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  • Jason Kalamboussis
  • Michiel Declercq
  • Olivier Vandewoude
  • Ruben Devos
  • Wim Hoste

Morning Note: AGS BB, AVTX NA, DIE BB, EKOP BB, MELE BB, MIKO BB, PROX BB, QFG BB

Ageas: New strategic targets, acceleration of growth, TP up
Avantium: Avantium’s lignin used in test road project
D'Ieteren: Car registrations in May remain flat
Ekopak: Expanding its client portfolio one step at a time
Melexis: It’s not only Auto
Miko: Sale approved… Wake up, and smell the upside
Proximus: BCA approves acquisition of Mobile Vikings
Quest for Growth: Varacyte to acquire Haliodx
Underlyings
Ageas SA/NV

Ageas is an insurance company engaged in providing a range of life and non-life products distributed through a variety of channels. Co. focuses on helping its customers to mitigate risks related to property, casualty, life and pensions. Co. serves its customers through a combination of wholly owned subsidiaries, equity associates and partnerships, with financial institutions and distributors in Belgium, the U.K., Luxembourg, Italy, Portugal, Turkey, France, China, Malaysia, India, Thailand and Hong Kong. Co. is organized into five operating segments: Belgium, U.K., Continental Europe, Asia, and General Account.

Avantium NV

Avantium NV Formerly known as Avantium Holding BV. Avantium NV, formerly Avantium Holding BV, is a company based in the Netherlands engaged in environmental research and development (R&D). The Company develops chemical technologies and production processes to convert bio-based feedstock into sustainable products. The Company's business comprises three segments: Catalysis, Renewable Chemistries, and YXY. Catalysis segment provides catalysis R&D services and systems to chemical, refinery and energy companies, utilizing its Flowrence Technology Platform to devise the appropriate catalyst testing solutions. Renewable Chemistries is the development division with a portfolio of projects focusing on the conversion of biomass to chemical building blocks and plastic materials. The YXY segment comprises the activities of Syviana, the joint venture with BASF SE. The YXY technology is used to convert plant-based sugars into chemical building blocks for plastics, such as polymer polyethylenefuranoate (PEF), and other applications.

D'Ieteren SA

D'Ieteren is engaged in two sectors of services to the motorist: Automobile Distribution, which is a distributor of Volkswagen, Audi, Seat, Skoda, Bentley, Lamborghini, Bugatti, Porsche, and Yamaha brands in Belgium; and Vehicle Glass, which is engaged in the repair and replacement of vehicle glass mainly in Europe, North and South America, Australia and New Zealand through Belron s.a. and notably its CARGLASS®, AUTOGLASS® and SAFELITE® AUTO GLASS brands.

Melexis NV

Melexis designs, develops, tests and markets advanced integrated circuits primarily for the automotive industry. Co. sells its products to a wide customer base in the automotive, medical and industrial markets in Europe, Asia and North America. Co.'s main products are Hall effect ICs, Pressure and Acceleration Sensors, Sensor Interface ICs, Automotive Systems-on-a-Chip, Embedded Microcontrollers, Bus System Chips, Optical and Infrared sensors. In each case the products are primarily developed for automotive applications and designated lead customers with subsequent use in commercial and industrial applications.

Miko N.V.

Miko SA. Miko NV is a Belgium-based company that is engaged coffee and snacks service and plastic packaging sectors. The Company's coffee segment delivers Its products to the out-of-home market, such as coffee, fruits, water and other beverages, snacks and sweets that are consumed outside the private home, in places like offices, businesses and restaurants. Within the Plastics segment, the Company manufactures plastic packaging products, among others for the food industry and the homecare sector, such as bubble wraps for laundry detergent. Miko NV has subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Sweden, Denmark and Australia. It also sells its coffee concepts through independent distributors in thirty countries in Europe, among others.

Proximus SA de droit public

Proximus supplies integrated telecommunications services on the Belgian market. Co.'s activities are divided into four segments: Consumer Business Unit (CBU), which sells voice products and services, internet and television, on fixed and mobile networks, to residential customers; Enterprise Business Unit (EBU), which caters to professional customers; Service Delivery Engine and Wholesale, which centralizes all the network and IT services and costs, provides services to CBU and EBU and sells these services to other telecom and cable operators; and International Carrier Services, which focuses on international carrier activities.

Quest for Growth

Quest for Growth Privak Leuven is a Belgium-based closed-end private equity fund. The Fund focuses on European technology-based growth companies covering such sectors as life sciences, information technology, software, semiconductors, telecom, electronics, new materials and special situations in other growth sectors. The Fund invests in growth companies with the objective of converting capital gains into tax-free income through the Privak structure, an investment vehicle tailored to provide a framework for investments in private equity and in growth companies. As of Dec. 31, 2013, the Fund's investment portfolio totaled Euro120,264,108 and assets totaled Euro125,347,624.

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Analysts
Guy Sips

Jason Kalamboussis

Michiel Declercq

Olivier Vandewoude

Ruben Devos

Wim Hoste

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