It is also among the largest manufacturers of components for such vehicles, the second leading in the EU after Italy.
Manufacturers in Romania made EUR300 million worth of bicycle components last year. Romania’s market share in the EU is 17% on this segment, and it competes with Italy (the undisputed leader with 27% market share) and Germany, according to the Confederation of the European Bicycle Industry (CONEBI). The 2017 report analyzes 2016 data.
Romania is a big name in the bicycle manufacturing industry, as it makes both bicycles and parts for them, having become more and more important in the last few years because of an upward trend in consumer spending in Europe and beyond. The trend on the two-wheeler market can be explained by more and more people going to work by bike on the one hand, and by the increase in the number of people exercising (traveling to the mountains on their bicycles for instance) on the other.
Most of the bicycles assembled in Romania are exported and reach sporting goods stores such as Decathlon and Intersport throughout the world. Some of the products even return to stores in Romania.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)