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Luc Debaillie
Luc Debaillie is a Belgium, Belgian businessman. He is the chairman and managing director of ''Voeders Debaillie'', and chairman of the board of directors of ''De Vervoersverzekeringen''. He was appointed director of Almanij in 1976 and when in 2005, Almanij merged with KBC to form the KBC Group, he became a member of the board of the new group. Together with several other families of the Almanij group, he was one of the investors in the Asphales holding of Piet Van Waeyenberge. Sources De geschiedenis van N.V. Voeders DebaillieRaad van bestuur nieuwe KBC Groep Belgian businesspeople Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{Belgium-business-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belgium
Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to the southwest, and the North Sea to the northwest. It covers an area of and has a population of more than 11.5 million, making it the 22nd most densely populated country in the world and the 6th most densely populated country in Europe, with a density of . Belgium is part of an area known as the Low Countries, historically a somewhat larger region than the Benelux group of states, as it also included parts of northern France. The capital and largest city is Brussels; other major cities are Antwerp, Ghent, Charleroi, Liège, Bruges, Namur, and Leuven. Belgium is a sovereign state and a federal constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary system. Its institutional organization is complex and is structured on both regional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Almanij
Almanij (for ''Algemene'' ''Maatschappij'' voor ''Nijverheidskrediet'', "General Company for Industry") was a Belgian holding company active in financial services, created in 1931 and merged into KBC Group in March 2005. History Almanij was incorporated in 1931 as an initiative of the Catholic Algemeene Bankvereeniging, a Belgian bank founded by the ''Leuvense Volksbank'' (Leuven) in Antwerp in 1921. This was done in order to regroup its industrial holdings in Belgium and Hungary. In 1935, the Middenkredietkas went nearly bankrupt due to the economic crisis, which led to the establishment of the ''Kredietbank'' of which Almanij became a shareholder. The Catholic ''Boerenbond'' (E: Belgian Farmers’ Union) created its own network of savings banks: CERA instead of relying on the Middenkredietkas, which was closely related to the Algemeene Bankvereeniging. In 1949, the ''Kredietbank Luxembourgeoise'' was founded in Luxembourg, which specialized in private banking. In 1997, Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KBC Group
KBC Group is a Belgian universal multi-channel bank-insurer, focusing on private clients and small and medium-sized enterprises in Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia. It was created in 1998 through the merger of Kredietbank (KB), the cooperative , ABB Insurance, and Fidelitas Insurance. The acronym KBC refers to KredietBank and CERA. KBC Group is one of Belgium's major companies and the second largest bancassurer in the country. As of late 2020, it was the 15th largest bank in Europe by market capitalisation and a major financial player in Central and Eastern Europe, employing some 41,000 staff (of which more than half in Central and Eastern Europe) and serving 12 million customers worldwide (some 7 to 8 million in Central and Eastern Europe). KBC is a Forbes Global 2000 company. The group is controlled by a group of core shareholders, and has a free float of approximately 60%. The core shareholders include KBC Ancora, a listed company controlled by CERA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asphales
The Asphales holding, now Fortales, was founded by Piet Van Waeyenberge in 1988. History In the wake of the attempted take-over of the Société Générale de Belgique by Carlo De Benedetti, Piet Van Waeyenberge wanted to create an investment instrument to provide for capital for Belgian companies in order to prevent hostile foreign takeovers. Several Belgian businesspeople participated in the holding, such as Paul Janssen (Janssen Pharmaceutica), the Santens family, the ''Holdifima group'' of the families Plouvier-Kreglinger. Later on the families Debaillie, Sabbe (ex-Prado), Moortgat ( Duvel Moortgat Brewery) and Versele ( Versele-Laga) joined the initiative. The holding bought shares of ', a large Belgian insurer, one of the predecessors of what would become Fortis. See also * Almanij Almanij (for ''Algemene'' ''Maatschappij'' voor ''Nijverheidskrediet'', "General Company for Industry") was a Belgian holding company active in financial services, created in 1931 and mer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piet Van Waeyenberge
Piet Paul August, Baron Van Waeyenberge (born Ghent, 27 October 1938) is a Belgian businessman. He is a son of Camille Van Waeyenberge and a brother of Jozef Van Waeyenberge. He was one of the founders, and is currently president, of business club De Warande. He is married to Wina Proesmans and together they have 3 children. Biography He graduated in 1956 from high school at the Sint-Jan Berchmanscollege in Brussels and obtained a licentiate in Commercial and Financial Sciences at the Catholic University of Louvain in 1960. In 1962 he obtained a Master of Science in Agricultural Economics at the University of Illinois Champaign ( Urbana, IL USA) and in 1963 a Master of Business Administration at INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France). In 1978, he attended the six-week Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School (Cambridge, US. During his professional career he held several positions in companies, such as chairman of De Eik n.v, De Warande vzw, Indufin s.a., and of Cultura ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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