Giant Group confirms the passing of its founder, whose vision built the world’s largest bicycle manufacturer and helped globalise Taiwan’s cycling industry.

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“To Giant Group, Mr Liu was not only our Founder, but a leader who consistently guided the organisation forward while remaining attentive to the people around him,” the company said in a statement.

Liu’s path to building the largest global bicycle manufacturer was far from direct. In his youth, he was considered a jack-of-all-trades who worked in his family’s eel-farming business. But when a typhoon destroyed the family business, Liu was in need of a career shift. He entered the bicycle business in the early 1970s, initially believing building bikes would be simple. Instead, Liu found the work far more complex. But he was up for the challenge.

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