Holladay, UT – Backpack brand Gregory Mountain Products celebrated a ribbon cutting ceremony this week at the company’s new headquarters on the Black Diamond campus in Holladay, Utah.nState and local dignitaries, including Utah Governor Gary R. Herbert, Holladay Mayor Dennis Webb, Jeff Edwards of EDCUtah, and Spencer Eccles from GOED attended to show their support for Black Diamond’s recent merger with Gregory Mountain Products in 2010, and to celebrate the expansion of the outdoor industry’s presence throughout the state.

“It is difficult to think of outdoor recreation in Utah without thinking of Black Diamond and Peter Metcalf. Utah’s preeminence in the Outdoor Products and Recreation industry is in no small part a result of Peter’s early and earnest promotion and leadership of the industry in the state,” said Governor Herbert. “It is fitting that on the same day Black Diamond is holding this celebration of their impressive growth, Peter is being honored as ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’.”

“Black Diamond and Gregory share a deep passion for the outdoors and for designing and manufacturing some of the best technical and authentic outdoor equipment on the market,” said Peter Metcalf, co-founder, president and CEO for Black Diamond. “In the combined organization, we now have much deeper resources to strategically grow our presence in all of the markets we serve.”

Both Gregory and Black Diamond are major global players in the outdoor and ski industries, with a combined $125 million in annual revenues, and will collectively create 55 new full-time positions at the facilities in Salt Lake County over the next ten years as a result.