Sofina

Belgian holding and investment company
Organization business Q1142890
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Sofina

Summary

Sofina is a business[1]. Sofina ranks in the top 4% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (840 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Sofina is in the country of Belgium[3].
  • Sofina is in the country of BE[4].
  • Sofina is in the country of FR[5].
  • Sofina's instance of is recorded as business[6].
  • Sofina's instance of is recorded as enterprise[7].
  • Sofina's instance of is recorded as public limited company[8].
  • Sofina's headquarters location is recorded as Brussels[9].
  • Sofina's chief executive officer is recorded as Harold Boël[10].
  • Sofina's child organization or unit is recorded as Compagnie Générale de Tramways de Buenos-Ayres[11].
  • Sofina's child organization or unit is recorded as Anglo-Argentine Tramways Company[12].
  • Sofina's child organization or unit is recorded as CHADE company[13].
  • Sofina's child organization or unit is recorded as Société d'Électricite de Rosario[14].
  • Sofina's stock exchange is recorded as Euronext Brussels[15].
  • Sofina's industry is recorded as financial services[16].
  • Sofina's industry is recorded as financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding[17].
  • 1898 marks the founding of Sofina[18].
  • 1956-12-28 marks the founding of Sofina[19].
  • 1982-09-30 marks the founding of Sofina[20].
  • 2003-09-30 marks the founding of Sofina[21].
  • Sofina's parent organization or unit is recorded as Trust Financiers de Transports et d'Entreprises Industrielles[22].
  • Sofina's official website is recorded as https://www.sofinagroup.com/[23].
  • Sofina's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'fr', 'text': "Société Financière de Transports et d'Enterprises Industrielles"}[24].
  • Sofina's legal form is recorded as Public limited company (Belgium)[25].
  • Sofina's legal form is recorded as R85P[26].
  • Sofina's legal form is recorded as 6CHY[27].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 969500WKIZTWLUFHV196[28]

  • Registered legal name: Sofina[29]

  • Legal jurisdiction: FR[30]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[31]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): V9QP[32]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[33]

  • LEI registration status: ISSUED[34]

  • Entity created: 2003-09-30[35]

  • LEI first registered: 2019-06-20[36]

  • LEI last updated: 2026-06-19[37]

  • LEI next renewal: 2027-07-30[38]

  • Managing LOU: 969500Q2MA9VBQ8BG884[39]

  • Registration authority: RA000189[40]

  • Authority entity ID: 450677091[41]

  • Conformity flag: CONFORMING[42]

Body

Founding

Recorded inception include 1898[18], 1956-12-28[19], 1982-09-30[20], and 2003-09-30[21].

Identity

Sofina's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'fr', 'text': "Société Financière de Transports et d'Enterprises Industrielles"}[24].

Leadership

Sofina's chief executive officer is recorded as Harold Boël[10].

Operations

Sofina's headquarters location is recorded as Brussels[9]. Sofina's parent organization or unit is recorded as Trust Financiers de Transports et d'Entreprises Industrielles[22]. Subsidiaries include Compagnie Générale de Tramways de Buenos-Ayres[11], a business[43], in Belgium[44], founded in 1907[45], headquartered in Brussels[46]; Anglo-Argentine Tramways Company[12], a private company limited by shares[47], in Argentina[48], founded in 1876[49], headquartered in London[50]; CHADE company[13], a business[51], in Argentina[52], founded in 1920[53], headquartered in Buenos Aires[54]; and Société d'Électricite de Rosario[14].

Industry

Industries include financial services[16] and financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding[17].

Ownership

Sofina's stock exchange is recorded as Euronext Brussels[15].

Why It Matters

Sofina ranks in the top 4% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (840 views/month).[2] Sofina has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[55] Sofina is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[56]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . bizzy.org. bizzy.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . 20th Century Press Archives. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . 20th Century Press Archives. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . 20th Century Press Archives. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . 20th Century Press Archives. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . live.euronext.com. live.euronext.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . 20th Century Press Archives. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . 20th Century Press Archives. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [28] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [29] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  3. [30] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  4. [31] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  5. [32] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [33] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [34] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [35] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [36] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [37] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [38] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [39] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [40] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [41] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  15. [42] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [43] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [44] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [45] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [46] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [47] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [48] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [49] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [50] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [51] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  10. [52] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  11. [53] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  12. [54] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [55] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [56] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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    Stock exchange → Euronext Brussels
    Parent organization or unit → Trust Financiers de Transports et d'Entreprises Industrielles
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