{"id":4208,"date":"2024-08-05T13:14:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T11:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lama-fortune.com\/?p=4208"},"modified":"2025-02-13T13:16:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T12:16:17","slug":"demot-and-houben-family-democo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.lama-fortune.com\/en\/famille-demot-et-houben-democo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Demot and Houben Families: How they transformed Democo into a 65 million euro empire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Visit Demot and Houben families<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Visit Demot and Houben families<\/strong> have played a crucial role in the foundation and success of Democo<\/strong>a major construction group<\/strong> based in Hasselt<\/strong>in the province of Limburg<\/strong>. In 1977, Cyriel Demot<\/strong> launched this collaborative construction<\/a> with Frans Houben<\/strong> and Mario Longhi<\/strong>. Today, the company is managed by Philip Demot<\/strong> and includes companies such as Van den Briele, Deholi, Deconstruct, Democo Poland and DMI Vastgoed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Democo Poland<\/strong> is an independent player in the group, having started its activities with the construction of a new battery plant for Matsushita Battery<\/strong> in 1994. Today, Democo boasts sales of between 250 and 300 million euros, making it one of Belgium's wealthiest families, with assets of 65,590,000 euros<\/strong>. The character family<\/strong> and regional presence play a key role in their success.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Demot and Houben families were the founding pillars of Democo, a major construction group based in Hasselt. Since its creation in 1977 by Cyriel Demot, Frans Houben, and Mario Longhi, the company has prospered under the leadership of Philip Demot, reaching sales of 250 to 300 million euros. Discover how these families built a fortune of 65 million euros by transforming Democo into a diversified and influential company in the construction industry.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5357,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,64,33],"tags":[66,5,51,27],"class_list":["post-4208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-construction","category-automobile","category-famille","tag-automobile","tag-belgique","tag-construction","tag-flandre"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":50,"label":"Construction"},{"value":64,"label":"Automobile"},{"value":33,"label":"Famille"}],"post_tag":[{"value":66,"label":"Automobile"},{"value":5,"label":"Belgique"},{"value":51,"label":"Construction"},{"value":27,"label":"Flandre"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/media.lama-fortune.com\/2024\/08\/democo-1024x683.jpg",1024,683,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Martin Moth\u00e9","author_link":"https:\/\/old.lama-fortune.com\/en\/author\/mmothe\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":50,"name":"Construction","slug":"construction","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":50,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":95,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":50,"category_count":95,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Construction","category_nicename":"construction","category_parent":0},{"term_id":64,"name":"Automobile","slug":"automobile","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":64,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":67,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":64,"category_count":67,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Automobile","category_nicename":"automobile","category_parent":0},{"term_id":33,"name":"Famille","slug":"famille","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":33,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":367,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":33,"category_count":367,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Famille","category_nicename":"famille","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":66,"name":"Automobile","slug":"automobile","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":66,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":61,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":5,"name":"Belgique","slug":"belgique","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":5,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":287,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":51,"name":"Construction","slug":"construction","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":51,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":83,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":27,"name":"Flandre","slug":"flandre","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":27,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":200,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.lama-fortune.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.lama-fortune.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.lama-fortune.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.lama-fortune.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.lama-fortune.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/old.lama-fortune.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.lama-fortune.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.lama-fortune.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.lama-fortune.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.lama-fortune.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}