SPDG

SPDG is a seventh-generation family enterprise that acts as the holding company of the Périer-D'Ieteren family, based in Brussels and Paris. It deploys capital toward sustainable, profitable growth, and describes itself as free of external fundraising needs, limited-partner conditions or a set investment horizon. After divesting the automotive services and logistics activities held within the D'Ieteren Group, SPDG has been steering capital toward operating companies tied to sustainable development. Chairman Olivier Périer is quoted as saying that private capital carries a responsibility to act where public bodies cannot do so alone, and that the firm aims to encourage innovation and sound practice across the ecosystems it touches, building momentum that other investors might follow. SPDG describes its method as blending the patience of family capital, strict governance standards, the ambitions of a private-equity fund and the perspective of an industrial owner.