Gls Belgium Distribution

Shareholders of GLS Belgium Distribution NV/SA

The record on file shows a single direct shareholder: General Logistics Systems B.V., a company incorporated in the Netherlands, holding 100 per cent. Belgian company law does not require shareholder identities to be published in the Crossroads Bank for Enterprises, so this holding cannot be confirmed from the public register entry for enterprise number 0883.914.874; the share register itself is maintained by the company and is not a public document. The holding is consistent with the entity’s position in the GLS parcel network as published on the official GLS Belgium corporate information page, which lists GLS Belgium Distribution NV/SA at Humaniteitslaan / Boulevard de l’Humanité 233, 1620 Drogenbos alongside a second Belgian entity, General Logistics Systems Belgium NV/SA (enterprise number 0479.101.608).

Ultimate beneficial ownership

No natural-person beneficial owner can be established from open sources. Belgium’s UBO register (register van uiteindelijke begunstigden / registre UBO), operated by the Federal Public Service Finance, is not openly public: following the Court of Justice of the European Union ruling of 22 November 2022, general public access was withdrawn and consultation is restricted to competent authorities, obliged entities carrying out customer due diligence, and persons who can demonstrate a legitimate interest. Any UBO statement for this company must therefore be obtained through that restricted channel or from the company itself.

Above the recorded Dutch shareholder, the chain recorded on file runs through UK and Luxembourg holding entities to EP Group a.s. (Czechia) and EP Investment S.à r.l. (Luxembourg). The element of that chain supported by an official document is the United Kingdom final order under the National Security and Investment Act, which came into force on 19 December 2024 and addresses the acquisition by EP UK Bidco Limited of 75 per cent or more of the shares in International Distributions Services plc, naming EP Group a.s. (formerly EP Corporate Group, a.s.) as a party subject to the order. Reputable reporting of that transaction states that International Distributions Services owned the GLS parcel business alongside Royal Mail. EP Group is privately held and no register consulted publishes a natural person as its ultimate controller; press reporting associates the group with Daniel Křetinský (Kretinsky), but that attribution is not taken from a register entry and is not asserted here as verified ownership.

An effective percentage from the ultimate parent down to GLS Belgium Distribution NV/SA cannot be calculated, because the percentage holdings at the intermediate links in the chain are not published.

Data availability

The Crossroads Bank for Enterprises publishes identification, address, status, activity codes and functions, but not shareholdings. Shareholding information for Belgian companies is available chiefly through the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium and through deeds published in the Belgian Official Gazette (Moniteur Belge / Belgisch Staatsblad). The UBO register is not openly public, as set out above. Shareholder details shown here that are not attributed to an official source are recorded data and should be re-verified against a register extract or the company’s own confirmation before being relied upon.

Directors and officers of GLS Belgium Distribution NV/SA

The Crossroads Bank for Enterprises entry for enterprise number 0883.914.874 currently shows two persons holding functions in the company:

• Luc De Schryver — director and managing director (bestuurder / gedelegeerd bestuurder), recorded since 1 May 2018. The name also appears as “Luc De Schrijver” on the official GLS Belgium corporate information page, which names him as managing director for the Belgian entities; the spelling variant should be reconciled against an official extract. Nationality: not disclosed.
• Achim Dünnwald — director, recorded since 20 July 2024. Nationality: not disclosed.

The underlying record on file lists Rico Back as a current director of this company. That entry could not be confirmed: the register shows only the two functions set out above, and Rico Back is not among them. The same applies to three further names carried on file without dates — James Rietkerk, Michel Allé and Leopold Cools — none of which appear among the current functions in the register. These entries should be treated as historic or stale rather than as current board members; Rico Back is publicly known as the former chief executive of Royal Mail, who left that role in 2020, which makes a current Belgian directorship in his name a data-quality flag rather than a finding.

The record on file also shows an appointment for Luc De Schrijver dated 12 September 2023 with a mandate end of 11 September 2029, while the register records his function as held since 1 May 2018. The two are compatible if the 2023 entry is the renewal of an existing mandate. A mandate end date is the scheduled expiry of the term of office fixed by the appointing general meeting; it is not a resignation and carries no implication that the director has left or will leave. A director remains in office until the expiry date and may be reappointed at or before that point, so the 2029 date should be read as the date by which a renewal decision is due.

Recent officer changes

• 20 July 2024 — Achim Dünnwald recorded in the register as director.
• 12 September 2023 — mandate recorded on file for Luc De Schrijver as director, with a mandate end of 11 September 2029 (source: record on file, not confirmed against a register publication).
• 1 May 2018 — Luc De Schryver recorded in the register as director and managing director.

Data availability

The Crossroads Bank for Enterprises publishes the names and start dates of functions but does not publish directors’ dates of birth, nationalities or addresses. Appointments, resignations and mandate renewals for a Belgian NV/SA are published in the Belgian Official Gazette (Moniteur Belge / Belgisch Staatsblad), which is the authoritative source for the effective dates and for any resignation not yet reflected in the register. Nationality is stated as not disclosed for both current officers; it is not inferred from a name.

Group structure of GLS Belgium Distribution NV/SA

The table sets out the relationships recorded for this entity, separating what an official source supports from what is carried on file but could not be verified in this review. The immediate parent is the Dutch entity General Logistics Systems B.V.; the entities above it are holding companies, and the ultimate parent recorded is the Czech group EP Group a.s.

On the change of control: the United Kingdom issued a final order under the National Security and Investment Act, in force on 19 December 2024, in respect of the acquisition by EP UK Bidco Limited of 75 per cent or more of the shareholding in International Distributions Services plc, with EP Group a.s. named as a party subject to the order. The transaction subsequently completed in 2025 following clearance by the European Commission and the delisting of IDS shares from the London Stock Exchange; a precise completion date could not be confirmed from a primary filing in this review and is therefore not stated. Neither the Belgian register entry for enterprise number 0883.914.874 nor the final order names GLS Belgium Distribution NV/SA, so the link between this Belgian entity and the EP Group chain rests on the recorded shareholder data and on reporting that International Distributions Services owned the GLS parcel business.

Data availability

The Crossroads Bank for Enterprises does not publish parent-subsidiary relationships or shareholdings. Belgian group relationships are disclosed in the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium, where the participating interests and the consolidating parent are reported, and in deeds published in the Belgian Official Gazette. Rows above marked “recorded” or “record on file” come from the underlying dataset and not from a register extract obtained in this review; they should be re-verified against filed accounts before being relied upon for a control determination.