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Wouter Torfs stops as CEO and gets into welfare work: “I don’t have to do it for the salary, I get a volunteer allowance”


Wouter Torfs closes the door of Schoenen Torfs behind him. “Although I will occasionally visit the workplace.” © Jeroen Hanselaer

From a shoe empire to welfare work. Wouter Torfs (64), CEO of the shoe chain of the same name, will stop as CEO and switch to the social sector. He becomes chairman of the Center for General Welfare (CAW). “I could no longer charge myself for the umpteenth purchase of shoes.”

Tommy Huyghebaert

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