- Asphales
The Asphales
holding , now Fortales, was founded byPiet Van Waeyenberge in1988 .History
In the wake of the attempted take-over of the
Société Générale de Belgique byCarlo De Benedetti , Piet Van Waeyenberge wanted to create an investment instrument to provide forcapital for Belgian companies in order to prevent hostile foreigntakeover s. Several Belgian businesspeople participated in the holding, such asPaul 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 initative. The holding bought shares of "AG Group", a large Belgian insurer, one of the predecessors of what would become Fortis.ee also
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