Neobike actually cheated Brompton when they had a licensing agreement. Not a very nice or trustworthy company. Flamingo could do with developing their own bikes rather than cloning Bromptons and abusing the tooling and trust they were once given.
To quote another forum member EvilV on a older but related thread:
Brompton made agreements with a far eastern firm called Neobike who they later fell out with over quality and contractual matters when neobikes began to leak into Europe which was never supposed to happen. Neobike sold the drawings and tooling to others. Grace- Gallant now make them in the form sold as Merc here, but as Flamingobike elsewhere. I notice that Flamingobike have now dropped the Brompton lookalike frame and have a strange pressed alluminium girder in more or less Brompton shape, but it could never be confused for a Brompton now, unlike the Merc, which could if people didn't look closely and see what it was made of.
Source:
http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...d-brompton-MOD