HISTORY

In 1946, the Government instructed a group of dynamic businessmen, headed by Mr. Kronacker, to buy essential products, especially in the United States where Belgium possessed important financial reserves.

Upon its arrival, the merchandise was distributed among Belgian wholesalers on the basis of the number of consumers registered in the shops which they supplied at the end of the war.

To coordinate this distribution, the Minister of Economic Affairs decided to unite the different buying groups into a single group called "Groupements Fédérés de Belgique".

Some months later, this manner of distribution came to an end and each wholesaler having an import licence, could buy in the countries of origin.

These numerous buying groups, many of them regional, did not have sufficient potential to realize these imports.

The most dynamic merged into one national buying group.

This was in 1947 and the GROUP BLOC was born.

In 2007, BLOC celebrated its 60 years existance.