TPI September 2023

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International agents from 25 countries meet at Schroeder Valves HQ The German manufacturer Schroeder Valves recently hosted a meeting of its 40 international sales partners. The agents came from a total of 25 countries – from A for Australia to U for the USA – to the headquarters of Schroeder Valves in the picturesque countryside east of Cologne, Germany. Since the company generates more than 70 per cent of its sales abroad, it used the four-day presence of its international sales representatives to thank them for their commitment and to deepen their expertise as well as to bond as a team. “It is important to us that our colleagues from Chile, India or South Korea get to know each other personally and can exchange ideas with their colleagues from Egypt, Turkey or Canada,” explained head of sales Martin Treibel. They had plenty of opportunity to do so at various joint meals and in several workshops on strategic and sales related topics. The summer party was attended not only by the international agents, but also by the local employees and their families. They enjoyed the good food and the performance of the Cologne rock band Dave Zwieback. Singer Eddie Leo Schruff even got the Americans and Italians to sing a few lines in Kölsch, the dialect spoken in Cologne.

Forty sales partners from all over the world came to the headquarters of Schroeder Valves in Germany

On Sunday, the agents were bused to Oberhausen, where they put their tee-off skills to the test on the Topgolf course – a sweaty affair in the high summer temperatures. In the evening, they replenished their fluids with a locally brewed beer. The next day, everyone returned to their five different continents. Schroeder Valves are specialists for pump protection valves. For more than 70 years, the company has been offering its customers high levels of precision technology. Schroeder Valves GmbH & Co KG www.schroeder-valves.com

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