Kent International

The current Kent Bicycles logo

Kent International Inc is an American company that is engaged in the import and distribution of bicycles and bicycle accessories on a worldwide basis. The company is headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey. Their products are imported and sourced from China, Taiwan, and Portugal; assembly of 500 bikes a day in a South Carolina factory began in 2014.^[1]

History

Kent is a family-owned company dating back to the early 1900s when the current President's grandfather immigrated to the United States and got a job working for the owner of a bike shop in New York. During the process of restoring old bike frames, a love for cycling was born, and in 1909, he opened his own bike shop on the Lower East Side of the city. This small bike shop led to a larger store in New Jersey where the current President's father started his own company called Philkam Cycle in 1947. Philkam supplied bikes and parts to stores all over the Eastern United States. Philkam Cycle changed its name in 1958 to Kent International. The Company is the 2nd largest supplier to the Mass Market USA and has recently developed a rapidly expanding IBD business by "leveraging their extreme buying power" which they claim allows bike shops to offer "much better value than before". They are the owners of WeeRide which is marketed as a "very innovative" line of bike accessories.^[2]

Products

Kent bicycle headbadge.

Kent markets the following products generally through large chain-stores and internet marketers:

Licensed brands

Five Licensed Brands:

Jeep Bikes which includes hybrid bikes and mountain bikes.^[3]
GMC Bikes which includes road bikes and mountain bikes.^[4]
Razor Bikes which are higher-performance mountain bike style for children.^[5]
Little Miss Match bicycles - "innovative designs" for girls bikes and helmets
Cadillac - license expired.

Kent brand

Kent branded bikes

Adult Bikes which includes all-terrain, cruiser, comfort and specialty models for adults.^[6]
Kids Bikes which includes scooters in 10", 12", 14", 16", 18", 20", and 24" models.^[7]
Specialty Bikes including tandems, adult tricycles, folders, portables, and other unique bicycles.^[8]

Accessories

WeeRide Bikes which includes child and pet carriers, pushbikes, trailers, tag-a-longs etc.^[9]

References

External links

American bicycle manufacturers

Current	American Star Bike Friday Bilenky Cycle Works Bohemian Brooklyn Bicycle Co. Bontrager Calfee Design Cannondale Catrike Centurion CHUMBA Racing Co-Motion Columbia Cortina Cycle Force Group Dahon Diamondback Dynacraft BSC Electra Ellsworth Handcrafted Fantasy Toys Lowrider Bicycle & Hobby Felt Fuji Fyxation Gendron, Inc. GT Haro Huffy Ibis Independent Fabrication International Surrey Company Iron Horse Italvega Jamis K2 Sports Kent International Kestrel Litespeed Magna Marin Masi Melon Milwaukee Mongoose Moots Next Nishiki Novara Pacific Pope Priority Quality Quintana Roo R+E Rans Designs RazorUSA Redline Rhoades Car Ritchey Design Rivendell Roadmaster Richard Sachs Santa Cruz Santana Schwinn Seven Shelby Shinola SOMA Fabrications Specialized Surly TerraCycle Terrible One Tommaso Torker Transition Trek Turner Suspension Univega Valdora Van Dessel Sports Villy Custom Volagi Waterford Precision Wilderness Trail Worksman Yamaguchi Yeti Zigo

Defunct	American American Machine and Foundry Chicago Clark-Kent E. C. Stearns Eagle Fat City Fleetwing Gary Fisher Gormully & Jeffery JMC Klein Kogswell LeMond Lotus Merlin Murray Overman Pocket Rambler Ross Serotta Solé Stelber Sterling Wright

Components	Bell Sports Bicycle Technologies International Coker Tire Fox Racing Shox Fyxation Giro Hayes Brake Burley Design RockShox Slidepad Speedplay SRAM L.H. Thomson Zipp

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