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BROWNING

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Public limited companyfounded 1999active for 27 yearsVoie de Liège 33, 4040 Herstal, Belgium10 active companies are registered at this addressKBO/BCE: BE 0465.800.136
Summary

BROWNING has been active since 1999 and the Belgian Official Gazette contains no insolvency or warning signals. The 2025 annual accounts show equity of €121.8m and a net result of €127.1m. Equity remains stable across the filed financial years (±0.2% per year). The computed 12-month bankruptcy probability is below 0.1% (very low).

Directors

Directors
1 director, last change in 2025
Lionel BLANCHARD
Director · since 03-06-2025
Current
Derived from published Gazette deeds. The KBO keeps the official list of office holders; we do not read it, so the two can differ. See the directors and other office holders in the KBO →
Not every act has been read: a resignation may still be missing
25 of this company's 30 Belgian Official Gazette deeds have not been read yet. Appointments and resignations recorded in them are not yet in the list of directors: someone who resigned there may still be listed as sitting. The acts are in the Timeline.

Mandate history

2 people since 2025, 1 in office
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  • Board
  • began earlier
Mandates per person, with start and end dates
Name Functions and periods
Lionel BLANCHARD
  • Director, from 03-06-2025 to date
Laurent BURTON
  • Director, until 04-09-2025
See the board, name and registered office on a given date →

Owners and capital

Owners

2 owners

Chain of control

  1. Wallonie Entreprendre 100%
  2. FN Browning Group 99.99%
  3. BROWNING

Highest known parent: Wallonie Entreprendre. The sources do not say who stands above it.

Owners 2

According to the 2025 annual accounts of BROWNING and those of the other companies, the acts in the Belgian Official Gazette and the LEI register. Annual accounts state the shareholders that notified the company under article 7:225 of the Code of Companies and Associations and the parent companies that consolidate it. The register of ultimate beneficial owners (UBO) is not public: who ultimately stands behind a natural person or a foreign parent is not stated here. A company that does not include these statements in its annual accounts, or does not have to, is not listed.

Capital and shareholders

Shareholders according to the deeds
After the capital increase act of 05-10-2026 ↗
  • FN Browning Group 14,586,741 shares · €361,590,713.41 · “apport de sa participation détenue à 99,8618% dans la société anonyme à directoire « SOFISPORT »”

The Belgian Official Gazette names shareholders only when an act mentions them; the share register itself is not published.

Capital over the years
  1. 05-10-2026 Capital increase of €361,590,713.41 · to €468,766,812.41 · 14,586,741 new shares · in kind