Sheppard Industries Ltd was founded in 1982 by John Struthers. In 2015 Scott Sports SA and John Struthers entered into an agreement to establish two new jointly owned companies to be called Sheppard Cycles Australia and Sheppard Cycles New Zealand. Sheppard Cycles is Australasia’s largest cycling company, and supervises the largest chain of branded Independent Bike Dealer retail stores, ‘AvantiPlus’, in Australia and New Zealand.