We are saddened to learn of the death of Philippe Stulemeijer, grandson of Jacques-Marie, who co-founded the Belgian Concrete Company (SBB) in 1909 together with his two brothers, Charles-Marie and Frans.
On behalf of all its employees and management team, the BESIX Group offers its sincere condolences to all the members of Philippe Stulemeijer's family, in particular his two daughters Aurélie and Anne-Claude, as well as to their relatives and former colleagues.
Philippe Stulemeijer was a member of the SBB Board of Directors between 1985 and 2002, and Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors between 2002 and 2004. He was committed to supporting the development of the company throughout his terms of office. He began his career in 1968 and spent his early years in Zaire. Appointed successively Managing Director (1984) and Managing Director (1989), Philippe Stulemeijer moved to the forefront when his father Charles-Marie died, and became a prominent shareholder representative.
“Philippe Stulemeijer was a brilliant thinker, with an strong character and a deep cultural background. He was, and remained, the man for financial matters in the group. I will always remember him as a godfather: he encouraged me in the 1980s to take on more responsibilities. He remained closely involved with SBB until the management buy-out in 2004”, recalls Johan Beerlandt, Executive Chairman of BESIX Group.
As a reminder, 13 senior managers of SBB went through a leveraged management buy-out in 2004. On 20 April 2004, Philippe Stulemeijer and other representatives of the former reference shareholders resigned as Board Directors of SBB. The group was delisted from the Brussels stock exchange and renamed BESIX Group. Johan Beerlandt, who had been with the company since 1974, became the new CEO.
“Many of us will remember Philippe's remarkable speech at the company's centenary celebrations in 2009, where he expressed his heartfelt wishes for the future of our Group”, concludes Johan Beerlandt.