- In 1946, the Belgian 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 way of distribution came to an end
and each
wholesaler having an import license, 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.
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