On Friday 18 June 3pm, AWEX and partners Liege Airport & EU China Logistics will present a very interesting free webinar on the EU VAT Reform, going into effect on 1 July 2021. Here is the rundown of the program of the webinar: 3.00 pm: Welcome words 3.05 pm: Introduction speech – Werner RENS, Advisor-General…
Fascinating interview piece with BLCC member & Director of the Board Mr. Steven Verhasselt, VP Commercial at Liège Airport! Liège gives cargo a home, as shown by the unprecedented tonnage growth reported by the Walloon airport since many quarters. LGG has introduced a fast lane cargo connector to further improve ground services and speed up…
Luxembourg for Finance has released the latest edition of their magazine LEO. This edition discusses topics on sustainable investment funds, Luxembourg LP structure, private equity, and many other insightful issues. Please have a read by clicking here.
On 23 January 2021, The Brussels Times posted that Belgium is one Trappist brewery poorer. Trappist brewers are a special subset of the Benedictine Order. To be classified as a Trappist beer, the brewery must comply with the strict set of rules of the International Trappist Association (ITA). One of the requirements the ITA has…
Interesting architectural news from our Belgian connection at LEAD! YEZO is a small retreat, nestled in the northern mountain range of Hokkaido, Japan, that takes advantage of the dramatic landscape and an experimental design approach to create a private sanctuary surrounded by nature. Its lean tectonic system combined with only a most essential spatial programme…
Some news from Belgium about the non-essential travel ban you may have read or heard about; our BLCC colleague Baukje Huisman has created an overview of several articles posted by The Brussels Times on this topic. We hope you find it useful! In order to beat the coronavirus pandemic, Geert Molenberghs, a biostatistician at the…
Our BLCC member Steven Verhasselt made us aware of an interesting online management course to follow early December 2020 at the HEC Liege Management School. The topic of this course: Customs Compliance in eCommerce. Course description: Alongside the lifecycle of a low value consignment throughout the supply chain, our advanced program on eCommerce explains the…
In a previous post we already reported on the good news coming out of our corporate member Asia-Euro Consultancy (AEC). And we have more today: AEC recently successfully advised the company Novadip with their investment raising in Asia & introduction on the Chinese Market. Novadip is a spin-off company of the UCLouvain. Just the other…
Our corporate member Asia-Euro Consultancy lead by our chairman Patrice Thys send us some good news this week. Asia-Euro Consultancy has been acting as M&A advisor to Wilink, the number one private insurance broker in Belgium. A strategic partnership was formed with LFPI (Paris), a PE firm attached to Banque Lazard. In parallel to that…
From 1 August 2020 onward the Belgian Public Health Department requires anyone traveling to Belgium & staying there longer than 48 hours, to fill in the Public Health Passenger Locator Form. More information about this process and ways to fill in the form can be found here (click). Anyone arriving to Belgium by airplane or…
