KTM AG

The activities of the motorcycle brands KTM, Husqvarna Motorcycles and GASGAS, as well as the component manufacturer WP Suspension, are now bundled in KTM AG. As Europe’s largest manufacturer of premium powered two-wheelers, it is one of the three value-added pillars of the PIERER Mobility Group.

With its independent brands, KTM AG currently employs over 4,000 people. In close collaboration with 31 international sales and distribution organisations, the KTM AG workforce looks after the needs of more than 3,000 dealers and importers worldwide on behalf of KTM Sportmotorcycle GmbH, Husqvarna Motorcycles GmbH and GASGAS Motorcycles GmbH, in addition to a growing network of authorised WP centres.

The product portfolio covers all relevant motorcycle segments in the 50 to 1,300 cc displacement classes and is constantly expanding. Quite apart from that, KTM also pioneered electric mobility for two-wheelers with the launch of the electric Freeride E in 2014. The group’s electric sports motorcycle segment has since been expanded to include sportsminicycles (SX-E, EE5 and the MC-E 5).

Innovation is just as important. For KTM AG, it is the focus of the development of safe and reliable, market-driven products of the highest quality. This applies in particular to the powertrain systems as technological core elements of a motorcycle. Regardless of whether they are based on highly efficient combustion engines or new types of electric motors, their characteristics underscore the identity of the KTM, Husqvarna and GASGAS brand motorcycles and their positioning in the marketplace.

In 1934 Hans Trunkenpolz founded a repair workshop in Mattighofen and started selling DKW motorcycles. In 1951 the company started designing a motorcycle of its own. The company, then called “Kronreif, Trunkenpolz, Mattighofen”, took up racing. In the 1960s the KTM engine designed by Ludwig Apfelbeck gained its first victories. In the 1970s and 1980s FIM world championship success arrived, which laid the foundations of today´s offroad thoroughbred. At the end of the 1980s the motorcycle industry hit hard times and in 1991 KTM Motorfahrzeugbau AG had to file for bankruptcy. One year later, the newly formed KTM motorcycle division KTM Sportmotorcycle GmbH re-opened and began again. KTM expands its motorsport commitment, launched new products and acquired both WP Suspension and HUSABERG and moved into a newly built factory in 1999. A constantly growing team of staff and experts has the ability to annually present product highlights and new innovation. After taking over the Husqvarna Motorcycle brand in 2013, the successful integration of the GASGAS brand into the group represented another important step.