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Annual account missing NBB
Fiscal year 2023 was expected before 31 July 2024 and has not been filed.
Financials
Financial year 2022
NETWORK RESEARCH BELGIUM from Herstal, company number BE0430502430, closed financial year 2022 with a result of € 19.4 million after tax. For that financial year NETWORK RESEARCH BELGIUM recorded revenue of € 328.1 million and equity of € 131.8 million. Compared with financial year 2021, the result moved from € 41.2 million to € 19.4 million. The company is profitable. The buffer is growing. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on May 2, 2023.
€ 131.8 million
▲ 2% vs 2021
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 19.4 million
▼ 53% vs 2021
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 10.4 million
▼ 62% vs 2021
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 16 million paid out
83 % of the profit went to the shareholders, the rest stayed in the company.
People and assets in 2022
847.1
▲ 19.6 vs 2021
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 97.3 million
▲ 13% vs 2021
€ 114,900 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.
€ 722,165
▼ 27% vs 2021
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2022
€ 286,484
▼ 90% vs 2021
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 41.1 million
▲ 4% vs 2021
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 72 days on average.
€ 25.6 million
▼ 2% vs 2021
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2021 | 2022 | Change 2021 → 2022 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 321,926,724 | € 328,073,316 | ▲ 2% |
| Profit after taxes | € 41,221,345 | € 19,370,022 | ▼ 53% |
| Equity | € 128,686,773 | € 131,836,350 | ▲ 2% |
| Total debts | € 101,052,238 | € 93,811,634 | ▼ 7% |
| Cash | € 27,395,020 | € 10,379,722 | ▼ 62% |
| Land & buildings | € 10,705,380 | € 9,404,294 | ▼ 12% |
| Retained profit | € 110,320,722 | € 113,690,744 | ▲ 3% |
| Dividend | € 19,610,000 | € 16,000,000 | ▼ 18% |
| Bank debt | € 2,892,008 | € 286,484 | ▼ 90% |
| Balance sheet total | € 237,718,421 | € 229,862,643 | ▼ 3% |
| Employees (FTE) | 827.5 | 847.1 | ▲ 19.6 |
Key figures of NETWORK RESEARCH BELGIUM, fiscal years 2021 to 2022, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.The annual account for fiscal year 2023 has not been filed yet; it was expected before 31 July 2024.
What happened to NETWORK RESEARCH BELGIUM?
What happened at NETWORK RESEARCH BELGIUM in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- ALAIN PALMANS stepped down as director. NBB
- BRUNO VAN LIERDE stepped down as director. NBB
- CARINE HOUGARDY stepped down as director. NBB
- Renaud WITMEUR stepped down as director. NBB
- HERBERT CARRACILLO stepped down as director. NBB
- EZ FINEANTS SRL stepped down as director. NBB
- Jala SRL stepped down as director. NBB
- SPARAXIS SA stepped down as director. NBB
In short
From € 41.2 million profit in 2021 to € 19.4 million profit in 2022.
Paid € 14.5 million in corporate taxes since 2021.
Best year ever: 2021, with € 41.2 million profit.
Paid out € 35.6 million in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
The stake of NETHYS comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
NETWORK RESEARCH BELGIUMThe shares are held by NETHYS (11.5%). It owns 100% of People & Technology, 100% of Ink Consulting, 100% of Afelio, 100% of Computerland Benelux, 100% of Trigone and 80% of xperthis Group itself.
Directors
According to the 2022 annual accounts
ALAIN PALMANS
Director
since 2022 · until 2028
BRUNO VAN LIERDE
Director
since 2022 · until 2028
since 2022 · until 2028
Renaud WITMEUR
Director
since 2022 · until 2028
since 2022 · until 2028
Director · represented by Koenraad Dom
since 2022 · until 2028
since 2022 · until 2022
Director · represented by Dirk Wauters
since 2022 · until 2028
Director · represented by ERIC BAUCHE
Also active at: C.P. Bourg, A.M.B., Jean Goldschmidt International, Ateliers Pierre Cerfontaine, Floridienne, Fonderies J. Marichal Ketin et Cie, JUNGLING, MEBF +225 more
since 2022 · until 2028
since 2022 · until 2028
PHILIPPE BOURY
Director
since 2022 · until 2028
ANDRE VANDEN CAMP
Director
Also active at: ZORGI, SOCIETE LIEGEOISE DE MICRO - INFORMATIQUE, Computerland Benelux, A. VANDEN CAMP, NeWIN, Centrum voor Informatica, CIVADIS, PHENIX DATA CENTER
since 2017 · until 2022
MYRIAM VAN VARENBERGH
Director
Also active at: Les Amis de la Basilique Nationale du Sacré-Coeur à Koekelberg - De Vrienden van de Nationale Basiliek van het Heilig Hart te Koekelberg, vrij CLB Pieter Breughel
since 2022 · until 2028
Director · represented by Claude Desseille
since 2022 · until 2028
Director · represented by André Vanden Camp
Also active at: ZORGI, SOCIETE LIEGEOISE DE MICRO - INFORMATIQUE, PRODATA SYSTEMS, Computerland Benelux, B-data Company NV, NeWIN, Centrum voor Informatica, CIVADIS +3 more
since 2022 · until 2028
Maryline SERAFIN
Director
since 2022 · until 2028
Shareholders
11.5%
Participations
100%
100%
100%
100%
Trigone
100%
80%
51%
51%
50%
1.6%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Parc Ind. des Hauts Sarts, 2e av 65
4040 Herstal
Rue de la Science SN
4530 Villers-le-Bouillet
Active since 1 September 2016
Interleuvenlaan 10
3001 Leuven
Active since 10 August 2005
Bischoffsheimlaan 15
1000 Brussel
Active since 15 October 2008
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Details
- Company number
- 0430.502.430
- VAT number
- BE 0430.502.430
- Registered office
- Parc Ind. des Hauts Sarts, 2e av 65, 4040 Herstal
- Names & denominations
- NETWORK RESEARCH BELGIUM · N.R.B.
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 15 December 1986
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 1 Jan 2001
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