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BEL 20
The BEL 20 is the benchmark stock market index of Euronext, Euronext Brussels. It tracks the performance of 20 most capitalized and liquid stocks traded in Belgium. In general, the index consists of a minimum of 10 and a maximum of 20 companies traded at the Brussels Stock Exchange. Since 20 June 2011, the BEL20 has contained 20 listings, with the exception a one-month period in May–June 2018 when Ablynx stock was removed following the takeover by Sanofi, only to be replaced mid June by . Rules The composition of the BEL 20 index is reviewed annually based on closing prices on the last Friday in February. These changes are effective after the third Friday of March. In addition to meeting a set of criteria demanding a company be "representative of the Belgium, Belgian equity market", at least 15% of its shares must be considered Float (finance), free float in order to qualify for the index. In addition, a candidate for inclusion must possess a free float market capitalization ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ackermans & Van Haaren
Ackermans & van Haaren (often abbreviated as AvH) is a diversified group active in: Marine Engineering & Contracting (DEME, one of the largest dredging companies in the world - CFE, a construction group with headquarters in Belgium), Private Banking ( Delen Private Bank, one of the largest independent private asset managers in Belgium, and asset manager JM Finn in the UK - Bank Van Breda, niche bank for entrepreneurs and the liberal professions in Belgium), Real estate (Nextensa, a listed integrated real estate group), Energy & Resources (SIPEF, an agroindustrial group in tropical agriculture), and Growth Capital. The group focuses on a limited number of strategic participations with a significant potential for growth. AvH is listed on Euronext Brussels and is included in the BEL20 index and the European DJ Stoxx 600 index. History The company was founded in 1880 as a dredging company. Although Ackermans & van Haaren is now a holding company, it is still active in the dredging sec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syensqo
Syensqo (pronounced “Science Co.”) is a Belgian multinational materials company, headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. It was established in December 2023, through the spin-off from Solvay. The current CEO is Ilham Kadri, who previously was the CEO of Solvay. Syensqo has been publicly listed since December 11, 2023 and joined the BEL20 soon after. The company is present globally with 62 industrial sites and 12 major R&D centers, and it employs 13,000 people in 30 countries. History In 2022, Solvay announced the intention to separate into two independent stock listed companies: Solvay and Syensqo. Solvay would retain its historic soda ash, Peroxides, Silica, and Coatis production, as well as the Specialty Chemicals division. The Materials, Composites, and Solutions divisions were split off into Syensqo. The goal of separating the two companies was to give independence and flexibility in pursuing different strategies. The name Syensqo is explained as follows: SY represents t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solvay S
Solvay may refer to: Companies and organizations * Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Brussels, Belgium * Solvay Institute of Sociology, Brussels, Belgium, part of the Université Libre de Bruxelles * Solvay Process Company (1880–1985), a former U.S. company that employed the Solvay process * Solvay S.A., an international chemicals and plastics company founded by Ernest Solvay Places * Solvay, New York, a village in New York, United States * Mount Solvay, part of Belgica Mountains in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica * Solvay Mountains, Brabant Island, off the coast of Antarctica Buildings * Solvay Castle, La Hulpe, Belgium * Hôtel Solvay, a town house in Brussels, Belgium * Solvay Hut, a mountain hut on the Matterhorn, Switzerland People * Ernest Solvay (1838–1922), Belgian chemist, inventor of the Solvay process * Lucien Solvay (1851–1950), Belgian journalist, art historian, and poet * Paolo Solvay, pseudonym of Luigi Batzella (1924–2008), Italia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofina
Sofina, ''Société Financière de Transports et d'Entreprises Industrielles'', is a Belgian holding company, headquartered in Brussels with offices in Singapore and Luxembourg. As part of the Bel20 index, it is one of the twenty largest capitalisation in Belgium. The company invests in several industrial sectors such as telecommunication (7%), banks and insurance (6%), private equity (6%), B2B (18%), consumer goods (31%), energy (6%), food distribution (8%) and various other sectors (10%). Geographically, Sofina has investments located in Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, China, India and North America. History The company was founded in 1898. It was led from 1905 until 1955 by the Belgian-American engineer of German origin Dannie Heineman (1872-1962). Historically, the company owned the Anglo-Argentine Tramways Company, which was one of the largest tram operators in the world at the time. From 1955 on, the current family shareholders star ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lotus Bakeries
Lotus Bakeries NV is a Belgian multinational snack food company founded in 1932. Based in Lembeke, Kaprijke, the company's best known product is Speculoos (known as Biscoff in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Japan, Australia and South Africa). Other Lotus brands include nākd, TREK, BEAR, Kiddylicious, Peter’s Yard, Dinosaurus, Peijnenburg, and Annas. Lotus Bakeries has production facilities in Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Sweden, South Africa and the United States. A third production facility for Biscoff is being built in Thailand and will be operational by 2026. Lotus Bakeries is active in about 70 countries in Europe, America, Asia, and Australia. The company has about 3,000 employees and its revenue was EUR 1,063.0 million in 2023. Since 1988 the shares of Lotus Bakeries have been listed on Euronext Brussels The Brussels Stock Exchange ( ; ), abbreviated to BSE, was founded in Brussels, Belgium, by decree of Napoleon in 1801. In 2002, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KBC Bank
