Specialized moots staff cuts at Rutland Cycling following takeover

Bike brand takes over 12 Rutland Cycling stores in Midlands as well as online presence

Specialized logo on a bike frame
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Specialized UK has said it may have to cut staff at newly acquired bike shop chain Rutland Cycling to make its business "sustainable". 

The American bike brand announced today it had taken over the family-owned Rutland Cycling business, first founded in the 1980s.

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Tom Thewlis
News and Features Writer

After previously working in higher education, Tom joined Cycling Weekly in 2022 and hasn't looked back. He's been covering professional cycling ever since; reporting on the ground from some of the sport's biggest races and events, including the Tour de France, Paris-Roubaix and the World Championships. His earliest memory of a bike race is watching the Tour on holiday in the early 2000's in the south of France - he even made it on to the podium in Pau afterwards. His favourite place that cycling has taken him is Montréal in Canada.