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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 447.3 to 394.2.
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Figures corrected NBB
Corrected annual account filed for 2022, 2025.
Financials
Financial year 2025
RTL BELGIUM from Schaarbeek, company number BE0428201847, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -4.7 million after tax. For that financial year RTL BELGIUM recorded revenue of € 215.3 million and equity of € 121.3 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -3.5 million to € -4.7 million. 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 May 8, 2026.
€ 121.3 million
▼ 7% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -4.7 million
▼ 33 % more loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 8.6 million
▲ € 8.5 million vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 107 million.
People and assets in 2025
394.2
▼ 23.2 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 40.4 million
▼ 4% vs 2024
€ 102,600 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.
€ 901,195
▼ 17% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 1 million
▼ 88% vs 2024
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 42.5 million
▼ 8% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 93 days on average.
€ 10.5 million
▼ 6% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Revenue | € 82,846,572 | € 225,063,613 | € 223,579,007 | € 215,298,624 | ▼ 4% |
| Profit after taxes | € 18,713,489 | € -1,853,808 | € -3,531,872 | € -4,684,514 | ▼ € 1.2 million |
| Equity | € 157,447,198 | € 140,993,815 | € 129,961,942 | € 121,277,429 | ▼ 7% |
| Total debts | € 150,016,022 | € 76,821,331 | € 66,684,763 | € 59,167,904 | ▼ 11% |
| Cash | € 27,245,344 | € 2,277,211 | € 101,426 | € 8,631,139 | ▲ € 8.5 million |
| Land & buildings | - | € 43,229 | € 41,066 | € 38,902 | ▼ 5% |
| Retained profit | € 143,222,209 | € 126,668,825 | € 115,636,953 | € 106,952,439 | ▼ 8% |
| Dividend | € 31,000,000 | € 0 | € 7,500,000 | € 4,000,000 | ▼ 47% |
| Bank debt | € 0 | € 4,579,292 | € 8,533,351 | € 1,000,000 | ▼ 88% |
| Balance sheet total | € 310,240,870 | € 218,214,783 | € 197,117,705 | € 180,880,332 | ▼ 8% |
| Employees (FTE) | 375.3 | 447.3 | 417.4 | 394.2 | ▼ 23.2 |
Key figures of RTL BELGIUM, 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 RTL BELGIUM?
What happened at RTL BELGIUM in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Bernard MARCHANT stepped down as director. NBB
- Erik RODDENHOF stepped down as director. NBB
- Dirk LODEWYCKX stepped down as director. NBB
- Piet VROMAN stepped down as director. NBB
- Alexandre HURBAIN stepped down as director. NBB
- Thierry HUGOT stepped down as director. NBB
- Eric MALRAIN stepped down as director. NBB
- Christian VAN THILLO stepped down as director. NBB
In short
From € 18.7 million profit in 2022 to € 4.7 million loss in 2025.
Paid € 11.2 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 18.7 million profit.
Paid out € 42.5 million in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
The stake of AUDIOPRESSE comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
RTL BELGIUMThe shares are held by AUDIOPRESSE (100%). It owns 10% of EUROPEAN NEWS EXCHANGE itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Bernard MARCHANT
Director
since 2022 · until 2029
Erik RODDENHOF
Director
since 2022 · until 2029
Dirk LODEWYCKX
Director
since 2023 · until 2029
Piet VROMAN
Director
since 2022 · until 2029
Alexandre HURBAIN
Director
since 2023 · until 2029
Thierry HUGOT
Director
since 2022 · until 2029
Eric MALRAIN
Director
since 2023 · until 2029
Christian VAN THILLO
Director
since 2023 · until 2029
Shareholders
100%
Participations
EUROPEAN NEWS EXCHANGE
10%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Jacques Georginlaan 2
1030 Schaarbeek
Rue des Emailleries 4
6041 Charleroi
Active since 18 September 1997
Square des Conduites-d'Eau 7-8
4031 Liège
Active since 23 October 1997
Rue de Coquelet 134
5000 Namur
Active since 18 September 1997
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Details
- Company number
- 0428.201.847
- VAT number
- BE 0428.201.847
- Registered office
- Jacques Georginlaan 2, 1030 Schaarbeek
- Names & denominations
- RTL BELGIUM
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 4 December 1985
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 1 Jan 2001
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