Hutch was started by Richard Hutchins, a bike shop owner in Maryland who in 1979 put his bike ideas into motion and started his own company. Profile designed and manufactured the first Hutch frames up until 1982 or so. Later Speed Unlimited, makers of the racing bikes called Thruster, took over production. At some point Hutch brought manufacturing in-house, but that would be short lived as eventually the strain of competing against companies like Haro and GT combined forced them to move production overseas. The catch here was that GT and Haro had been building stuff in Taiwan, yet somehow managed to save face and present themselves as all-American and still sell bikes. When Hutch built their frames in Taiwan they pretty much signed their death certificate as nobody wanted a Taiwan-made Hutch and for a good reason… most of them were pretty bad.