Here's a great article posted on the Weber.com blog about the creators of the Weber Genesis gas grill and the effort that went into the product, which celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2015.
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CLASS OF´85: THE CREATORS OF THE GENESIS
The year was 1982, and they knew it was time for action. All three could sense that they could not afford to miss this wave – whatever it cost. The only option was to start again from scratch – turning the company’s world view upside down and doing what no one else had succeeded in doing. They faced an enormous challenge – but they had done it before, so why not again?
Three work colleagues have gathered at Weber’s restaurant in Schaumburg, near the outskirts of Chicago.
The invention of the Genesis was lead by engineer Erich Schlosser (left), Mike Kempster (middle) and Jim Stephen (right) who at that time were National Sales Manager and Gas Sales Manager, respectively.
But they have also been friends for many years. Each carries memories from 30-40 years of service to the barbecue – impressions and experiences which bind them together with an invisible bond. It is a gathering of legends’ when names like Jim Stephen, the son of Weber’s founder, Mike Kempster, who’s Executive Vice President of Weber and Senior Project Engineer Erich Schlosser meet – three men who reinvented barbecuing precisely 30 years ago through a watershed invention. A feat no one had foreseen, and which they had hardly dared to believe possible.
Read the full article on Weber.com
Class Of´85: The Creators Of The Genesis | Behind the Grill | Weber Grills
THIS YEAR MARKS 30 YEARS SINCE WEBER LAUNCHED GENESIS – the gas grill which revolutionized barbecuing like the kettle grill did 33 years earlier.
www.weber.com
CLASS OF´85: THE CREATORS OF THE GENESIS
The year was 1982, and they knew it was time for action. All three could sense that they could not afford to miss this wave – whatever it cost. The only option was to start again from scratch – turning the company’s world view upside down and doing what no one else had succeeded in doing. They faced an enormous challenge – but they had done it before, so why not again?
Three work colleagues have gathered at Weber’s restaurant in Schaumburg, near the outskirts of Chicago.
The invention of the Genesis was lead by engineer Erich Schlosser (left), Mike Kempster (middle) and Jim Stephen (right) who at that time were National Sales Manager and Gas Sales Manager, respectively.
But they have also been friends for many years. Each carries memories from 30-40 years of service to the barbecue – impressions and experiences which bind them together with an invisible bond. It is a gathering of legends’ when names like Jim Stephen, the son of Weber’s founder, Mike Kempster, who’s Executive Vice President of Weber and Senior Project Engineer Erich Schlosser meet – three men who reinvented barbecuing precisely 30 years ago through a watershed invention. A feat no one had foreseen, and which they had hardly dared to believe possible.
Read the full article on Weber.com
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