Shimano Group was established in 192 1, and its head office was established in Osaka, Japan. After the development of 100 years (192 1-202 1), its subsidiaries spread all over 17 countries, becoming a multinational group company specializing in manufacturing and selling bicycle parts, fishing gear, skis and golf supplies. Founder: Shimano Saburo (Shimano, Saburo).

Shimano has such a wide range of fans and reputation in the world, mainly because it uses the design idea of functional system to guide the production of bicycle parts. Shimano broke the previous static thinking of designing with a single part as the core, boldly adopted the dynamic design method with functional parts as the purpose and the comprehensive function of bicycle system as the key link, established its unique functional system design idea and created many revolutionary products.