deSter Holding B.V.

Shareholders of deSter Holding B.V.

No shareholder of deSter Holding B.V. is disclosed in the data held for this company, and none could be obtained from an official source. The shareholder field on this record contains no rows at all: in place of a list it stores the data provider’s own message that shareholder information for companies in the Netherlands is filed with the Chamber of Commerce (KVK) and the UBO Register. That is an absence of data, not a finding that the company has no shareholders. A Dutch B.V. always has at least one shareholder.

Dutch disclosure works as follows. The Handelsregister records a sole shareholder (enig aandeelhouder) of a B.V. where one exists, but that detail is released only in a paid extract. Where there is more than one shareholder, the register does not publish the shareholder list at all: shares in a B.V. are transferred by Dutch notarial deed and recorded in the company’s own shareholders’ register, which is not a public document. KvK’s public search returns a JavaScript application shell with no machine-readable record, so no filed shareholder document could be retrieved for KvK 33201067 as at 28 September 2026. Who owns deSter Holding B.V. is therefore not answerable from public Dutch sources at this date, and no percentage should be inferred for any party.

GLEIF does not fill the gap. Its record for LEI 5299009UGRS95R43R894 carries no direct-parent and no ultimate-parent relationship, and the LEI registration has lapsed, with its last update on 15 July 2021, so GLEIF corroborates no holder of this company’s shares.

Ultimate beneficial ownership

No ultimate beneficial owner can be reliably identified, and none is stated here.

The Dutch UBO register has been closed to the public since 22 November 2022, the date of the Court of Justice of the European Union’s judgment in joined cases C-37/20 and C-601/20, which invalidated general public access to beneficial ownership information. The Netherlands suspended the provision of UBO extracts that day, and public access has not been restored. A beneficial owner is therefore very likely to be registered for deSter Holding B.V.; it simply cannot be read by the public. Treat this as restricted information, not as an absence of a UBO.

A corporate chain is documented above gategroup Holding AG in a UK court filing, and is set out in the group structure block on this page. It cannot be used to calculate an effective percentage here, because the step that would connect deSter Holding B.V. to that chain is not evidenced by any filing obtained, and calculating through an incomplete chain would produce a figure with no support.

Data availability

Restricted. The Netherlands does not publish a share register for a B.V. with more than one shareholder, publishes a sole shareholder only in a paid extract, and has kept its UBO register closed to the public since 22 November 2022. Nothing in this block should be read as evidence that deSter Holding B.V. has no shareholders or no beneficial owner.

Sources

• Zavia.ai stored provider record for shareholders, sourced from Netherlands Chamber of Commerce (KvK). URL as text: https://www.kvk.nl — record last synchronised 25 September 2026, read 28 September 2026.
• Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), LEI record 5299009UGRS95R43R894, including its direct-parent and ultimate-parent relationship endpoints. URL as text: https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/5299009UGRS95R43R894 — record last updated 15 July 2021, retrieved 28 September 2026.
• Court of Justice of the European Union, judgment of 22 November 2022 in joined cases C-37/20 and C-601/20 (WM and Sovim SA v Luxembourg Business Registers), the ruling on which Dutch public UBO access was suspended. URL as text: https://curia.europa.eu/juris/liste.jsf?num=C-37/20 — judgment dated 22 November 2022, retrieved 28 September 2026.

Directors and officers of deSter Holding B.V.

The officer data held for deSter Holding B.V. amounts to a single record, and the record’s own counter reports a total of one. It names J. Hensel, job title Director, marked ACTIVE, with an address country of NL. It carries no appointment date, no resignation or termination date, no year or month of birth and no address detail. No former or resigned officer is disclosed.

Nothing in that row could be corroborated against an official Dutch source. The Handelsregister does record a B.V.’s bestuurders and the way in which each may represent the company, but it releases those details only in a paid extract; KvK’s public search returns a JavaScript application shell with no machine-readable record. As at 28 September 2026 it was therefore not possible to confirm that J. Hensel is currently in office, to establish an appointment date, or to establish the precise Dutch role — bestuurder, algemeen directeur or otherwise — behind the generic "Director" label. Treat the stored row as a sample of unknown age rather than as a current board.

