Triumph Motorcycles (America) Ltd. sales topped 10,000 units in 2006
Triumph Motorcycles (America) Ltd.’s dealers retailed 10,726 units in the US during 2006, the first time Triumph’s retail sales have exceed 10,000 units in a single calendar year since Triumph’s return to the US in 1995. Triumph was absent from the US market for a little over a decade after the company fell on hard times in the early 1980s. Entrepreneur John Bloor purchased the brand in 1983 and relaunched it in 1990.
Today, the privately-owned Triumph is the only British motorcycle brand still producing bikes today. Triumph’s main factory is located in Hinckley, Leicestershire, and is claimed to be the most modern motorcycle manufacturing facility in the world.
Triumph’s US sales growth this year was led by the new Daytona 675, a middleweight sports bike with the company’s triple-cylinder engine. The Daytona 675 was named “International Bike of the Year” by the editors of 15 international motorcycle publications.
“All of us at Triumph are proud of achieving this important milestone,” said Mark Kennedy, Chief Executive Officer, Triumph Motorcycles (America) Ltd. “I’d especially like to thank all of our dealers who pulled out all the stops to hit our numbers this year. Now we’re all going to focus on breaking Triumphs all-time US sales record of 28,500 units which was set in 1967 within the next five years.”
(this article was taken from autoindustry.co.uk)