Organisation: GBL
LEI 549300KV0ZEHT2KVU152

GBL is one of the largest listed Belgian companies and is the second largest holding company in Europe, with adjusted net assets of EUR 15.6 billion and a market capitalisation of EUR 11.7 billion at the end of September 2014. GBL was founded in 1902, has been listed since 15 October 1956 and is part of the BEL 20 index. As a holding company focused on long-term value creation, GBL relies on a stable, family shareholder base. Its portfolio is composed of global industrial and services companies, leaders in their markets and in which GBL plays its role of professional shareholder. GBL’s dividend policy seeks to achieve a sound balance between providing an attractive yield to shareholders and achieving sustained growth in its net asset value. GBL’s belief, based on experience, is that increasing the yield and the value of its investments requires a close collaboration with the management in the context of the governance bodies of the companies in which it invests. The portfolio is intended to evolve over time to increase its sector and geographic diversification and to optimise the balance between growth and yield investments. GBL invests and divests depending on companies' evolution and market opportunities in order to meet its value creation objectives and maintain a solid financial structure.