One confusion is worth heading off. The executives named on dester.com are attributed by the site’s own imprint to deSter BV, the Belgian company with enterprise number BE 0413.763.693 — Timo Vättö as chairman of the board of directors and Christoph Schmitz as chief executive officer. The Belgian Crossroads Bank for Enterprises separately lists three directors for that Belgian company: Danny Kempeneers and Stef Van de Perre, both recorded since 1 January 2020, and Marc Van Doninck since 1 July 2021. None of these five people is recorded as an officer of deSter Holding B.V., KvK 33201067. They belong to a different legal entity in a different jurisdiction and must not be carried across to this Dutch company.

Data availability

Restricted and partial. The Dutch trade register publishes directors and their representation authority only through a paid extract, and its public web search is not machine-readable, so the stored single record could neither be confirmed nor extended. Nationality is recorded as Not disclosed: the Dutch trade register extract does not publish a director’s nationality, and no official source was found that records it for this appointment. Country of residence is likewise not disclosed; the stored address country NL is a correspondence country on a provider record, not evidence of residence. No date of birth is published here, and none should be.

Sources

• Zavia.ai stored provider record for officers, sourced from Netherlands Chamber of Commerce (KvK). URL as text: https://www.kvk.nl — record last synchronised 25 September 2026, read 28 September 2026.
• deSter, Imprint (naming deSter BV, BE 0413.763.693, and its chairman and chief executive officer). URL as text: https://www.dester.com/imprint/ — retrieved 28 September 2026.
• Crossroads Bank for Enterprises (KBO/BCE) public search, registered entity 0413.763.693 — deSter, showing directors and their recorded start dates. URL as text: https://kbopub.economie.fgov.be/kbopub/toonondernemingps.html?lang=en&ondernemingsnummer=413763693 — database situation 27 September 2026, retrieved 28 September 2026.

Group structure of deSter Holding B.V.

deSter Holding B.V. is part of a corporate group, but the specific link that attaches it to that group is not supported by any filing this research could obtain. The corporate-linkage tree stored for this company holds 97 entities across ten levels and places deSter Holding B.V. six levels below the root. Trees of this kind have repeatedly been found to assert relationships that no register supports, so the stored structure is treated here as a lead rather than as evidence.

The upper part of that chain does check out against a court filing. In the matter of gategroup Guarantee Limited (claim CR-2020-004615, Business and Property Courts of England and Wales, Insolvency and Companies List), the skeleton argument dated 11 January 2021 states that gategroup Holding AG, incorporated in Switzerland with its registered office in Opfikon, Zurich, is almost entirely owned by Saffron Asset Holding Limited of Hong Kong, with the remaining 1.1% of its equity held by the group’s senior executives; that Saffron’s immediate parent is Turnip Assets Holdings Pte Ltd of Singapore; and that the ultimate owners at that date were Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited and RRJ Capital Master Fund III, L.P., each holding 50% of gategroup Holding AG, through ESTA Investments Pte Ltd and Orchard Asset Holding Ltd respectively. The same filing records gategroup Holding AG as sole owner of both gategroup Finance (Luxembourg) SA and gategroup Financial Services S.à r.l., and states that gategroup Financial Services S.à r.l. owns Gate Gourmet Luxembourg IV S.à r.l., which in turn owns over 200 operating subsidiaries in over 60 countries. Those steps appear in the stored tree in exactly that order, which is why the top of the tree is reported here as corroborated.

Control at the top has since changed. On 2 March 2021 the European Commission decided, under Article 6(1)(b) of the EU Merger Regulation, not to oppose Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited’s acquisition of sole control over the whole of gategroup Holding AG, which had until then been jointly controlled by Temasek and RRJ Capital Master Fund III, L.P. (Case M.10152). The earlier move to joint control had been cleared on 29 August 2019 (Case M.9418). The 50/50 position described in the January 2021 court filing is therefore historical.

What remains unverified is the step that matters for this page. No filing obtained names Gate Gourmet Luxembourg IV S.à r.l., or any other company, as the holder of shares in deSter Holding B.V. The company’s own published material does confirm group membership at brand level: its About page states that deSter has been part of gategroup since September 2007, and the February 2024 press release issued in the name of deSter Holding BV carries gategroup’s corporate boilerplate and a gategroup.com media contact. That is evidence that deSter Holding B.V. sits inside the gategroup group. It is not evidence of the intermediate legal steps, and it supports no percentage.

