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Tiffany Hsu, Inside Giant's Taiwan Bicycle Factories. Los Angeles Times, May 4, 2015 (video).
www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-g ... 20150504-story.html

four consecutive paragraphs:

"Giant launched in 1972 making bike parts for companies such as Schwinn Bicycle Co but introduced its own brand in 1981 after losing [parts] orders to China.

"Not long after, Giant and its Taiwanese rivals decided to focus on high-end bikes to distinguish themselves from the cheaper models churned out by Chinese competitors.

"Nearly 90% of the manufacturing process [at Giant] is completed by hand. But the warehouse [as opposed to the manufacturing] is almost completely automated, relying on a computerized system that tracks shipments and inventory and allows Giant to keep its storage space slim.

"Lo said that many of the so-called advanced manufacturing techniques were copied from Toyota Motor Corp, a fact often repeated by executives at other factories in the region [The report does not specify whether "the region" alludes to East Asia, or that part of Taiwan].

Note:
(a) "He’s [Tony Lo 羅祥安 執行長 is] chief executive of Giant Manufacturing Co 捷安特, a Taiwan-based company with US headquarters in Newbury Park that calls itself the world’s largest bicycle producer by revenue. * * * Last year, Giant said, it sold 6.6 million bikes and generated $1.9 billion in sales. * * * Lo and his wife own 18 bikes."

Newbury Park, California
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newbury_Park,_California
(The community of Newbury Park is western neighbor of City of Thousand Oaks in Ventura County)
(b) "Giant’s original manufacturing and assembly plant in the Dajia District of Taichung City"

臺中市大甲區
(c) Schwinn Bicycle Company
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwinn_Bicycle_Company
(founded by German-born mechanical engineer Ignaz Schwinn (1860–1945) in Chicago in 1895; after declaring bankruptcy in 1992, it is a sub-brand of Pacific Cycle, owned by the multi-national conglomerate, Dorel Industries)

* The German surname Schwinn: "of uncertain origin"
Dictionary of American Family Names, by Oxford University Press.