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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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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2024 and 2025.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 3.4 to 2.4.
Financials
Financial year 2025
CONTRAST from Antwerpen, company number BE0424658971, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -2,306 after tax. For that financial year CONTRAST recorded a gross margin of € 192,669 and equity of € 212,738. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -5,957 to € -2,306. The company made a loss. The company holds a healthy buffer. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on January 31, 2026.
€ 212,738
▼ 1% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -2,306
▲ 61 % less loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 55,508
▲ € 51,759 vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -134,313.
People and assets in 2025
2.4
▼ 0.3 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 168,987
▲ 4% vs 2024
€ 70,400 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.
€ 12,589
▼ 38% vs 2024
Of which on lease € 11,420.
Debts at end 2025
€ 88,570
▼ 34% vs 2024
€ 42,240 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 2 years.
€ 111,800
▲ 3% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 61,326
▲ 40% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 241,770 | € 206,151 | € 196,659 | € 192,669 | ▼ 2% |
| Profit after taxes | € -2,462 | € -107 | € -5,957 | € -2,306 | ▲ € 3,652 |
| Equity | € 221,107 | € 221,001 | € 215,043 | € 212,738 | ▼ 1% |
| Total debts | € 731,473 | € 858,528 | € 542,321 | € 498,893 | ▼ 8% |
| Cash | € 23,528 | € 24,118 | € 3,749 | € 55,508 | ▲ € 51,759 |
| Retained profit | € -125,944 | € -126,050 | € -132,007 | € -134,313 | ▼ € 2,306 |
| Bank debt | € 261,883 | € 340,294 | € 134,805 | € 88,570 | ▼ 34% |
| Balance sheet total | € 952,580 | € 1,079,529 | € 757,364 | € 711,631 | ▼ 6% |
| Employees (FTE) | 4.1 | 3.4 | 2.7 | 2.4 | ▼ 0.3 |
Key figures of CONTRAST, 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 CONTRAST?
What happened at CONTRAST in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 2,306. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Antwerpen. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 2,462 loss in 2022 to € 2,306 loss in 2025.
Paid € 12,665 in corporate taxes since 2022.
On average € 80,300 of value added per employee in 2025.
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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 TAISHO comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
CONTRASTBehind CONTRAST is 3.13 BV. The shares are held by TAISHO (95%).
Establishments
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Physical locations of this company
Scheldestraat 13
2000 Antwerpen
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A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 5 companies are registered at this address.
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- Company number
- 0424.658.971
- VAT number
- BE 0424.658.971
- Registered office
- Scheldestraat 13, 2000 Antwerpen
- Names & denominations
- CONTRAST
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 14 September 1983
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 27 Mar 2026
- Contact
- contrast.be
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