AKT motos

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ALKOSTO Motos
IndustryMotorcycles
FoundedEnvigado, Colombia, 2004
Websitewww.aktmotos.com

AKT motos (previously Ensambladora Corbeta S.A.) is a Colombian motorcycle company (importer and assembler), associated with , the owner of the ALKOSTO supermarkets, based principally in the city of Envigado, Antioquia Department.

History[]

The Colombian motorcycle market had been dominated by Japanese, European, and regional (Brazil, Chile) manufacturers. Noting this, a group of Colombian businessmen formed an association on 16 April 2004 to purchases Chinese technology for motors, chassis, and economical designs.[1][2]

Present activities[]

In the seven years following their founding, AKT came to capture 15% of the Colombian market.[3] As of 2012 it is one of the top five motorcycle brands in Colombia, and sold 80,000 motorbikes in 2011, of 510,000 sold nationwide.[4]

AKT imports motorcycles from Chinese[5] and Taiwanese factories such as Loncin Holdings, and SYM Motors as knock-down kits, then assembles them in a local Colombian factory.

In January 2012 AKT became a sponsor of the Colombian first division soccer team Santa Fe Corporación Deportiva.[6]

References[]

  1. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-08-28. Retrieved 2014-09-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-25. Retrieved 2014-09-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ "AKT". Archived from the original on 2011-09-29.
  4. ^ "Home".
  5. ^ Robert Evan Ellis (2009). China in Latin America: the whats and wherefores. Lynne Rienner Publishers. p. 164. ISBN 978-1-58826-650-7.
  6. ^ "Akt Motos y Kalley son los nuevos patrocinadores de Santa Fe". Terra. Archived from the original on 2014-09-10. Retrieved 2014-09-09.

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