Christian Dumolin of Sint-Denijs

Zwevegem

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 is a Belgian

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 businessman, President and CEO of Koramic Investment Group, President and CEO of Koramic-Koceram and Vice-Chairman of Wienerberger

Wienerberger

Wienerberger AG is the world’s largest producer of bricks, and the second-largest European manufacturer of clay roof tiles. It is based in Vienna, Austria...

 Supervisory Board.

After he graduated in economics

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, he started his career in the insurance

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 business. He took over the management of Koramic Building Products in 1980 and subsequently was appointed Chairman and Managing Director of the company. The Koramic group grew out of brick

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 production and is active in construction material. Koramic is one of Europe's leading companies in the sector of tiles as well as one of the main divisions of the Austria

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n Wienerberger

Wienerberger

Wienerberger AG is the world’s largest producer of bricks, and the second-largest European manufacturer of clay roof tiles. It is based in Vienna, Austria...

 group. In addition Christian Dumolin was a regent of the National Bank of Belgium

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 and also the Belgian businessman with the highest number of governing board mandates in: 129 mandates of which 7 paid.

Sources

• Koramic sells roof tiles division, Focus on Flanders, 11 January -17 January 2003, Number 2, p. 6
• De rijkste families in West-Vlaanderen (Belgium)
• Dumolin vormt Koramic om tot investeringsmaatschappij, De Tijd
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