Bianchi, which is located in Treviglio, Italy outside Milan, has been doing things their own way for a very long time. Edoardo Bianchi founded F.IV. Edoardo Bianchi S.p.A. in 1885 when he was just 21 years old.
He began the company as a small shop in Milan in 1885, and today they are the world's oldest bicycle-making company still in existence. At their height in the late 1930s and early '40s the company employed 4,500 in two Italian factories. At that time Bianchi weren't just a bicycle manufacturer, but also produced motorcycles, and even cars.
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