TIPS is a publisher in Oostende. Public Limited, started on 1 October 1967, 1 establishment.

What is the address of TIPS?

The registered office of TIPS is located at Marconistraat 3, 8400 Oostende.

Is TIPS still active?

Yes. According to the CBE (29 October 2026) TIPS is active, legal situation “Normale toestand”, started on 1 October 1967.

Is TIPS registered on Peppol?

Yes, TIPS is registered on the Peppol network with ID 0208:0406823245.

What is the enterprise number of TIPS?

The enterprise number of TIPS is BE0406823245.

When was TIPS founded?

TIPS was founded on 1 October 1967.

Who are the directors of TIPS?

According to the 2025 annual accounts, the directors of TIPS are: Norbert Haeck, Christine Haeck, Paula Dumarey, Macrifi BV, Philip Haeck, Marianne Haeck.

Is TIPS a reliable company?

Databakkes does not pass judgement; this is what the sources say: Active according to the CBE since 1 October 1967; 4 annual accounts filed, latest fiscal year 2025; 6 directors known from the annual account.

How much profit did TIPS make in 2025?

TIPS recorded a loss after taxes of € 147,405 in financial year 2025.

What is the revenue of TIPS?

As a small company, TIPS is not required to publish revenue in its annual accounts. In financial year 2025, its added value was € 857,969.

How much does an employee at TIPS earn?

The average wage cost per full-time employee at TIPS was € 90,100 in 2025: staff costs of € 991,055 for 11 FTE, according to the annual account at the National Bank. That is the employer's cost, not net pay.

How many employees does TIPS have?

According to the 2025 annual accounts, TIPS has 11 full-time equivalents (FTE).

TIPS (Public Limited) - Oostende - BE0406823245

Dossier TIPS, printed on 29 October 2026 from databakkes.be/en/0406823245/tips. Sources: CBE, National Bank of Belgium, Belgian Official Gazette.

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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.

Two loss years in a row NBB

Negative result in 2023 and 2025.
Shrinking team NBB

FTE fell two years in a row, from 13 to 11.

Financials

Financial year 2025

TIPS from Oostende, company number BE0406823245, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -147,405 after tax. For that financial year TIPS recorded a gross margin of € 857,969 and equity of € 1.2 million. Compared with financial year 2023, the result moved from € -120,912 to € -147,405. The company made a loss. The company holds a healthy buffer. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on November 27, 2025.

What it is worth Healthy

€ 1.2 million

▼ 11% vs 2023

Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.

Loss Caution

€ -147,405

▼ 22 % more loss than in 2023

Profit after tax over the fiscal year.

Cash in the bank

€ 100,707

▼ 47% vs 2023

Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.

Where the profit goes Caution

Loss, nothing to pay out

Reserves fell to € 579,842.

People and assets in 2025

Full-time equivalents

▼ 0.6 vs 2023

Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.

Wage cost

€ 991,055

▲ 24% vs 2023

€ 90,100 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.

Vehicles and equipment

€ 54,878

▼ 36% vs 2023

Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.

Debts at end 2025

Bank debt

None

No bank loans on the last day of the fiscal year.

Owed to suppliers

€ 157,482

▲ 41% vs 2023

Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.

Taxes and wages

€ 132,088

▲ 1% vs 2023

Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.

