McGregor was established in Canada in 1928. The company has continued to evolve its business model and practices over the
decades in order to successfully deal with changing economic trends and various threats to its industry. Each challenge has
been met head on by remaining focused on McGregor's key strengths - product innovation and quality, customer service and brand
integrity.
Key achievements include the creation of a portfolio of internationally marketable brands and the recent establishment of a
multi-country, multi-region, high quality, quick-response supply chain. This supply chain includes the integration of fully
compliant international production sources with a proprietary, state-of-the-art, domestic distribution facility that is
capable of efficiently handling the sophisticated order requirements of the company's highly varied customer base.
In 1986, the Company accepted a minority investment from a large Osaka-based company in order to fund corporate expansion
into the United States. More than 50% of the Company's revenues now come from international markets. With changing conditions
in post-bubble Japan, the investor ceased to be a strategic strength and in 2004 the Company sought a replacement partner who
not only believed in management's vision for the future, but could provide support to help management execute its global
plan.
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