Compagnie du Bois Sauvage SA is a publicly traded Belgian investment holding company with a strategy centered on long-term, patient capital allocation. The company organizes its portfolio into three main pillars: Chocolate, Real Estate, and Industry & Services. Despite its structure as a diversified holding company, Compagnie du Bois Sauvage derives the vast majority of its consolidated revenue from its Chocolate segment. This pillar includes 100% ownership of premium chocolate makers Neuhaus and Jeff de Bruges, as well as Corné Port-Royal and Artista, which together generate over €300 million in annual sales and operate through an omnichannel network of hundreds of boutiques globally. The company also holds a stake in Ecuadorcolat to secure its cocoa supply chain.
Beyond chocolate, the company's Real Estate pillar includes direct property holdings and stakes in developers like Eaglestone, focusing on residential and office projects in Belgium, Luxembourg, and France. The Industry & Services pillar consists of minority stakes in strategic assets, notably the materials technology company Umicore and the German private bank Berenberg. While these financial and real estate investments contribute to the company's net asset value and dividend income, the sheer scale of the consolidated chocolate operations makes confectionery the company's principal business activity by revenue and earnings. The company is controlled by the Paquot family, which maintains a majority of voting rights and guides its conservative, long-term investment philosophy.
