A SPECIALISED cycle manufacturer has broken into international markets from its base in Scotland.
Kinetics builds high-end tailored folding bikes, recumbent horizontal bikes, electric and cargo bikes from a small workshop in Firhill, in Glasgow, and sells to customers from Hong Kong to California. Owner Ben Cooper has been working in the area for seven years and currently builds around 100 bikes every year for clients across the globe.
“Queens Cross can be overlooked as place to do business, but it is ideally situated, it has great communications links with the city centre and with the motorway network, it couldn’t be better placed for me,” said Cooper.
Now his landlord, Queens Cross Workspace, is looking for more companies to follow Ben’s cycleway to success. The local economic development company currently rents out around 80 affordable workshops, offices and retail units. They are now looking to increase this significantly over the next five years to help boost employment opportunities in the area.
Queens Cross Workspace is setting out its plans for growth in a new Business Plan, which launches this month.
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