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 MORE community Kudos ... Bike Friday was recently named a Lane County Workforce Award 2008 recipient for being a company that is "innovative, growing and providing local job opportunities." Bike Friday co-founder Alan Scholz and Marketing Director Hanna Scholz attended a luncheon with representatives of 170 Eugene, OR businesses to accept the award. From the LaneMetro.com report: In accepting Bike Friday’s award, Alan Scholz, who founded the company with his brother Hanz in the early 1980s, said, “We’re on the other side of Eugene. We do come to work in tie-dye and sandals.” The maker of innovative fold-up and travel bikes now has 45 employees and $5 million in annual sales. Nearly all of the company’s products (90 percent) are shipped out of Oregon and a third are shipped out of the country, Scholz said. Bike Friday has a unique enough product that it actually exports bikes to China at a time when most bikes sold in the United States are made in China, he said. All we can say is, thank YOU to our 20,000+ community of happy travelers who own and ride our bikes! Without you, Bike Friday would still be a doodle on the Scholz's thick ideas pad ... |