Flor Joosen (born
Turnhout, 30 June 1952) is a
Belgian businessman, who became well known for his
caviar business. Since 1 July 2007, he is also president of
UNIZO.
Education
Flor Joosen graduated in economics at the Instituut voor Hoger Niet-Universitaire Studies (IHNUS) in
Ghent.
Career
Flor Joosen descends from a family of
millers, and the
windmill in the
Bokrijk
The Bokrijk Provincial Domain ( nl, Provinciaal Domein Bokrijk) is a park and museum complex near Genk, Province of Limburg in Belgium. It is known for its open-air museum which displays a large collection of historical buildings from across Flan ...
museum is an old mill of the Joosen family business.
He started his career in the family business for
cattle (Joosen-Luyckx) and
fish feed (Joosen-Luyckx Aqua Bio). Later on, he became active in
poultry with Belki, a poultry
slaughterhouse
A slaughterhouse, also called abattoir (), is a facility where animals are slaughtered to provide food. Slaughterhouses supply meat, which then becomes the responsibility of a packaging facility.
Slaughterhouses that produce meat that is no ...
.
In the eighties, he wanted to improve on the fish feed and contacted
Willy Verdonck
Willy or Willie is a masculine, male given name, often a diminutive form of William or Wilhelm, and occasionally a nickname. It may refer to:
People Given name or nickname
* Willie Aames (born 1960), American actor, television director, and scree ...
at the
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
KU Leuven (or Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) is a Catholic research university in the city of Leuven, Belgium. It conducts teaching, research, and services in computer science, engineering, natural sciences, theology, humanities, medicine, l ...
. Out of this contact grew a
fishfarm
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Fish farming or ...
, which was the basis for a sturgeon nursery, and which led to the
caviar business in the early nineties of the twentieth century.
Sources
Kaviaarkweker Flor Joosen nieuwe voorzitter Unizo
Flor Joosen benoemd tot nieuwe Unizo-voorzitter
1952 births
Living people
Belgian businesspeople
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