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    The Société générale de Belgique (Dutch: Generale Maatschappij van België, lit. 'General Company of Belgium'; often referred to in Belgium simply as "Société...
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    Banque de la Société Générale de Belgique (referred to inside Belgium simply as the Banque de la Société Générale), then from 1965 to 1985 the Société Générale...
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    1895, Société Générale had 14,000 shareholders. In 1898, Société Générale entered the Belgian market. Because the Société Générale de Belgique predated...
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    the Boxer Protocol. Alongside the Société Générale de Belgique, its original investors included the Société Générale Africaine (which would merge into...
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    the Société Générale de Belgique established in 1822. In 1999, BNP and Société Générale fought a complex battle on the stock market, with Société Générale...
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  • centuries, starting with the Société Générale de Belgique in 1822. In contemporary usage, it generally refers to Société Générale, a French banking group,...
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    Société Générale de Belgique (SGB) had a branch in Paris. This was later restructured as a banking subsidiary, called the Société Française et Belge de Banque...
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    was a Belgian based bank that acted as the affiliate of the Société Générale de Belgique in Antwerp. It started activity as a branch in 1823, became a...
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    in 1985 Westinghouse's share was acquired by Société Générale de Belgique (SGB) and Compagnie Générale d'Electricité (CGE). The company operated at a...
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    Belgium's second-largest bank for most of its existence, behind the Société Générale de Belgique and, from 1934 onwards, its spun-off banking subsidiary.: 20...
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  • company, with Cie du Bois Sauvage from Société Générale de Belgique in 1998). In 1985-1986 Société Générale de Belgique (SGB) pooled the activities of PRB...
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  • Alexandre Galopin (category Société Générale de Belgique)
    the Société Générale de Belgique, a major Belgian company, and chairman of the board of the motor and armaments company Fabrique Nationale d'Armes de Guerre...
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    in 1987. It acquired control of the Société Générale de Belgique in 1988, and changed name again to Compagnie de Suez in 1990. In 1997, it merged with...
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    his father's death, Stoclet became one of the directors of the Société Générale de Belgique, which for many years was one of the largest holding companies...
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  • partly offset the financial dominance in the country of the Société Générale de Belgique which was viewed as not providing savings services to the broader...
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    Union Minière du Haut-Katanga (category Société Générale de Belgique)
    the Société Générale controlled 70% of the Congolese economy. Exercising preponderant influence over the Comité spécial, the Société Générale effectively...
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    in the small city of Herstal, near Liège. The Fabrique Nationale d'Armes de Guerre (French for 'National Factory of Weapons of War') was established in...
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    and Baron Edmond Carton de Wiart, political secretary to the King of Belgium and director of La Société Générale de Belgique. While on leave, he travelled...
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    Étienne Davignon (category Société Générale de Belgique)
    Belgian bank Société Générale de Belgique, which is now part of the French supplier Engie and was not an arm of the French bank Société Générale, but a Belgian...
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    himself also an industrialist and a banker. He was head of the Société Générale de Belgique and the owner of several coal mines. He represented Ghent and...
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    Edgar Sengier (category Société Générale de Belgique)
    Province in the Belgian Congo. The UMHK was owned jointly by the Société Générale de Belgique, a Belgian investment company, and the government of the Belgian...
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    in 1956. In 1964, the Boël family took control together with Société Générale de Belgique. Chairman of the board: David Verey since 2014 (took over from...
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    One of Frère-Orban's aims was to mitigate the dominance of the Société Générale de Belgique in the Belgian financial system, a concern that also led to his...
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    exploitation of the Congo Free State, and eventually merged into the Société Générale de Belgique in 1928. Despite its name, the Banque d'Outremer acted mostly...
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    previously held by the Société Générale de Belgique as the latter spun off most of its banking operations as the Générale de Banque.: 44–45  In 1939...
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    into the Société Générale de Banque. The Banque Générale Belge (BGB) was established in Namur in 1901, succeeding the partnership (French: société en commandite...
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    University of Brussels. He was governor of the powerful trust, the Société Générale de Belgique and chairman of the Union minière du-Haut-Katanga amongst many...
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    Société Générale de Belgique, 1822–1972. Brussels: Société Générale. p. 147. Various (1972). La Société Générale de Belgique, 1822–1972. Brussels: Société Générale...
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    a 2014 ranking. The Banque Générale du Luxembourg (BGL) was founded on 29 September 1919 by Société Générale de Belgique together with Luxembourgish...
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    Société Générale de Belgique. During the First World War, Cooreman followed the Belgian government into exile at Le Havre. On the fall of Charles de Broqueville...
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