Timbuk2
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Timbuk2 is a San Francisco
-based messenger bags company. It was established in San Francisco in 1989 by former bike messenger Rob Honeycutt
. The company was originally named Scumbags, but founder Honeycutt changed the name to Timbuk2 Designs in 1990. The name Timbuk2 was inspired in part by the American rock band Timbuk3 and the company's swirl logo was designed by Honeycutt and is meant to mimic the rotation of a bike wheel.
Timbuk2 founder Honeycutt was fascinated by "just in time" manufacturing. He studied the Toyota manufacturing model and developed the Timbuk2 Classic Messenger bag pattern to be able to accommodate custom orders from independent bike dealers in San Francisco. While its product line has since expanded beyond custom bags, Timbuk2 has continually designed and manufactured all its custom products in San Francisco's Mission neighborhood since 1989. Timbuk2 is one of the few remaining manufacturing facilities operating in San Francisco. In 2011, Timbuk2 launched a Bicycle Share Program in its retail store.
Timbuk2 is owned by the Irvine, California
private equity firm VMG Equity Partners.
San Francisco, California
San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...
-based messenger bags company. It was established in San Francisco in 1989 by former bike messenger Rob Honeycutt
Rob Honeycutt
Rob Honeycutt is an American entrepreneur, bag maker, and former bike messenger. He is the founder of three bag making companies: Timbuk2, Zuluworks, and Rickshaw Bagworks. Rob founded Timbuk2 as a one man operation in 1989, making bags in his apartment in the Duboce Triangle neighborhood of San...
. The company was originally named Scumbags, but founder Honeycutt changed the name to Timbuk2 Designs in 1990. The name Timbuk2 was inspired in part by the American rock band Timbuk3 and the company's swirl logo was designed by Honeycutt and is meant to mimic the rotation of a bike wheel.
Timbuk2 founder Honeycutt was fascinated by "just in time" manufacturing. He studied the Toyota manufacturing model and developed the Timbuk2 Classic Messenger bag pattern to be able to accommodate custom orders from independent bike dealers in San Francisco. While its product line has since expanded beyond custom bags, Timbuk2 has continually designed and manufactured all its custom products in San Francisco's Mission neighborhood since 1989. Timbuk2 is one of the few remaining manufacturing facilities operating in San Francisco. In 2011, Timbuk2 launched a Bicycle Share Program in its retail store.
Timbuk2 is owned by the Irvine, California
Irvine, California
Irvine is a suburban incorporated city in Orange County, California, United States. It is a planned city, mainly developed by the Irvine Company since the 1960s. Formally incorporated on December 28, 1971, the city has a population of 212,375 as of the 2010 census. However, the California...
private equity firm VMG Equity Partners.