Monarch Cycle Manufacturing Company

Monarch Cycle Manufacturing Company
IndustryBicycle manufacturing
PredecessorChicago Sewing Machine Company
Founded1892; 132 years ago (1892) in Chicago, U.S.
FounderJohn William Kiser
Defunct1899 (1899)
SuccessorBicycle Trust
Headquarters
42 Halsted Street, Chicago
ProductsBicycles
Number of employees
1200 (1896)

Monarch Cycle Manufacturing Company (1892-1899) was a bicycle manufacturer based in Chicago, Illinois. By 1896 the company became one of the largest manufacturers of bicycles in the world.