Key figures per fiscal year Download key figures (CSV)
	2021	2022	2023	2025	Change 2023 → 2025
Gross margin	€ 841,966 Gross margin 2021: € 841,966 First fiscal year in the series	€ 731,588 Gross margin 2022: € 731,588 ▼ 13% vs 2021 (€ 841,966) Unfavourable step	€ 781,845 Gross margin 2023: € 781,845 ▲ 7% vs 2022 (€ 731,588) Favourable step	€ 857,969 Gross margin 2025: € 857,969 ▲ 10% vs 2023 (€ 781,845) Favourable step	▲ 10%
Profit after taxes	€ 96,407 Profit after taxes 2021: € 96,407 First fiscal year in the series	€ -96,373 Profit after taxes 2022: € -96,373 ▼ € 192,780 vs 2021 (€ 96,407) Unfavourable step	€ -120,912 Profit after taxes 2023: € -120,912 ▼ € 24,539 vs 2022 (€ -96,373) Unfavourable step	€ -147,405 Profit after taxes 2025: € -147,405 ▼ € 26,493 vs 2023 (€ -120,912) Unfavourable step	▼ € 26,493
Equity	€ 1,594,533 Equity 2021: € 1,594,533 First fiscal year in the series	€ 1,498,160 Equity 2022: € 1,498,160 ▼ 6% vs 2021 (€ 1,594,533) Unfavourable step	€ 1,377,247 Equity 2023: € 1,377,247 ▼ 8% vs 2022 (€ 1,498,160) Unfavourable step	€ 1,229,842 Equity 2025: € 1,229,842 ▼ 11% vs 2023 (€ 1,377,247) Unfavourable step	▼ 11%
Total debts	€ 298,469 Total debts 2021: € 298,469 First fiscal year in the series	€ 443,567 Total debts 2022: € 443,567 ▲ 49% vs 2021 (€ 298,469) Unfavourable step	€ 493,538 Total debts 2023: € 493,538 ▲ 11% vs 2022 (€ 443,567) Unfavourable step	€ 818,420 Total debts 2025: € 818,420 ▲ 66% vs 2023 (€ 493,538) Unfavourable step	▲ 66%
Cash	€ 441,766 Cash 2021: € 441,766 First fiscal year in the series	€ 528,014 Cash 2022: € 528,014 ▲ 20% vs 2021 (€ 441,766) Favourable step	€ 189,781 Cash 2023: € 189,781 ▼ 64% vs 2022 (€ 528,014) Unfavourable step	€ 100,707 Cash 2025: € 100,707 ▼ 47% vs 2023 (€ 189,781) Unfavourable step	▼ 47%
Land & buildings	€ 15,664 Land & buildings 2021: € 15,664 First fiscal year in the series	€ 11,074 Land & buildings 2022: € 11,074 ▼ 29% vs 2021 (€ 15,664) Unchanged	€ 6,484 Land & buildings 2023: € 6,484 ▼ 41% vs 2022 (€ 11,074) Unchanged	€ 765 Land & buildings 2025: € 765 ▼ 88% vs 2023 (€ 6,484) Unchanged	▼ 88%
Retained profit	€ 944,533 Retained profit 2021: € 944,533 First fiscal year in the series	€ 848,160 Retained profit 2022: € 848,160 ▼ 10% vs 2021 (€ 944,533) Unfavourable step	€ 727,247 Retained profit 2023: € 727,247 ▼ 14% vs 2022 (€ 848,160) Unfavourable step	€ 579,842 Retained profit 2025: € 579,842 ▼ 20% vs 2023 (€ 727,247) Unfavourable step	▼ 20%
Balance sheet total	€ 1,893,002 Balance sheet total 2021: € 1,893,002 First fiscal year in the series	€ 1,941,727 Balance sheet total 2022: € 1,941,727 ▲ 3% vs 2021 (€ 1,893,002) Unchanged	€ 1,870,786 Balance sheet total 2023: € 1,870,786 ▼ 4% vs 2022 (€ 1,941,727) Unchanged	€ 2,048,262 Balance sheet total 2025: € 2,048,262 ▲ 9% vs 2023 (€ 1,870,786) Unchanged	▲ 9%
Employees (FTE)	13 Employees (FTE) 2021: 13 First fiscal year in the series	13 Employees (FTE) 2022: 13 Unchanged (13) Unchanged	11.6 Employees (FTE) 2023: 11.6 ▼ 1.4 vs 2022 (13) Unchanged	11 Employees (FTE) 2025: 11 ▼ 0.6 vs 2023 (11.6) Unchanged	▼ 0.6

Key figures of TIPS, fiscal years 2021 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2026) expected before 31 October 2026.

What happened to TIPS?

What happened at TIPS in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:

Nov 27, 2025 New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 147,405. filed late Source: NBB ↗
2024 Christine Haeck stepped down as director. NBB
2024 Paula Dumarey stepped down as director. NBB
2024 Macrifi BV stepped down as director. NBB
2024 Philip Haeck stepped down as director. NBB
2024 Marianne Haeck stepped down as director. NBB
2002 Norbert Haeck became a director. NBB
2002 Christine Haeck became a director. NBB

In short

From € 96,407 profit in 2021 to € 147,405 loss in 2025.

Paid € 42,131 in corporate taxes since 2021.

Best year ever: 2021, with € 96,407 profit.

On average € 78,000 of value added per employee in 2025.

Original PDFs at the National Bank ↗

Management

MACRIFI 25%

The stake of MACRIFI comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.

TIPS

Behind TIPS is Norbert Haeck. The shares are held by MACRIFI (25%).

Directors

According to the 2025 annual accounts

Norbert Haeck

Director

Also active at: BOOT CENTER, Immobiliën Bouw en Coördinatie, MACRIFI, ZEEDROOM, FICRIMA

since 2002

Christine Haeck

Director

Also active at: BOOT CENTER, FICRIMA

since 2002 · until 2024

Paula Dumarey

Director

Also active at: FICRIMA

since 2002 · until 2024

Macrifi BV

Managing director · represented by Haeck NORBERT

Also active at: ZEEDROOM

since 2002 · until 2024

Philip Haeck

Director

Also active at: BOOT CENTER, FICRIMA

since 2002 · until 2024

Marianne Haeck

Director

Also active at: BOOT CENTER, FICRIMA

since 2002 · until 2024

Shareholders

MACRIFI

25%

Participations

No participations in other companies reported.

Establishments

Establishment units

Physical locations of this company

Registered office

Marconistraat 3

8400 Oostende

Who else lives here?

A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 5 companies are registered at this address.

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BOOT CENTER same network

€ -35,694 gross margin · 2025

Immobiliën Bouw en Coördinatie same network

€ -410,885 gross margin · 2025

MACRIFI same network

€ 2.9 million gross margin · 2025

COAST LINE

FICRIMA same network

€ 26,530 gross margin · 2025

What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.

Details

Company number

0406.823.245

VAT number

BE 0406.823.245

Registered office

Marconistraat 3, 8400 Oostende

Names & denominations

TIPS

Enterprise type

Rechtspersoon

Legal form

Public limited company

Legal situation

Normale toestand

Start date

1 October 1967

Peppol

Active · Active since 8 Oct 2025

Contact

059/508877

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