Gilo Industries CEO Visits Brompton Bikes

Gilo Industries Group CEO and keen cyclist, Jim Edmondson, visited the Brompton Bicycle factory in West London last week to gain insight into the ongoing success and growth of one of only two major bike frame manufacturers still based in the UK. The company has come a long way since its initial production facility in a railway arch back in 1975, with its current site occupying 22,000 square feet.

Brompton’s Managing Director, Will Butler-Adams, joined Edmondson for the factory tour where every Brompton is built by hand from scratch, before being sent out across the UK and to 37 export markets around the world. Edmondson was also introduced to Andrew Ritchie, inventor and founder of the Brompton Bicycle, along with members of the design team who demonstrated some of the latest projects the company are working on.

The visit to Brompton is a clear statement of intent for Gilo Industries: that the company is committed to building a successful British aviation design and manufacturing company with determination to deliver new innovative products. Design and manufacturing have been at the backbone of British industry for more than 100 years, and are activities that the company not only passionately believes in, but consider of primary importance to the future economic growth of British industry. Gilo Industries is absolutely dedicated to fostering the rebirth of one of Great Britain’s industrial cornerstones: meticulously crafted, high-tech industrial design and manufacture.

It’s a philosophy that is at the core of Edmondson’s view for the future of the Group and one that the company shares with Will Butler-Adams and his team at Brompton.

“Like the team at Brompton, through everything we do, we strive to find the best solution,” said Gilo Industries CEO Jim Edmondson. “We never stop. We exist to go beyond the boundaries; to be state-of-the-art; to innovate; to be the absolute best at what we do. And everything that both Gilo Industries and Brompton has achieved has been built on the founding principles of good design and solid, seamlessly efficient engineering and manufacturing.”