KBC Group N.V. 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 stands for 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Groupe Bruxelles Lambert
Groupe Bruxelles Lambert (GBL) is a Belgian holding company invested in multiple industries. It invests in both listed and private companies. Directed by Ian Gallienne, GBL had a net asset value of €22.5 billion and a market capitalisation of €15.3 billion at the end of September 2021. GBL is controlled by Pargesa S.A., a Swiss entity which holds 29.13% of the outstanding shares and 44.23% of the voting rights. Pargesa S.A. itself is held jointly by the Power Corporation of Canada and Frère groups, providing GBL with a stable and solid shareholder base. Since 1990, the two groups have been bound by a shareholders' agreement. This agreement, which was extended in December 2012 until 2029, includes an extension possibility. History The company now known as GBL was founded in 1972, when Léon Lambert's two holding companies, (CLIF) and Cofinter, merged with Brufina and Cofinindus, two holding entities associated with the so-called Groupe de Launoit founded by . The new com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galapagos NV
Galapagos NV (formerly known as Galapagos Genomics) is a Belgian pharmaceutical research company which was founded in 1999. Its headquarters are located in Mechelen and has additional locations in Leiden, Romainville, Basel, Milan, Madrid, Boston and Zagreb. The company develops drugs against rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, psoriasis, systemic lupus erythematosus and cystic fibrosis. History Galapagos Genomics NV was founded in 1999 as a joint venture between Crucell and Tibotec. The company later changed its name to Galapagos NV and completed its initial public offering on Euronext Amsterdam and Euronext Brussels in May 2005. The company uses a technological platform for its research, which is based on adenoviruses to introduce human gene sequences into a wide variety of human cell lines to knock-in or knock-down specific proteins. In 2019, Gilead Sciences and Galapagos entered into transformative research and development collaboration. Gilead and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elia System Operator
Elia is a Belgian transmission system operator for high-voltage electricity (30,000–380,000 volts), located in Brussels, Belgium. It operates in Belgium and Germany. The company transmits electricity from generators to distribution system operators, which then supply SMEs and homes. Elia also has contracts with major industrial users that directly connect to its high-voltage grid. Elia's main activities include managing grid infrastructure (maintaining and developing high-voltage installations), managing the electrical system (monitoring flows, maintaining the balance between electricity consumption and generation 24/7, importing and exporting to and from neighbouring countries) and facilitating the market (developing services and mechanisms with a view to developing the electricity market at national and European level). Elia Group also offers consulting and engineering services through a subsidiary Elia Grid International (EGI), founded in 2014. History Elia was created as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
D'Ieteren
D'Ieteren Group SA/NV is a company, based in Belgium that is engaged in automobile distribution and vehicle glass repair and replacement (VGRR) and other industrial activities related to spare parts. History Founded by master coachbuilder Joseph-Jean D'Ieteren in 1805, who began his first venture in coachbuilding and wheelwrighting, establishing a workshop on the . In 1857, his son Alexandre D'Ieteren expanded the business by opening a second location at 106 Rue Neuve, Brussels, Rue Neuve/Nieuwstraat, where vehicle painting and garniture were incorporated into the existing trade of coachbuilding and wheelwrighting. In 1897, D'Ieteren became one of the first companies to produce bodywork for motorized vehicles, signaling a significant transition from traditional horse-drawn carriage manufacturing to automobile bodywork. This shift took place in a newly established workshop located on Chaussée de Charleroi, Chaussée de Charleroi/Charleroisesteenweg. The company continued t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cofinimmo
Cofinimmo is the foremost listed Belgian real estate company specialising in rental property. The company owns a property portfolio spread across nine European countries (Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Finland, Ireland, Italy and the United Kingdom) with a value of approximately 6.2 billion EUR by 2023. It involves healthcare properties (75% of the real estate portfolio), offices (18%), and property of distribution networks (7%). The healthcare real estate portfolio has a value of approximately 4.6 billion EUR. As an independent company applying the highest standards of corporate governance and sustainability, Cofinimmo offers tenant services and manages its portfolio through a team of approximately 155 employees in Brussels, Paris, Breda, Frankfurt and Madrid. Cofinimmo is listed on Euronext Brussels and is part of the BEL20 index. The company benefits from the REIT A real estate investment trust (REIT, pronounced "reet") is a company that owns, and in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
