Financials
Financial year 2024
Belga News Agency from Brussel, company number BE0403481693, closed financial year 2024 with a result of € 302,951 after tax. For that financial year Belga News Agency recorded revenue of € 29.8 million and equity of € 3.7 million. Compared with financial year 2023, the result moved from € 305,714 to € 302,951. The company is profitable. The buffer is growing. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on May 28, 2025.
€ 3.7 million
▲ 9% vs 2023
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 302,951
▼ 1% vs 2023
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 4.7 million
▲ 57% vs 2023
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Stays in the company
No dividend for 2024. Retained profit grew to € 3.3 million.
People and assets in 2024
121.4
▼ 1.5 vs 2023
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 11.9 million
▲ 4% vs 2023
€ 98,400 per full-time equivalent. Payroll staff only. What the director pays themselves is already netted into the gross margin and is not shown separately in the accounts.
€ 404,742
▲ 12% vs 2023
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2024
None
No bank loans on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 3.6 million
▼ 10% vs 2023
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 79 days on average.
€ 1.6 million
▼ 8% vs 2023
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Change 2023 → 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 26,624,979 | € 28,209,469 | € 29,708,459 | € 29,795,776 | |
| Profit after taxes | € 293,111 | € 193,120 | € 305,714 | € 302,951 | ▼ 1% |
| Equity | € 2,943,849 | € 3,136,969 | € 3,442,683 | € 3,745,634 | ▲ 9% |
| Total debts | € 11,211,208 | € 11,498,434 | € 9,777,836 | € 9,508,750 | ▼ 3% |
| Cash | € 4,663,174 | € 4,942,326 | € 3,010,416 | € 4,727,711 | ▲ 57% |
| Retained profit | € 2,497,125 | € 2,690,245 | € 2,995,958 | € 3,298,910 | ▲ 10% |
| Bank debt | € 353 | € 0 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Balance sheet total | € 14,180,230 | € 14,639,453 | € 13,220,518 | € 13,254,384 | |
| Employees (FTE) | 125.5 | 122.2 | 122.9 | 121.4 | ▼ 1.5 |
Key figures of Belga News Agency, fiscal years 2021 to 2024, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.The annual account for fiscal year 2025 has not been filed yet; it was expected before 31 July 2026.
What happened to Belga News Agency?
What happened at Belga News Agency in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2024: profit of € 302,951 (▼ 1% vs 2023). Source: NBB ↗
- Denis PIERRARD stepped down as director. NBB
- Bernard MARCHANT stepped down as director. NBB
- Koen VERWEE stepped down as director. NBB
- Frederik DELAPLACE stepped down as director. NBB
- Guillaume COLLARD stepped down as director. NBB
- Piet VROMAN stepped down as director. NBB
- Denis PIERRARD became a director. NBB
In short
From € 293,111 profit in 2021 to € 302,951 profit in 2024.
Paid € 970,971 in corporate taxes since 2021.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 305,714 profit.
Pays suppliers within 79 days on average.
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€ 20 k ▼ 91%
Money in the bank
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Management
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Directors
According to the 2024 annual accounts
since 2024 · until 2025
Bernard MARCHANT
Director
Also active at: Grenz-Echo, Les Editions rurales - De Landelijke Uitgeverijen, GROUPE VLAN, ROSSEL INTERACTIVE MEDIA, ROSSEL & Cie, Rossel-Hurbain, OSTBELGISCHER MEDIENVERLAG, AUDIOPRESSE +34 more
since 2024 · until 2025
Koen VERWEE
Director
since 2024 · until 2025
Frederik DELAPLACE
Director
since 2024 · until 2025
Guillaume COLLARD
Director
since 2024 · until 2025
Piet VROMAN
Director
since 2024 · until 2025
Shareholders
Participations
16.7%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Arduinkaai 28-29
1000 Brussel
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Details
- Company number
- 0403.481.693
- VAT number
- BE 0403.481.693
- Registered office
- Arduinkaai 28-29, 1000 Brussel
- Names & denominations
- Belga News Agency
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 20 August 1920
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 1 Jan 2001
- Activities · NACE
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