TEXAF, is a Belgian investment company listed on Euronext, with diversified operations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo spanning real estate, industry, and digital sectors. With its corporate headquarters situated at Avenue Louise 130A in Brussels, TEXAF traces its origins to 14 August 1925, when it was founded in the then-Belgian Congo as Société Textile Africaine by a consortium of Belgian industrialists. The company grew rapidly, branching into sectors such as cotton cultivation, energy production, and transportation logistics, and by 1928, it held the ninth-largest market capitalization among Belgian-Congolese companies before later co-founding the Société Hydro-électrique de Sanga. By 1930, TEXAF dominated regional cotton production with 32 ginneries, 7,500 tons of output, and vast agricultural projects including experimental concessions and even elephant domestication. Despite industrial dominance by 1930, the global economic crisis and overexpansion led to major losses. Wikipedia