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Since the 1950s the newspaper market has been in decline in Belgium. [1] The number of national daily newspapers in the country was 50 in 1950, [1] whereas it was 30 in 1965. [2] The number became 33 in 1980. [1] There were 32 newspapers in the country in 1995. [3] It was 23 in 2000. [1] Below is a partial list of newspapers published in Belgium:
De Morgen originates from a merger in 1978 [3] [4] of two socialist newspapers Vooruit (newspaper) [5] (meaning "Onwards" in English) and Volksgazet (meaning "People's Newspaper" in English). The Vooruit was founded in Ghent by Edward Anseele and appeared the first time on 31 August 1884, just before the foundation of the Belgian Labour Party ...
The company had already bought Flemish newspaper publisher De Nieuwe Morgen in 1989, giving it ownership over a second newspaper, De Morgen. Also in 1987, De Persgroep was one of nine publishers involved in the foundation of the Vlaamse Televisie Maatschappij (VTM), the first and main commercial TV broadcaster in Flanders.
Keytrade Bank: Crédit Agricole (100%) (2007) VMS-Keytrade (1998–2002), bought RealBank (2002) Brussels: KEYT BE BB MeDirect Bank Belgium [19] MeDirect Bank Malta: Brussels: MBWM BE BB Rabobank.be Rabobank Group Belgium [20] Rabobank International Corporate Bank, De Lage Landen Leasing, Interpolis (insurance), Athlon Car Lease (car leasing ...
The National Bank was created by Minister Walthère Frère-Orban in 1850 with a unique hybrid status: in the form of a limited company, but with the main objective to carry out missions of general interest entrusted to it by legislation of 5 May 1850, including replacing the Société Générale de Belgique (SGB) as fiscal agent of the Belgian government.
Postbank N.V. was a large Dutch bank, which went on to become part of ING Group. It had 7.5 million private account holders and was one of the largest providers of financial services in the country. It had 7.5 million private account holders and was one of the largest providers of financial services in the country.
The following day, Fortis was partially nationalised on 28 September 2008, with Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg investing a total of €11.2 billion (US$16.3 billion) in the bank. Belgium will purchase 49% of Fortis's Belgian banking division, with the Netherlands doing the same for the Dutch banking division.
Bank Brussels Lambert (BBL, French: Banque Bruxelles Lambert) was a prominent Belgian bank that was created in 1975 through the merger of Banque de Bruxelles and Banque Lambert, and was eventually acquired in 1998 by ING Group; however the name survived as part of Groupe Bruxelles Lambert, which controlled the bank prior to its acquisition.