Bekaert

Bekaert is a world market and technology leader in steel wire transformation and coating technologies. To be the preferred supplier of steel wire products and solutions, they consistently deliver superior value to their customers worldwide. Bekaert (Euronext Brussels: BEKB) was established in 1880 and is a global company with approximately 30 000 employees worldwide.[1]

Bekaert serves customers across a multitude of sectors with a unique portfolio of drawn steel wire products, coated to optimally suit the application needs. Bekaert steel wire is used in cars and trucks, in elevators and mines, in tunnels and bridges, at home and in the office, in machines and offshore. Whatever drives, ascends, hoists, filters, reinforces, fences or fastens, there is a good chance Bekaert is inside.[2]

N.V. Bekaert S.A.
Naamloze vennootschap / Société anonyme
Traded as Euronext: BEKB
Industry Manufacturing, chemicals
Founded Zwevegem, Belgium (1880)
Headquarters Kortrijk, Belgium
Key people
Products Advanced materials, coatings, engineered wire products
Revenue €4 billion (2014)[3]
Number of employees
 30,000 (end 2014)[3]
Website www.bekaert.com

Organisation

Board

[4] The Board of Directors is the company’s supreme decision-making body in all matters other than those in respect of which decision-making powers are reserved to the General Meeting of Shareholders by law or the articles of association. The Board of Directors delegates its management and operational authority to the Bekaert Group Executive. The main task of the Board of Directors, under the leadership of the Chairman, is to determine the company’s general policy and supervise its activities.

The Board of Directors has 14 members :

  1. Bert De Graeve (Chairman of the Board of Directors)
  2. Matthew Taylor (Chief Executive Officer)
  3. Dr Alan Begg
  4. Baron Bekaert
  5. Roger Dalle
  6. Count Charles de Liedekerke
  7. François de Visscher
  8. Sir Anthony Galsworthy KCMG
  9. Hubert Jacobs van Merlen
  10. Maxime Jadot
  11. Lady Barbara Thomas Judge CBE
  12. Bernard van de Walle de Ghelcke
  13. Baudouin Velge
  14. Manfred Wennemer

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Bekaert profile". Bekaert.
  2. ↑ "Industry offerings". Bekaert.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Annual results 2014". Bekaert.
  4. ↑ "Board". Bekaert.

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