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Father Christmas joy for more than 800 children
Santa Claus, as he is called across the Atlantic, especially came down from up north to see us first, at the occasion of our Sunday market; a splendid opportunity to make countless children happy. We estimated them to be more than 800 to be spoilt Read more...
Happy New Year!
Management and personnel of Abatan s.a. ("Les Abattoirs et Marchés de Anderlecht" the "Caves de Cureghem" and the "Boeremet") send you their best wishes and hope to see you back next year as well, visiting their markets or taking part in other Read more...
Abatan takes part in the first of a series of publications on Cureghem
CUREGHEM PART I – THE HISTORICAL CONTEXTThe autor: Dirk De Caluwé Cureghem is quite a fascinating and seductive district, not in the least because of its versatility and its enormous richness. No material wealth though, because Cureghem holds no Read more...
New covered market ready by 2014 only
Delay due to soil decontamination works The new indoor market hall planned to arise next to the "Abattoirs of Anderlecht" next year, will only be ready by 2014. Unforeseen difficulties have caused major planning problems. The new hall should bring Read more...
Brussels Welcome Week-end, second edition
24 &25 March: Abatan and Cureghem warmly welcome you Just like last year, some ten quarters and communes from the Brussels Capital Region have worked out quite a varied programme that should attract a lot of people, inhabitants and tourists Read more...
Seven hundred horses under our registered market hall roof
There is no place in Brussels where one can or is allowed to let seven hundred horses accelerate from nought to one one hundred in less than three seconds, unless this happens on private property
A fine conversation with ...
At the end of the press conference during which Abatan revealed its “Global development vision” (Abatan 2020 Project), we had the chance to interview one of the driving forces behind this project, i.e. architect and engineer Jo Huygh. Along with the Read more...
Abatan honoured guest at “Terre Urbaine”
Our slaughterhouses are known to be the only ones to be located in a densely populated city centre. At the Télé Bruxelles TV studio, this phenomenon was considered remarkable enough to come and pay us a visit.
