Gregory Goes There

Gregory recently held its annual sales meeting about an hour or so from the home office at a small resort on the California Coast that’s a great spot to combine work and the outdoors. Reps from around the world converged for a couple of days to talk business, see preliminary designs for next season, and of course hike, mountain bike, surf and sea kayak.

Really, business did get done …

Some of the reps from farther afield often take the opportunity of being in California to make a more full trip of it. Harry Kondo, the company’s Asia Pacific sales and marketing manager, based in Japan, headed south after the meeting to surf.

Being an avid climber, Thomas Strobl, from Invia, Gregory’s distributor  in Germay, Austria and Switzerland, often takes advantage of trips to Gregory HQ by building in a few extra days and making the pilgrimage a few hours south and east to one of the meccas of the climbing world, Yosemite Park.

On this trip, before headed to the park’s granite walls, Thomas in the name of product testing stole (OK he did actually ask and got the green light with the condition that he report back with his feedback) a Serrac 35 sample from Gregory’s forthcoming Fusion LTS pack line for 2010.

Here’s a couple shots of Thomas sorting gear and eyeing a certain iconic rock route.