Written by Rizal Raoul Reyes of BusinessMirror
BACK in 1968, current chairman of HAMBURG Trading Corporation, Horst Kessler von Sprengeisen, received an assignment for just a limited time in the firm’s parent company in the Philippines.
But his stay was to be extended at length in the country, which he now considers his second home. What was initially a 90-day stint lasted for about 600 months—or 50 years, to be exact.
