Don: Gazelle was sold in 2001 to a Dutch private investment fund, Gilde Buy Out Fund. This info can be found on http://www.rijwqiel.net, unfortunately only in Dutch.
Freek Faro Rotterdam Netherlands
2009/4/13 donald gillies <gillies@ece.ubc.ca>
> I was looking at a Gazelle timeline history, which said that Gazelle
> was bought by Raleigh (actually, by TI) in 1971, but I could not find
> out when it was sold - or is Gazelle still owned by Derby in Kent,
> Washington (didn't they go bankrupt)? Can someone shed some light on
> this ??
>
> http://www.gazellebicycles.com.au/
>
> I had a 1972 raleigh grand prix made by Gazelle, and frankly, the
> Gazelle-made grand prix models were often better-made with cleaner
> brazing than the Nottingham and Carlton Grand Prix models. I have
> seen clean Gazelle Grand-Prix's sell for $250 on ebay, and worth it.
>
> According to Raoul Delmare, the Gazelle Tour D'Avenir is the
> Gazelle-Equivalent of a Raleigh Grand Prix :
>
>
> http://search.bikelist.org/
>
> - Don Gillies
> San Diego, CA, USA