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Yes. The TI stands for Tube Investments, the company that drove Raleigh into the ground...
Tube Investments now lost patience with Raleigh. TI decided to sell the company and, on 1st April 1987, it was bought by Derby International.
*TI’s 27-year ownership of Raleigh, under successive MDs Leslie Roberts, Tom Barnsley, Ian Phillips, Rowley Jarvis and Bob Ing, had seen market share drop from 75% to 36%. Under TI, Raleigh was smothered: a relatively small division, unable to make important decisions without reference to higher authority. *
*There was a feeling within Raleigh that its bosses were not really in charge. TI seemed more interested in filling in five-year plans, rather than making decisions. It was a huge conglomerate including not only industrial tubing but consumer products such as Creda cookers, Russell Hobbs kettles and Tower saucepans. *
TI did not see bicycles as being interesting or particularly profitable.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~hadland/raleigh.htm#_Toc485366705