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Signals from the annual accounts, the CBE and the Official Gazette, each with its threshold and source. No score, no verdict.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 68.8 to 52.7.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Brussels Expo from Brussel, company number BE0406655573, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 6.6 million after tax. For that financial year Brussels Expo recorded revenue of € 61.9 million and equity of € 68.6 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 7.2 million to € 6.6 million. The company is profitable. The buffer is growing. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on January 8, 2026.
€ 68.6 million
▲ 24% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 6.6 million
▼ 8% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 45.9 million
▲ 50% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
People and assets in 2025
52.7
▼ 7.8 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 5.1 million
▼ 12% vs 2024
€ 97,600 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.
€ 292,056
▲ € 234,950 vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 13.1 million
▼ 9% vs 2024
€ 1.4 million is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 9 years.
€ 12.6 million
▲ 1% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 98 days on average.
€ 1.9 million
▲ 36% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 24,683,725 | € 44,040,108 | € 50,013,113 | € 61,925,524 | ▲ 24% |
| Profit after taxes | € -4,840,863 | € 3,344,374 | € 7,183,440 | € 6,625,867 | ▼ 8% |
| Equity | € 33,701,742 | € 41,564,567 | € 55,264,636 | € 68,558,970 | ▲ 24% |
| Total debts | € 43,422,394 | € 36,038,258 | € 34,496,667 | € 37,007,996 | ▲ 7% |
| Cash | € 10,032,277 | € 18,481,549 | € 30,594,674 | € 45,908,479 | ▲ 50% |
| Land & buildings | € 2,331,063 | € 2,331,063 | € 2,331,063 | € 2,331,063 | |
| Retained profit | € 21,366,292 | € 29,710,667 | € 38,894,107 | € 45,519,974 | ▲ 17% |
| Bank debt | € 21,626,697 | € 18,785,842 | € 14,448,646 | € 13,076,323 | ▼ 9% |
| Balance sheet total | € 83,202,345 | € 80,690,010 | € 90,239,957 | € 106,015,621 | ▲ 17% |
| Employees (FTE) | 83.3 | 68.8 | 60.5 | 52.7 | ▼ 7.8 |
Key figures of Brussels Expo, fiscal years 2022 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2026) expected before 30 January 2027.
What happened to Brussels Expo?
What happened at Brussels Expo in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 6.6 million (▼ 8% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Brussel. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 4.8 million loss in 2022 to € 6.6 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 141,161 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 7.2 million profit.
Pays suppliers within 98 days on average.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Belgiëplein 1
1020 Brussel
Belgiëplein SN
1020 Brussel
Active since 1 January 1936
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Details
- Company number
- 0406.655.573
- VAT number
- BE 0406.655.573
- Registered office
- Belgiëplein 1, 1020 Brussel
- Names & denominations
- BRUSSELS EXPO · Brussels Expo
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Non-profit association
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 1 January 1936
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Organisatie van congressen en beurzen
Organisatie van salons, tentoonstellingen en beurzen