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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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 23.7 to 19.4.
Financials
Financial year 2025
ALTERNATIV WORKSPACE SOLUTIONS from Elsene, company number BE0423408859, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 34,546 after tax. For that financial year ALTERNATIV WORKSPACE SOLUTIONS recorded revenue of € 14.1 million and equity of € 1.4 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -125,747 to € 34,546. Profitable, and profit is growing. The buffer is growing. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on June 30, 2026.
€ 1.4 million
▲ 3% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 34,546
▲ still € 125,747 loss in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 1.4 million
▲ 97% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Stays in the company
No dividend for 2025. Retained profit grew to € 1 million.
People and assets in 2025
19.4
▼ 2.9 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 2.1 million
▼ 8% vs 2024
€ 107,400 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.
€ 39,213
▲ 71% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 414,225
▼ 35% vs 2024
€ 116,923 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 3 years.
€ 2.7 million
▲ 59% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 78 days on average.
€ 380,113
▲ 14% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 20,785,062 | € 12,526,377 | € 13,703,607 | € 14,054,473 | ▲ 3% |
| Profit after taxes | € 407,732 | € -49,847 | € -125,747 | € 34,546 | ▲ € 160,293 |
| Equity | € 1,506,239 | € 1,456,392 | € 1,330,645 | € 1,365,191 | ▲ 3% |
| Total debts | € 3,844,365 | € 5,766,496 | € 5,215,003 | € 5,893,008 | ▲ 13% |
| Cash | € 1,921,654 | € 714,778 | € 723,584 | € 1,424,278 | ▲ 97% |
| Retained profit | € 1,186,239 | € 1,136,392 | € 1,010,645 | € 1,045,191 | ▲ 3% |
| Dividend | € 120,320 | € 0 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Bank debt | € 602,198 | € 617,564 | € 638,220 | € 414,225 | ▼ 35% |
| Balance sheet total | € 5,384,951 | € 7,257,235 | € 6,545,648 | € 7,258,199 | ▲ 11% |
| Employees (FTE) | 25.3 | 23.7 | 22.3 | 19.4 | ▼ 2.9 |
Key figures of ALTERNATIV WORKSPACE SOLUTIONS, fiscal years 2022 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 ALTERNATIV WORKSPACE SOLUTIONS?
What happened at ALTERNATIV WORKSPACE SOLUTIONS in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- ADAPTIS SRL stepped down as director. NBB
- Nathalie SCHOONJANS stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 34,546. Source: NBB ↗
- ADAPTIS SRL became a director. NBB
- Daniel CATOUL became a director. NBB
- Nathalie SCHOONJANS became a director. NBB
- ELEMENT BVBA became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Elsene. KBO
In short
From € 407,732 profit in 2022 to € 34,546 profit in 2025.
Paid € 146,302 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 407,732 profit.
Paid out € 120,320 in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
The stake of ALTERNA, ELEMENT comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
ALTERNATIV WORKSPACE SOLUTIONSBehind ALTERNATIV WORKSPACE SOLUTIONS are ELEMENT BVBA and Daniel CATOUL. The shares are held by ALTERNA (39%) and ELEMENT (5%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Chairman of the board · represented by Philippe,Jean D'ARCHAMBEAU
Also active at: ALTERNA, WORKING TOMORROW
since 1999
Daniel CATOUL
Director
Also active at: Laboratoires Belges Pharmacobel, Etablissements Medi-Labo, C.D. & ASSOCIES, Leo Keller en Zonen, Laboratoires Sterop, T.DIFFUSION, Sterop Overseas, S.A. Laboratoires Pharmaceutiques Trenker +7 more
since 2021
Managing director · represented by Alexis d'ARCHAMBEAU
since 2025 · until 2030
Nathalie SCHOONJANS
Director
since 2021 · until 2027
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Zomerstraat 15
1050 Elsene
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
- 0423.408.859
- VAT number
- BE 0423.408.859
- Registered office
- Zomerstraat 15, 1050 Elsene
- Names & denominations
- ALTERNATIV WORKSPACE SOLUTIONS · alternativ et/ou A.W.S
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 9 November 1982
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 16 Dec 2025
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