Marijke Smits

Pizza Belgium NV offers fast food products through a chain of pizza restaurants. The firm operates a chain of hundreds of pizza hut outlets. The firm also provides take away and home delivery services. The company owns food restaurants such as Kentucky Fried Chicken and Taco Bell. Pizza Belgium was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Wilrijk, Belgium.

Le Monde du Pain NV is a private company based in Berchem, Belgium. The Belgian company was founded in 2006, and Stefan Meulemans has been the CEO since its inception.

Sunco NV produces and markets soft drinks. The firm manufactures products on a contract basis for supermarket private labels and international brands. The company sells soft drinks in plastic and glass bottles in Belgium, France, and Germany. Sunco was founded in 1923 and is headquartered in Ninove, Belgium.

Eagle Capital Partners (ECP) is a private equity investment firm headquartered in Moscow with offices in Ekaterinburg, and incorporated on the Island of Guernsey. The firm manages private equity funds primarily for mid-sized Russian firms. Formerly known as Eagle Venture Partners, set up in 2008 by Belgian-based private equity firms GIMV (XB: GIMB) and KBC Private Equity. For GIMV this partnership is a follow-up to the Eagle Russia Fund they launched in 2006. ECP can trace their initial history to 2000 when they took over the management of a number of established funds in Russia and Kazakhstan. At the time, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development was the main sponsor of the funds.

Entrematic Belgium NV manufactures roll-up industrial doors for the food, automotive, healthcare, pharmaceutical and chemistry, airport, industrial, distribution, retail, logistics, clean room, cold stores, and refrigerators sectors. The company was founded by Benoît Coenraets in 1987 and is headquartered in Moorsel, Belgium.

Atempo, Inc. develops software for data protection, recovery management, and archiving needs. It offers backup and recovery, archiving, storage, and security solutions. The firm’s products include Atempo Time Navigator, a backup and recovery solution that offers protection and archival solution for heterogeneous environments; Atempo Live Backup, a data protection solution for desktops and laptops; and Atempo Digital Archive that offers long-term archiving of files and other digital assets. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Think2Act Partners BVBA (Think2Act Partners) is a private equity firm founded by Jo Breesch, Filip Lesaffer and Koen Verhelst in 2000. The firm headquartered in Zwijndrecht, Belgium.

KBC Securities NV is a broker/dealer firm headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of KBC Bank NV, itself a subsidiary of KBC Groupe SA (EBR: KBC). KBC Securities provides liquidity and order execution services to institutional clients internationally, from investment banks to mutual funds and private investors.

2Valorise Amel SA is a private company that focuses on reducing the impact of waste on society through sustainable and continuous processing, improvement, and growth. The company is based in Amel, Belgium. The Belgian company aims to transform waste into useful applications and raw materials. Filip Lesaffer has been the CEO of the company since 2005.