Brompton founder Andrew Ritchie, London Business School, February 2017

"After receiving an engineering degree from Cambridge University in 1968, Andrew Ritchie worked in London as a computer programmer, and subsequently as a landscape gardener. In 1975, he conceived the idea of a folding bike, a completely innovative product compared to the standards of the industry.

Andrew did a first informal fundraising round among a few friends and built a first prototype “the Brompton bike”. In the following years, the Brompton Bicycle company grew to become the largest bicycle manufacturer in the UK, with more than 45,000 bikes produced each year. Today, the company employs 240 people and sells in 45 countries. Brompton bicycles are still produced in London.

Andrew has devoted most of his working life to creating and making a success of the Brompton bike. He will be telling his story, which will illustrate a few does & many don’ts in getting an enterprise going." www.tellseries.com

"Unfortunately Andrew preferred not to share the slides…"