Gert Noël
Gert Noël (born May 16, 1927 in Aachen ; † November 10, 1998 in Ibiza ) was a Belgian entrepreneur and founder of the NMC company .
biography
Gert Noël returned to his home town of Hauset in 1949 after completing an apprenticeship as a volunteer from Liège . His first entrepreneurial idea was to "make life easier for housewives with clever new products". For example, he bought polyurethane foam , cut it into small blocks and an artificial pumice stone was created, the forerunner of the modern household sponge . He initially supplied drugstores and founded with his wife Odette in 1950 originally as a commercial enterprise designed company N oil M Arquet & C ie (NMC) at Eupen marketplace. The company moved to its own premises on Hochstrasse in 1959. The company's headquarters have been in Eynatten since 1983 on the former site of the Jacques Chocolaterie . The family holding operates under the name Nomainvest . Due to the economic rise of the various companies, his family is one of the 200 richest families in Belgium.
In addition to the NMC company, after several years of research, Gert Noël began manufacturing extruded corks for closing wine bottles in the USA with one of his sons at the end of the 1990s. The company Nomacorc now has branches in the USA, China, Argentina and Thimister , near the NMC headquarters. In 2016 the company was realigned through the merger with several other manufacturers of synthetic bottle caps under the company name Vinventions.
Gert Noël Fund Foundation
In 2000, the Gert Noël Fund Foundation was established, administered by the King Baudouin Foundation, with the aim of promoting communication in hospitals, making health care more humane and improving care for patients and families. The Gert Noël Prize annually honors a Belgian initiative “which uses an original and innovative approach to better consider, inform and support patients and their environment in the hospital environment or in contact with the care network”.
Web links
- Heinz Genterblum: Gert-Noël-Straße recalls the vision of the NMC founder. In: grenzecho.net. December 7, 2007, accessed June 27, 2018 .
- Grenzecho from February 5, 2016: East Belgium in retrospect: Gert Noël makes the CSP tremble with "I like Gert". pdf p. 5/5 , accessed on June 27, 2017
Individual evidence
- ^ Grenz-Echo: Obituary from November 11, 1998
- ↑ Press release on NMC-Live, No. 66, 12/2007, p. 16
- ↑ History of Nomainvest
- ^ Faymonville and Noël among the 500 richest Belgians , status of the Noël family from June 2016
- ^ History of the Nomacorc company
- ↑ Merger of several companies to form Vinventions
- ↑ red / gz: Gert Noël Prize for medical care for the homeless. In: grenzecho.net. December 7, 2017, accessed June 27, 2018 .
- ↑ Data from the Gert Noël Fund on guteache.be
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Noël, Gert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aachen |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 10, 1998 |
| Place of death | Ibiza |