The Federation of Enterprises in Belgium is the only Belgian

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

 non-profit organization

Non-profit organization

Nonprofit organization is neither a legal nor technical definition but generally refers to an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals, rather than distributing them as profit or dividends...

 representing companies in all three regions of Belgium. Its members, the different Belgian sectorial employers' organization

Employers' organization

An employers' organization, employers' association or employers' federation is an association of employers. A trade union, which organizes employees is the opposite of an employers' organization...

s, represent companies in key industrial and service sectors. All in all, it represents more than 30,000 businessess, of which 25,000 are small or medium-sized enterprises. Since 28 April 2005, Jean-Claude Daoust, of Daoust Interim is the President and since June 2004, Rudi Thomaes

Rudi Thomaes

Rudi Thomaes is a Belgian businessman and CEO of the Federation of Belgian Enterprises and a member of VOKA.-Education:...

 is CEO of the Federation of Belgian Enterprises.

The VBO/FEB aims to help create jobs for the future and ensure that these jobs complement each other, especially in the service, industrial and construction sectors. In terms of jobs, the VBO/FEB represents approximately 1.5 million workers in the private sector.

History

It was founded in 1973 after a merger of the Federation of Belgian Industries and the Federation of Non Industrial Enterprises of Belgium. The VBO/FEB is the voice of business in Belgium. It aims to: work towards creating an optimum business environment, promote business interests at federal, European and international level (in 150 bodies) and to ensure consistency in the message entrepreneurs deliver and the actions they take.

Regional federations

• BECI
  Beći
  Beći is a village in the Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. According to the 1991 census, the village is located in the municipality of Rogatica.-References:...
  
   (Brussels Enterprises Commerce and Industry)
• VOKA
  Voka
  Voka is a small borough in Toila Parish, Ida-Viru County in northeastern Estonia....
  
   (Vlaams Economisch Verbond)
• Walloon Union of Companies (UWE)

See also

• Economy of Belgium
  Economy of Belgium
  The modern, private enterprise economy of Belgium has capitalised on its central geographic location, highly developed transport network, and diversified industrial and commercial base...
  
  
• Science and technology in Belgium
  Science and technology in Belgium
  Science and technology in Belgium is well developed with the presence of several universities and research institutes. As Belgium is a federal state, science is organized at several levels...
  
  
• Union of Industrial and Employers' Confederations of Europe
  Union of Industrial and Employers' Confederations of Europe
  Founded in 1958, BUSINESSEUROPE represents small, medium and large companies through its members, 41 leading national business organisations in 35 European countries working together to achieve growth and competitiveness in Europe...
  
  
• Agoria
  Agoria
  Agoria is Belgium's largest employers' organisation and trade association. The companies represented by Agoria are active in 13 branches of the technology industry: aerospace, automotive, construction products, contracting & maintenance, electrical engineering, industrial automation, ICT,...
  
  
• Fedustria
  Fedustria
  Fedustria is the Belgian non profit federation of the textile, wood and furniture industry. It was founded on 20 December 2006 in Ghent and is the successor of Febeltex and Febelhout...
  
  
• UNIZO
  UNIZO
  UNIZO is a Belgian organization of Self-Employed and Small and Medium Sized Enterprises ; it is mainly situated in the Flemish region of the Kingdom of Belgium. UNIZO wants to give SMEs a voice from the local up to the European level...
  
  
• VKW
  League of Christian Employers
  The League of Christian Employers is a Flemish Christian employers organization. Guido Beazar is the president of the organization.-Notable members:* Léon Bekaert , Bekaert...
  
  
• Prince Albert Fund
  Prince Albert Fund
  The Prince Albert Fund is a Belgian non-profit organization managed by the King Baudouin Foundation which provides a scholarship to young Belgian professionals to give them the opportunity to carry out abroad a project in international business development.-History:The Fund was created in 1984 by...
  
  
• Cercle de Lorraine
  Cercle de Lorraine
  The Cercle de Lorraine or Club van Lotharingen is a Belgian business club, located in Uccle, Belgium. The club was founded in Brussels in 1998, and it wants to bring together, distinguished and representative personalities from the Belgian financial community, French speaking as well as Dutch...
  
  
• Cercle Gaulois
  Cercle Gaulois
  The Cercle Gaulois or Cercle Royal Gaulois Artistique et Littéraire is a Belgian club. The club has the aim of constituting a friendly, intellectual, artistic and literary, meeting place, free of any political, cultural or philosophical tendency...
  
  
• De Warande (Club)
  De Warande (Club)
  De Warande is a Flemish business club, located in Brussels, Belgium. The club was founded in Brussels in 1988, by Flemish businesspeople and the Flemish government. The club wants to bring together distinguished and representative personalities from the Flemish business community...
  
  
• Mouvement des Entreprises de France
  Mouvement des Entreprises de France
  The Mouvement des Entreprises de France or MEDEF is the largest union of employers in France. It was formerly known as the Conseil National du Patronat Français or CNPF .It has more than 700,000 member firms, 90% are from SME, with fewer than 50 employees...
  
  

External links

• The official VBO/FEB site, the voice of business in Belgium