The business magazine Trends has published a guide to the Top 30,000 businesses in Belgium which notes that industrial and trading companies' turnover rose 14% on 1999 to EUR 456 billion. Net profits also rose by 4.6% on last year to EUR 40.8 bn. The first part of the guide gives a consolidated hierarchy of the top 500 companies, headed by TRACTEBEL, Belgium's biggest company, followed by DELHAIZE, SOLVAY and INTERBREW. The most profitable company was ATOFINA (EUR 1.85 billion), followed by...