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Outdoor Gear Canada to distribute Redline Bicycles

REDLINEOn Tuesday, Outdoor Gear Canada (OGC) announced that they will be distributing Redline Bicycles in Canada. The company will focus on Redline’s BMX line as a part of OGC’s BMX line-up of brands in 2015. In addition to carrying Redline, OGC is also distributing Fiend, Federal, Merritt, Eclat, Fuse and Salt brands.

“After an extensive study of the Canadian bicycle market we felt that Outdoor Gear Canada has the best infrastructure, marketing knowledge and sales network to build a robust business for Redline BMX in Canada. We are very excited to be partnering with OGC,” said Chris Speyer the CEO and President of Accell North America. Chris Speyer a native of Kitchener-Waterloo became the CEO of Accell North America following a stint as the director of product development at Raleigh Bicycles. Speyer became vice-president of the company shortly thereafter. In 2012, when the Dutch holding company Accell bought Raleigh, Speyer was promoted to become the executive vice-president and eventually CEO in the spring of 2013.

OGC who is based in Montreal remains as one of the more prevalent bicycle distributions centres in Canada.