Société Générale de Belgique

The Société générale de Belgique was founded in 1822, to 2003 existing large conglomerate in Belgium.

The company was founded in 1822 by the Dutch King William I to promote the economic development of the country. After the revolution of 1830 and the secession from the Netherlands, it served until 1850 as the central bank of the newly independent Belgium. As a result, it has invested heavily in the streets railway and canal construction.

The economic exploitation of the mineral resources of the Belgian Congo was a subsidiary of Société Générale, the Union Minière de Haut Katanga, who was largely responsible for the Congo atrocities transmitted.

In the world economic crisis in 1930 it came to the separation of the banking branch of the society.

Olivetti acquired 18% of the share capital of Société Générale de Belgique, trying in vain to reinforce it to the blocking minority. 2003, Société Générale of its sole proprietor of Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux was merged with the company Tractebel.

• Former company (Belgium )
• Established in 1822