KICKER Traveled to Johannesburg South Africa to Work with Distributor PlanetWorld

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA (09.07.23) – On Saturday night August 19th John Myers and David Glasgow boarded their flight from Stillwater OK to Johannesburg for the 9100 mile flight….with a few flight airport stops along the way. The total roundtrip travel time topped 56 hours.

John Myers (L) and David Glasgow seated on Saturday night August 19th for the 9100 mile flight to Johannesburg South Africa from KICKER land.
The stage was set for the Dealer Show evening at the PlanetWorld HQ. Note the VEGAS lights in front of the stage spotlighting the trip to SEMA drawing.

Their schedule included working with the PlanetWorld team at the company’s headquarters, visiting KICKER dealers served by PlanetWorld and concluding the week long trip with a dealer show evening hosted by PlanetWorld.

“The guys at Planet World knocked it out of the park for the Dealer Show night! We had a 45 minute product training session followed up by a break with open bar and food. A company hired by PlanetWorld set up a mini Casino in the parking lot. Dealers attending were all given “KICKER” money to play with as the company taught all how to play craps, poker, roulette, and blackjack. This part of the event was so much fun” Myer related.

Dealers having fun during casino night.
 Luke Rochester, Quewen Webb, Johan Venter, Denzil Williamson, David Glasgow and John Myers grab a photo op after the drawing for the trip to SEMA. Venter and Williamson were the drawing winners.

After the break all went back for another hour for some integration and testing tool training. This was to help attendees learn how to diagnose the audio systems in newer cars with a RTA, oscilloscope and mulitmeter.

After the training was over, Dave and Quewen drew the lucky winners randomly from the box of tokens for the special trip to this years SEMA show. The winners Johan Venter and Denzil Williamson who will be arriving in Las Vegas from Saturday to Thursday during SEMA and then off to Stillwater to take a tour through the KICKER facility and another fun event planned by Dave Glasgow at KICKER.

David Glasgow (L) reaches into the box of tickets that Quewen Webb holds for the trip to Vegas for SEMA.
John Myers conducting the training to diagnose audio systems in newer cars.

“The guys from Johannesburg KICKER dealer LA Sports won the drawing by selling product and collecting tokens set for order requirements. They were so excited” Myers concluded.

John Myers is Sr. Global Trainer and Media Custom Projects Specialist and David Glasgow is the International Sales Manager.

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