“(…) One of the largest bicycle production facilities in Europe is to be launched in the fall of 2021. The plant of our partner Sport Mechanical Workshop will concentrate Decathlon’s entire bicycle manufacturing business in Romania, following an investment of more than EUR30 million. The plan is to assemble more than 1.5 million units a year for Romania and Europe,” says Raul Buzgar, production country leader Decathlon Romania.
Decathlon has two partner plants making bicycles for it in Romania at the moment – a Sport Mechanical Workshop plant in Timisoara, other than the one that will be inaugurated in the fall of 2021, and a second one in Resita, Nextcity.
The two assembled 860,000 bicycles for Decathlon last year, and the target of the retailer is to have more than 1 million such vehicles made in Romania.
Romania made more than 1.4 million bicycles (regular and electric) last year, up from the about 1.2 million of 2019.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)