- What started in 2000 as a three-year plan to gain some international experience has resulted in a 17-year career as an expat manager for Daimler stalwart Jörg D. Schmidt.
- Those possibilities have taken Schmidt from Egypt to Singapore, South Africa, Russia, and Hungary.
- The market itself is more developed in Australia, built on the back of 27 years of uninterrupted economic growth, albeit there are signs it may now be slowing down.