Warning lights
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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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 38 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 4.9 to 3.4.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Brainbox from Ciney, company number BE0419684653, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 137,402 after tax. For that financial year Brainbox recorded a gross margin of € 419,611 and equity of € 634,732. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 97,246 to € 137,402. 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 March 18, 2026.
€ 634,732
▼ 1% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 137,402
▲ 41% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 280,396
▲ 91% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 135,000 paid out
98 % of the profit went to the shareholders, mostly to BRAINBOX INVEST (100 % of the shares). That is where the money ends up.
People and assets in 2025
3.4
▼ 0.9 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 149,983
▼ 35% vs 2024
€ 44,100 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.
€ 3,460
▼ 23% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
None
No bank loans on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 183,602
▲ 26% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 29,454
▼ 40% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 616,849 | € 516,381 | € 460,197 | € 419,611 | ▼ 9% |
| Profit after taxes | € 227,075 | € 146,377 | € 97,246 | € 137,402 | ▲ 41% |
| Equity | € 649,900 | € 648,213 | € 640,395 | € 634,732 | ▼ 1% |
| Total debts | € 1,380,142 | € 1,140,864 | € 911,860 | € 908,371 | |
| Cash | € 16,820 | € 26,259 | € 146,576 | € 280,396 | ▲ 91% |
| Land & buildings | € 849,872 | € 808,135 | € 760,040 | € 684,258 | ▼ 10% |
| Retained profit | € 531,248 | € 537,625 | € 537,872 | € 540,274 | |
| Dividend | € 140,000 | € 140,000 | € 97,000 | € 135,000 | ▲ 39% |
| Bank debt | € 367,243 | € 242,166 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Balance sheet total | € 2,030,042 | € 1,789,077 | € 1,552,255 | € 1,543,104 | ▼ 1% |
| Employees (FTE) | 4.8 | 4.9 | 4.3 | 3.4 | ▼ 0.9 |
Key figures of Brainbox, 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 April 2027.
What happened to Brainbox?
What happened at Brainbox in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 137,402 (▲ 41% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Sandra SWINNEN became a director. NBB
- FONDU & Co SRL became a director. NBB
- Philippe FONDU became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Ciney. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 227,075 profit in 2022 to € 137,402 profit in 2025.
Paid € 219,396 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 227,075 profit.
On average € 123,400 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of BRAINBOX INVEST comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
BrainboxBehind Brainbox are Sandra SWINNEN, FONDU & Co SRL and Philippe FONDU. The shares are held by BRAINBOX INVEST (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Sandra SWINNEN
Director
since 2024
Director · represented by Jean-Philippe FONDU
since 2024
Philippe FONDU
Director
since 2024
Shareholders
100%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Rue de Gorimont 1
5590 Ciney
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 1 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0419.684.653
- VAT number
- BE 0419.684.653
- Registered office
- Rue de Gorimont 1, 5590 Ciney
- Names & denominations
- Brainbox
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 24 August 1979
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 20 Nov 2020
- Contact
- brainbox.be [email protected] 083 67 78 40
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