The local business fabric
Hasselt is the capital of Limburg: the provincial government, the courts and the sector federations sit here, and with them a whole layer of lawyers, accountants and consultancies. The city has also lived on fashion and retail for decades — the stores around the Demerstraat pull shoppers from across the north-east of the country, and many of them are still family businesses. On the old Philips site, Corda Campus has grown into one of Belgium's largest technology campuses, where start-ups, scale-ups and the IT departments of established groups work side by side. These two worlds ask for very different things: a fashion retailer wants a shop that actually sells, a software firm on Corda wants a client portal that plugs into what it already runs. We work with both, without pretending it is the same project.