Karel Verlinde

Van de Velde is an originally Belgian family business and expanded to a leading player in the premium and fashionable women’s lingerie sector. All the company’s attention is focused on building strong complementary brands (PrimaDonna, Marie Jo, Andres Sarda). This complementarity ensures that we are able to offer women the very best in terms of fit and fashion in the premium lingerie segment. In order to achieve this we’ve created the Lingerie Styling concept (fit, style and fashion). We have to be a sufficiently important partner for the specialist retailer on every market we trade on. We work closely with 3,500 specialty lingerie stores worldwide, as well as running our own retail chain (Rigby & Peller and Lincherie) founded on the principles of Lingerie Styling. Our geographical centre of gravity is Europe and North America. Van de Velde is an ethical and social enterprise. Its plant in Belgium has been rewarded with the SA8000 label. Website http://www.vandevelde.eu

Founded in 1997, IVC Group is Europe’s leading manufacturer of Luxury Vinyl Tile and residential vinyl in rolls. With 1,500 employees in 6 production units in Belgium, Luxembourg and the United States, IVC Group develops and produces over 100 million m2 of vinyl floors per year. The product portfolio consists of 4 brands: Leoline® (residential vinyl floors in rolls), Itec® (project vinyl floors in rolls), Moduleo® (high-quality modular vinyl floors for project and residential use) and Xtrafloor® (accessories for vinyl and LVT floors). Since 2015 IVC Group forms part of the American listed Mohawk Industries Inc., the world´s market leader in flooring.

Brady Corporation is an international manufacturer and marketer of complete solutions that identify and protect premises, products and people. Its products help customers increase safety, security, productivity and performance and include high-performance labels and signs, safety devices, printing systems and software, and precision die-cut materials. Founded in 1914, the company has millions of customers in electronics, telecommunications, manufacturing, electrical, construction, education, medical and a variety of other industries. Brady is headquartered in Milwaukee and employs more than 6,500 people at operations in the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Brady’s fiscal 2011 sales were approximately $1.34 billion. Brady stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol BRC.

IGI Corp., a privately held company based in New Jersey, USA, is the parent company of RTape Corp. (a manufacturer of pressure sensitive adhesive products for the visual communication industry) and CET Films Corp. (a cast film extruder). The company went through a successful sale process and was acquired by Nekoosa Coated Products in April 2013. Nekoosa is a portfolio company of Wingate Partners of Dallas, Texas.

Industrial Consultants bvba (IC) is a sales representative organization for manufacturers of visual communication materials, based in Aalter, Belgium. Currently, IC represents RTape Corp., Stahls Europe and iSee2 in EMEA.