Week 1: The founding of Daylight on 28 March 1991
Today, 35 years ago, Daylight was officially founded as a private limited liability company. It has been 12,848 wonderful days since then, every one of the 1,110,067,200 seconds of which I have lived intensely.
Today, 35 years ago, Daylight was officially founded as a private limited liability company. It has been 12,848 wonderful days since then, every one of the 1,110,067,200 seconds of which I have lived intensely. Moments of joy, laughter, tears, hard work, challenges, learning, changing and innovating have followed one another. Getting the chance to spend 35 years building your dream of running your own company is a unique experience.
This anniversary is also a moment for reflection and renewal. That is why I am going to take the readers of this blog on a journey through time. For a whole year, every week I will put a key moment, event or person from Daylight's history in the spotlight. We start right at the beginning. I would also like to invite everyone who has worked with Daylight and has an experience they would like to share to send it to me, and it could become the topic of one of the coming weeks.
Daylight (then still called Hi-Light) was started by Ward Roef in a student room in Ghent at Sint-Jansvest 26. After a few initial years as a sole trader, a private limited liability company "Daylight" was founded on 28 March 1991 by Ward Roef and Christophe Dewil. The address at the time was Franklin Rooseveltlaan 308 in Ghent.
The articles of association were published in an annex to the Belgian Official Gazette on 26 April 1991.
INCORPORATION
From a deed executed before Notary Jacques VAN INNIS, in Sint-Amandsberg, now 9040 Ghent, on the twenty-eighth of March nineteen ninety-one, bearing the note Registered in GHENT 5, four sheets, no marginal additions. On 08 April 1991. Book 153, section 71, section 21. Received: THREE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY FRANCS Fr. 3,750. The Receiver, (signed) a.i., VANDEMAELE B." it appears that:
1\. Mr Ward ROEF, merchant, residing at 9000 Ghent, Sint-Jansvest, 26;
2\. Mr Christophe DEWIL, manual worker, residing at 3500 Hasselt, Vossebergstraat, 95.
have founded a PRIVATE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, the characteristics of which are:
Name: "DAYLIGHT".
Legal form: Private Limited Liability Company-
Registered Office: Franklin Rooseveltlaan, 308, in 9000 Ghent.
Duration: Indefinite from incorporation.
Purpose: The sale and rental of all forms of electronic information displays. The development and production of electronic information displays. The operation of all forms of advertising concessions on electronic displays. Software and hardware consultancy for the automation of businesses and public services. The sale and distribution of computer systems, including communication systems such as telephony, fax and the like, whether or not computer-linked. In-house engineering or engineering on behalf of third parties of electronic systems: study and development of automation and control systems, control of information processing, of information transfer, storage and management. Education and training of computer users and system users, organizing seminars and courses., ....
An administrative beginning, but a very important milestone nonetheless. The incorporation of the company is the official starting signal.
Until next week.