Career
Flanders Expo is the biggest event hall in Flanders, and the second biggest in Belgium (Flanders Expo"s indoor surface is 55,000 m²). Mortier later became president of Febelux, the Federation of Exhibitions in Belgium and Luxemburg. Until 2002, many concerts took place in Flanders Expo.
Hall 8"s capacity is more than 13,000 people.
Flanders Expo is also the host of Europe"s biggest indoor techno party (I love Techno) with more than 60,000 visitors in one day. After the degradation in 1988, Mortier consulted the Prime Minister of Belgium, Wilfried Martens, in order to establish an organisation named Foot Invest, to get the team back on track.
Marc Mortier gathered at that time more than 50 million Belgian francs (125 million euros) in sponsoring in a couple of months and introduced VDK Spaarbank as the main sponsor. Mortier died in hospital of a heart attack on 3 May 2004.