manufactured in Waterloo, Wisconsin with assembly in Whitewater, Wisconsin — with the majority of company's bicycles manufactured in Taiwan

Taiwan

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 and China

People's Republic of China

China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...

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In December, 1975, Richard (Dick) Burke and Bevel Hogg established Trek Bicycle as a wholly owned subsidiary of Roth Corporation, a Milwaukee-based appliance distributor.