Compagnie Nationale à Portefeuille

Compagnie Nationale à Portefeuille SA ("CNP"), is a Belgian non-listed holding company. Together with Groupe Bruxelles Lambert, CNP is one of the main pillars of Groupe Frère-Bourgeois (founded by Baron Albert Frère) and can rely on a stable shareholders’ base: it is exclusively controlled[1] by the Frère family.

Compagnie Nationale à Portefeuille SA
TypeNon-listed holding company
HeadquartersLoverval, Belgium
Key people
Xavier Le Clef
(Managing Director)
Total assetsApproximately €1.5 billion
(2014 net assets value)
Websitewww.cnp.be

Investments

CNP directly holds stakes in a number of industrial companies, which at the end of 2014 included:[2]

  • Total (0.9%), the fifth-largest publicly traded integrated international oil and gas company in the world, active both on the upstream (exploration/production) and downstream (refining, distribution) segments
  • M6 (7.3%), a multimedia group that revolves around M6, France’s second commercial TV channel, and also includes a family of highly complementary digital channels and diversification activities developed around a powerful brand
  • Transcor Astra Group (88%)[3] that operates in the petroleum products, gas, coal and coke trading and distribution sectors, through owned or rented assets (pipelines, storage facilities, oil tankers, refineries…)
  • Affichage Holding (25.3%), Switzerland's leading Out of Home advertising company and specialist in the provision of digital and analog Out of Home solutions
  • Cheval Blanc Finance, that holds 50% of the Société Civile du Cheval Blanc, which owns the Saint Emilion Premier Grand Cru Classé A estate (37 hectares), la Tour du Pin(8 hectares) and Quinault l’Enclos (18 hectares) vineyards
  • Caffitaly (49%),Caffitaly
  • International Duty Free (100%), the operator of retail shops at the main Belgian airports (Brussels, Charleroi) and at Brussels international train station

Ownership and control

In March 2011 CNP was delisted, after a successful takeover bid from Groupe Frère-Bourgeois (70% economic ownership) and BNP Paribas (30%) for the 27.8% of CNP they did not already own.[4] The CNP share was removed from the BEL 20 index on 2 May 2011.[5]

Groupe Frère-Bourgeois acquired BNP Paribas’s stake in CNP at the end of 2013. As a result, CNP is now exclusively controlled by Groupe Frère-Bourgeois, alongside management and personnel.

References
  1. "According to article 5 of Belgian Company law". Missing or empty |url= (help)
  2. "Company website". CNP. 31 December 2014. Retrieved 31 December 2014.
  3. "100% control". Missing or empty |url= (help)
  4. Martens, John (4 March 2011). "Frere Makes Offer for Nationale as Leverage Eclipses Strategy". Bloomberg. Retrieved 8 May 2011.
  5. "Index Announcement" (PDF). NYSE Euronext. 29 April 2011. Retrieved 8 May 2011.
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