sentences:  In 1996, the parent company of Raleigh Bicycle Company, Derby Cycle, absorbed Univega along with the Nishiki brand of bicycles.Ben Lawee, who was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1926, emigrated to the United States on a freighter in his teens.While attending Columbia University in New York he worked at the bicycle shop of a Greek Cypriot, George Joannou, and subsequently moved to California as West Coast sales representative for Joannou Cycle Co. Lawee ventured out on his own when he purchased the venerable Jones Bicycle shop in Long Beach, CA in 1959; growing a single store into a multi-store chain.