About Didier De Witte : Coming from a Flemish family of industrialists and born in October 1946, Didier de Witte had the spirit of entrepreneurship in the blood. This is not surprising if he was able to build a real estate empire that is currently under the daily direction of his children Thomas and Florence. Who is Didier De Witte ? After years of boarding school at Saint Peter's College in Uccle, a school in the Brussels-Capital Region, he has made in commercial engineering at Leuven. He graduated in 1970. Following a short career in banking, he became head of a brick, the Ceragres located in Melle which belongs to the Flemish family for 10 years. Inspired and fascinated by the innovative modern technology, Didier De Witte began to build wooden houses in skeleton. Until 1988, he built a hundred under the brand of BUILD. Around 1994, there was a liberalization of capital for individuals and Swedish companies. Indeed, at this time, the values of the Brussels real estate were half those of Sweden. So the Swedes pounced on it to raise prices and start the activity. As a seasoned manufacturer, Didier de Witte took advantage of the Swedish real estate invasion that is localized primarily to Brussels to build apartment buildings. Financial success does not have to wait, so a group on the stock exchange, Concrete Byggen has offered to buy his company. As the payment is made in shares and the group went bankrupt two years later, Didier de Witte has lost its entire selling price was estimated at the time to 1 billion Belgian francs of stock funds. Fortunately during these fruitful years, it has diversified its activities by investing in a small 4-star hotel, the Hotel Gravensteen in Ghent who had at that time of 17 rooms. He has learned a lot about the craft, which allowed him to continue to build places of excellence. Appeared in two others whose Ghent River Hotel and Hotel de Flandres. It was followed by the Bergamot residence with 180 beds Schaerbeeck and Wisteria in Tamines. As the years and after finding the aging of the population, Didier De Witte became interested in nursing homes, in several built and managed them himself. Disabled people also took the opportunity with 3 other houses located in specialized Taintignie, Laneffe and Mont-sur-Marchienne. All these buildings were made in parallel with other apartments through the multi-building company Creative Construction Renovation. |