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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 2 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Busy address KBO
49 other companies have their registered office at the same address; threshold 10.
Financials
Financial year 2025
GROUPE BRUXELLES LAMBERT from Brussel, company number BE0407040209, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 57.2 million after tax. For that financial year GROUPE BRUXELLES LAMBERT recorded revenue of € 12.8 million and equity of € 11 billion. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -1.9 million to € 57.2 million. Profitable, and profit is growing. 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 June 4, 2026.
€ 11 billion
▼ 8% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 57.2 million
▲ still € 1.9 million loss in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 12.2 million
▲ 6% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 665.1 million paid out
More than the year’s profit went to the shareholders; reserves fell.
People and assets in 2025
49.4
▼ 1.9 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 20 million
▲ 13% vs 2024
€ 405,700 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.
€ 1.4 million
▲ 265% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 1.5 billion
▼ 40% vs 2024
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 6.8 million
▲ 33% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 102 days on average.
€ 4.1 million
▲ 12% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 4,929,280 | € 10,198,797 | € 12,781,176 | ▲ 25% |
| Profit after taxes | € -49,791,671 | € -1,883,509 | € 57,174,002 | ▲ € 59.1 million |
| Equity | € 13,211,987,296 | € 11,954,336,955 | € 11,000,849,319 | ▼ 8% |
| Total debts | € 3,425,043,321 | € 3,227,024,230 | € 2,213,747,932 | ▼ 31% |
| Cash | € 8,730,119 | € 11,423,974 | € 12,151,977 | ▲ 6% |
| Retained profit | € 9,039,231,056 | € 7,781,580,714 | € 6,828,093,078 | ▼ 12% |
| Dividend | € 380,502,227 | € 665,717,595 | € 665,141,432 | |
| Bank debt | € 2,991,151,715 | € 2,504,768,759 | € 1,498,567,615 | ▼ 40% |
| Balance sheet total | € 16,643,774,491 | € 15,217,556,879 | € 13,287,677,526 | ▼ 13% |
| Employees (FTE) | 51.3 | 51.3 | 49.4 | ▼ 1.9 |
Key figures of GROUPE BRUXELLES LAMBERT, fiscal years 2023 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2026) expected before 31 July 2027.
What happened to GROUPE BRUXELLES LAMBERT?
What happened at GROUPE BRUXELLES LAMBERT in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Alexandra SOTO stepped down as director. NBB
- Jacques VEYRAT stepped down as director. NBB
- Johannes HUTH stepped down as director. NBB
- Claude GENEREUX stepped down as director. NBB
- Ian GALLIENNE stepped down as director. NBB
- Paul, jr DESMARAIS stepped down as director. NBB
- Christian VAN THILLO stepped down as director. NBB
- Ségolène GALLIENNE - FRERE stepped down as director. NBB
In short
From € 49.8 million loss in 2023 to € 57.2 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 331,969 in corporate taxes since 2023.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 57.2 million profit.
Paid out € 1.7 billion in dividends to the owners in total.
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De Lijn 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025
filed on 8 June 2026
What was left
€ 20 k ▼ 91%
Money in the bank
€ 178 k ▼ 98%
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Management
The stake of URDAC, LTI Two comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
GROUPE BRUXELLES LAMBERTThe shares are held by Pargesa SA [kennisgeving per 14/09/2023] (45.3%), First Eagle Investment Management, LLC [kennisgeving per 23/06/2020] (6.1%), Artisan Partners LP [kennisgeving per 28/04/2025] (5%), Sagerpar SA/NV [per 31/12/2025] (3.6%), Groupe Bruxelles Lambert SA/NV [per 31/12/2025] (1.6%) and FINPAR XI SRL/BV [per 31/12/2025] (1.5%). It owns 100% of RPCE Consulting , 100% of GBL O, 100% of GBL Verwaltung , 100% of GBL Advisors DE GmbH, 100% of GBL Advisors Limited and 100% of Brussels Securities itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Alexandra SOTO
Director
since 2021 · until 2029
Ian GALLIENNE
Chairman of the board
since 2024 · until 2028
Paul, jr DESMARAIS
Vice-chairman of the board
since 2023 · until 2027
Christian VAN THILLO
Director
since 2023 · until 2027
Agnès TOURAINE
Director
since 2021 · until 2026
Jacques VEYRAT
Director
since 2021 · until 2029
Paul III DESMARAIS
Director
since 2018 · until 2026
Ségolène GALLIENNE - FRERE
Director
since 2023 · until 2027
Mary MEANEY
Director
since 2023 · until 2027
Johannes HUTH
Managing director
since 2025 · until 2029
Claude GENEREUX
Director
since 2021 · until 2029
Cedric Baron FRERE
Director
since 2023 · until 2027
Shareholders
Pargesa SA [kennisgeving per 14/09/2023]
45.3%
First Eagle Investment Management, LLC [kennisgeving per 23/06/2020]
6.1%
Artisan Partners LP [kennisgeving per 28/04/2025]
5%
Gérald [zie nota VOL-kap 6.20] Frère
0.5%
Ségolène [zie nota VOL-kap 6.20] Gallienne-Frère
0%
Paul, Jr. [zie nota VOL-kap 6.20] Desmarais
0%
Counsel Portfolio Services Inc [kennisgeving per 14/09/2023]
0%
The Desmarais Family Residuary Trust [kennisgeving per 14/09/2023]
0%
0.1%
0.1%
Participations
RPCE Consulting
100%
100%
GBL Verwaltung
100%
GBL Advisors DE GmbH
100%
GBL Advisors Limited
100%
100%
99%
99%
98.8%
98.6%
98.1%
96.6%
95%
94.9%
94.4%
90.2%
22.2%
19.8%
5.7%
1.2%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Marnixlaan 24
1000 Brussel
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Details
- Company number
- 0407.040.209
- VAT number
- BE 0407.040.209
- Registered office
- Marnixlaan 24, 1000 Brussel
- Names & denominations
- GROUPE BRUXELLES LAMBERT · GBL · GROEP BRUSSEL LAMBERT
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 10 January 1902
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 8 Sept 2025
- Activities · NACE
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