Verified corporate relationships

The stored tree additionally places gategroup Solutions Hong Kong Limited, deSter Hong Kong Limited (and beneath it a Shanghai company), DESTER SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS S.L. in Spain and, higher up, Dester Corporation in Ohio, around deSter Holding B.V. None of those links could be confirmed from a register or a filing and none is presented here as verified.

Recent structural changes

• 2 March 2021 — the European Commission cleared Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited’s acquisition of sole control of gategroup Holding AG, ending the 50/50 joint control held with RRJ Capital Master Fund III, L.P. (Case M.10152).
• 9 February 2024 — deSter Holding BV completed the acquisition of the production units of Nupik International, S.L. and Sky Paper, S.L.U. in Spain, together with an automated warehouse in Barcelona. This is a completed transaction announced in this company’s own name; the legal form the acquired operations now take is not stated in the announcement.
• 2021 — the company’s own About page records that deSter and SPIRIANT were merged. The announcement is a business statement and names no legal entities or registration numbers, so it is not presented here as a legal merger of identified companies.

Data availability

Partial, and restricted by jurisdiction. The Netherlands publishes no share register for a B.V. with more than one shareholder and releases a sole shareholder only in a paid extract, so the immediate parent of deSter Holding B.V. cannot be established from public Dutch sources. Luxembourg Business Registers, which would hold the filed accounts and participations of the two Luxembourg companies above, returned a maintenance page and HTTP 429 to every request on 28 September 2026 from both machines used, and the National Bank of Belgium’s accounts consultation service returned HTTP 403, so neither could be used to confirm the holding. On the question of whether this entity still exists: GLEIF records deSter Holding B.V. as an ACTIVE entity with no expiry date, no successor entity and an empty event list, so no completed Dutch legal merger (juridische fusie) or dissolution is recorded there — but its LEI registration has lapsed and was last updated on 15 July 2021, so that is not a live confirmation. The strongest positive evidence of continued existence is the company’s own press release of February 2024, issued in its registered name.

Sources

• High Court of Justice of England and Wales, Business and Property Courts, Insolvency and Companies List, claim CR-2020-004615, In the matter of gategroup Guarantee Limited — skeleton argument on behalf of gategroup Guarantee Limited, paragraphs 8 to 13. URL as text: https://files.lbr.cloud/public/2021-02/gg%20-%20Convening%20-%20Company’s%20Main%20Skeleton.pdf — dated 11 January 2021, retrieved 28 September 2026.
• European Commission, DG Competition, Case M.10152 — Temasek / gategroup, decision under Article 6(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 139/2004, C(2021) 1536 final. URL as text: https://ec.europa.eu/competition/mergers/cases1/202111/m10152_69_3.pdf — decision dated 2 March 2021, retrieved 28 September 2026.
• European Commission, DG Competition, Case M.9418 — Temasek / RRJ Master Fund III / gategroup, decision under Article 6(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 139/2004, C(2019) 6359 final. URL as text: https://ec.europa.eu/competition/mergers/cases/decisions/m9418_206_3.pdf — decision dated 29 August 2019, retrieved 28 September 2026.
• deSter press release, "deSter to acquire production units of Nupik International, S.L. and Sky Paper, S.L.U." URL as text: https://www.dester.com/newsroom/press-release/dester-to-acquire-production-units-of-nupik-international-s-l-and-sky-paper-s-l-u/ — published February 2024, completion 9 February 2024, retrieved 28 September 2026.
• deSter, About (company history, including September 2007 and the 2021 SPIRIANT merger). URL as text: https://www.dester.com/about/ — retrieved 28 September 2026.
• Crossroads Bank for Enterprises (KBO/BCE) public search, registered entity 0413.763.693 — deSter, Hoogstraten, Belgium. URL as text: https://kbopub.economie.fgov.be/kbopub/toonondernemingps.html?lang=en&ondernemingsnummer=413763693 — database situation 27 September 2026, retrieved 28 September 2026.
• Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), LEI record 5299009UGRS95R43R894 — entity status, event list and relationship endpoints. URL as text: https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/5299009UGRS95R43R894 — record last updated 15 July 2021, retrieved 28 September 2026.
• Zavia.ai stored corporate-linkage record, sourced from Netherlands Chamber of Commerce (KvK). URL as text: https://www.kvk.nl — last synchronised 25 September 2026, read 28 September 2026.