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Cie Bois Sauvage is an international investment company, quoted on NYSE Euronext Brussels, with a greater part shareholder that is “family” and steady. The company's aim is to focus on a limited number of holdings, mainly manufacturing, whether listed or not. The company wants to be close to the businesses in which it can invest and in particular to take part both in their selection of leaders and the characterization of their strategic orientations Cie Bois Sauvage offers hold up to the equipped executive and support in terms of financial management which is long-term shareholder viewpoint comprises of a pledge of stability. Mindful of the interests of its own shareholders, it requires a regular income from its investments in order to allow the distribution of, if possible, a continuously growing dividend.

The company's current objective is to stay away from dependence on credit and to preserve the essential resources for the growth of the Group’s companies. The name “Bois Sauvage” was the place of company’s registered office which was founded in Brussels & that the place referred to as “Bois Sauvage”, a deformation of the Dutch patronymic “Wilde Wouter”, was started a long time ago between the Cathedral of Saints Michel and Gudule and the first surrounding wall of the City of Brussels.

The treatment of the Bois Sauvage location bring into the company with the Quartier des Arts Award in 1992. Ten years later, in 2002, the company yet again was acknowledged with this prominent award for the restoration of the Treurenberg site. Cie Bois Sauvage is the consequence of the amalgamation of nineteen companies with very various origins and operations, such as Fours Lecocq, the Nagelmackers Financial Company, the Hensies-Pommeroeul Collieries, Entrema or Somikin (a mining company from Kindu). Some company were too small to play a crucial economic role, others were anxious about irrevocably dated actions, at the same time others were in liquidation and were meant to disappear. Their joining together, which simply established a in reality circumstances, which was in perfect concurrence with the Company’s approach of steadiness and its mission to act as an economic and financial driving force.

The year 2011 Company portfolio steadily altering and adapting itself to innovative strategy set up by the Board, the net arrears were reduced to 14.7% of the equity. The real estate unit, is no longer a growth axis, but surely consists of 19.7% of the total. The long-standing investment division, need still auxiliary drop, accounted at 31 December 2011 for 66.7%, while the cash and cash corresponding to 13.6% proposed to make certain that the Company honors its several commitments. The division between these diverse pillars will carry on to evolve in 2013 in order to progressively focus the strategic portfolio around a limited number of holdings.

This investment splitting up reveals the Company’s most important task of focusing on a limited number of primarily industrial holdings, listed or not, and to add to the alternatives of the leaders and the clarity of the strategic orientations. Company's main investment criteria include a consideration of the business in which the Company is involved with assurance and partnership with management in place along with quantified analysis. In the year 2011, the company sold entire of its holdings in Satair and Biofirst, they also reduced their position in Ter Beke.