Bekaert
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| legal form | NV / SA |
| ISIN | BE0974258874 |
| founding | 1880 |
| Seat |
Zwevegem , Belgium
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| Number of employees | 30,000 (2016) |
| sales | EUR 4.4 billion |
| Website | Bekaert |
NV Bekaert SA , is a listed Belgian steel group based in Zwevegem . Bekaert employs over 30,000 people worldwide and achieved a turnover of 4.4 billion euros in 2016. The group is the world's largest manufacturer of wire and wire products.
history
The company was founded in 1880 by Leo Leander Bekaert in the West Flemish municipality of Zwevegem . Under the leadership of Léon-Antoine Bekaert, who took over from Leo Leander Bekaert, the company grew rapidly and expanded abroad. Before the Second World War , Bekaert became President of the National General Christian Employers' Association (LACW), where he defended the interests of Catholic patronage. After the war he became president of the FBE. He also had contacts with the royal house and the national bank. However, his political activities did not go beyond the office of mayor of Zwevegem. After his death in 1961, his son-in-law Marc Verhaeghe was appointed President of the Bekaert Group. In 2000, Baron Paul Buysse was elected to the Board of Directors for the first time as a non-family member . He appointed Julien De Wilde as CEO and Bert De Graeve as Chief Finance & Administration Officer.
In 2015 Bekaert took over the Pirelli steel wire activities and has been supplying Pirelli with the wire that is important for tires ever since . With the acquisition , Bekaert received production facilities in Italy , Figline Valdarno , Slatina in Romania and Izmit ( Turkey ). Outside Europe, the production facilities are in Brazil and the People's Republic of China . This was the largest acquisition in Bekaert's history and added around 300 million euros to group sales per year.
Business activity
Bekaert is the global market and technology leader in forming and coating technologies for steel wire. As a supplier of wires for the automotive, construction, energy technology, agriculture, medical technology and packaging industries, Bekaert develops and manufactures at locations in over 120 countries. In addition to steel cord to increase the strength of tires, saw wire and steel fibers for reinforcing concrete are among the main applications.
Shareholder structure
Bekaert is listed in the BEL20 in Brussels .
- Main shareholder: 34.41%
- Treasury shares: 6.04%
- Institutional stocks: 33.25%
- Private customers: 18.02%
- Anonymous: 7.88%
- (according to company website)
Bekaert UTC
The Bekaert University Technology Center (UTC) is a research cluster between Bekaert and the Chair of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at University College Dublin . The focus of research is on the rolling and drawing of wire.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b finanzen.net . Retrieved October 10, 2017.
- ↑ Published in Digital Journal . Retrieved October 9, 2017.
- ↑ Published in tirebusiness . Retrieved October 9, 2017.
- ↑ Published in Structurae. Retrieved October 9, 2017.
- ↑ Published in reportagestuff . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 9, 2017.
- ↑ Shareholder Structure . Retrieved October 8, 2017.
- ↑ Published in DCU . Retrieved October 9, 2017.
- ^ UCD website . Retrieved October 8, 2017.
