Raleigh in trouble.

[oxoman]

Spotted that Raleighs Dutch owners are putting UK arm into administration.
See nottinghampost,s feature.
https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/business/historic-nottinghamshire-firm-raleigh-set-11094990

 

[ivegotabike]

Yes, here is the court filing "Application - Notice of Intention to appoint an administrator"

https://caseboard.io/cases/f116b952-3b9f-44f1-8800-9c10aa53950f

Also worth noting that it is very delinquent with its corporate filings. Accounts for the period to 31 Dec 2024 were due to be filed by 30 Sep 2025

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00139076

 

[lenfield]

Raleigh's haven't been built in Britain since the millennium. The current bikes are just badge-engineered Far Eastern imports. It's no big loss.

 

[Sharky]

Sad, but typical of firms that want to get bigger, greedy for more money and keep expanding until it implodes when the market changes.

Remember the documentary about Morgan cars. The "trouble shooter" wanted them to increase production, raise prices, but the Morgan family disagreed and wanted to keep it as a niche, highly in demand product and they are still going strong (I believe).

 

[KuroSan]

I didn't even know Raleigh was even still a thing, so I'll hazard a guess that part of the problem was their lack of advertising!