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Škoda: From Bicycle Repair Shop to Global Automotive Leader

Tracing the Journey of Škoda from its Humble Beginnings to International Success

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7 min readJun 21, 2024

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Beyond the Beginning

In this essay, I am going to discuss about The Birth of Skoda.

Once upon a time, in the second half of the nineteenth century in a town in Bohemia, which is now part of the Czech Republic, there was a meeting that shaped the destiny of not only this region but the entire world.

Originally started out as a small bicycle repair shop called Laurin & Klement which in later years grew to be one of the respected automobile manufacturers — Skoda.

It gives me actual sense to know the story of how a bicycle repair shop expanded itself into an automotive industry giant.

He bicycled around and contributed to the improvement of the society in various ways in a way that influenced many people that lived nearby.

As for bicycle, in 1895, reading the books or Václav Klement and mechanicial Václav Laurin, they started a company by combining their love for bicycles to business.

The referred to as workshop as Laufrin and Klement initially began manufacturing bicycles. They…

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