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Article: Westphal celebrates 200 years. (G.W.A. Westphal Sohn and Co.)
- Article from:
- Tea & Coffee Trade Journal
- Article date:
- December 1, 1996
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It's not often that a company reaches its 200th anniversary but when G.W.A. Westphal Sohn & Co. took a chance on a little known product called tea, it became one of the major suppliers of tea worldwide. We congratulate them on their honorable anniversary.
Over 400 guests participated at the festive ceremony marking the bicentennial of G.W.A. Westphal Sohn & Co. on October 1, 1996, at the Church of St. Katharinen, one of Hamburg's five major churches.
G.W.A. Westphal is only a few yards from the church of St. Katharinen on the other side of a canal which separates the city of Hamburg from the free port area.
When Gottlieb Wilhelm Alexander Westphal ...