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Cycles Marinoni

Canadian-owned · made in Canada · based in Quebec

Steel, carbon and titanium road, gravel, track and touring bicycles built at Cycles Marinoni's own factory in Terrebonne, Quebec since 1974, sold direct by appointment rather than through dealers.

Terrebonne, QC CA · www.marinonicycles.com

Cycles Marinoni is a Terrebonne, Quebec frame builder founded in 1974 by racing cyclist Giuseppe Marinoni, making steel, carbon and titanium road, gravel, track and touring bicycles that it markets as made in Quebec, and selling them only direct from its own factory by appointment since discontinuing its dealer network.

Factors

Ownership

100.0 inferred

CA 100%

The vendor's own pages name only 'Cycles Marinoni Inc.' with no parent company, private equity, or foreign investor anywhere on the site, and Corporations Canada's federal registry returned zero results, consistent with a Quebec provincial incorporation. The Registraire des entreprises du Quebec could not be checked by direct fetch. Founder Giuseppe Marinoni is widely known to have run the company personally; whether he is still alive and, if not, who now owns or operates the business could not be verified from Wikipedia, the vendor's site, or any other fetchable source, so this mix assumes continued closely-held Canadian ownership without confirmation.

Manufacturing

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The vendor's home page and every model page checked, including a steel frame (Piccolo), a carbon monocoque frame (Dea), and the titanium Piuma Ti, carry the same 'Made in Quebec since 1974' / 'Fabrique au Quebec depuis 1974' claim with no separate country named for carbon or titanium construction. The distribution page names Columbus as the supplier of frame tubes and forks but does not say where final frame building happens, so whether carbon frames are laid up in Quebec itself, versus finished there from an imported shell, could not be verified beyond this blanket marketing claim.

People

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The vendor's stockists page says Marinoni bikes are now available exclusively at 'our factory' by appointment, and the contact page gives a single phone number and email with no other office named; Wikipedia corroborates a single Terrebonne, Quebec head office. No second site or foreign staff is named anywhere on the site.

Inputs

41.0 inferred

EU 70% · other 30%

Marinoni's own distribution page lists the component brands it builds bikes with and supplies to dealers: frame tubing from Columbus and drivetrains from Campagnolo, plus wheels, tires, and finishing kit from Ambrosio, Fulcrum, Miche, FFWD, Vredestein, Deda Elementi, Nalini, Prologo, and Vittoria, nearly all Italian or other EU manufacturers, alongside a smaller set of Taiwan-made parts (Tektro brakes, Wellgo pedals, Giyo pumps) and a China-made bike computer (iGPSport). No page gives a bill of materials for a specific model, so this split is an estimate weighted toward that EU-heavy brand list; the CANADA List has no entry for Marinoni to corroborate it.

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