Warning lights
Signals from the annual accounts, the CBE and the Official Gazette, each with its threshold and source. No score, no verdict.
-
Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 17.6 to 10.4.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Ketchum from Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, company number BE0441615660, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -1.1 million after tax. For that financial year Ketchum recorded a gross margin of € 14,830 and equity of € 1.9 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 10,245 to € -1.1 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 October 1, 2026.
€ 1.9 million
▼ 38% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -1.1 million
▼ still € 10,245 profit in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -645,949.
People and assets in 2025
10.4
▼ 2.9 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.1 million
▼ 8% vs 2024
€ 108,400 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.
€ 20,849
▼ 38% vs 2024
Of which on lease € 20,849.
Debts at end 2025
€ 23,577
▼ 28% vs 2024
€ 10,202 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 2 years.
€ 481,618
▲ 17% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 129,873
▲ 21% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 1,655,132 | € 1,391,715 | € 1,269,492 | € 14,830 | ▼ 99% |
| Profit after taxes | € 121,903 | € -87,609 | € 10,245 | € -1,133,126 | ▼ € 1.1 million |
| Equity | € 3,064,542 | € 2,976,932 | € 2,987,177 | € 1,854,051 | ▼ 38% |
| Total debts | € 5,459,065 | € 4,333,765 | € 717,920 | € 772,278 | ▲ 8% |
| Cash | € 6,173,682 | € 5,829,109 | € 2,300,026 | - | |
| Retained profit | € 564,542 | € 476,932 | € 487,177 | € -645,949 | ▼ € 1.1 million |
| Bank debt | € 3,022,006 | € 3,140,925 | € 32,648 | € 23,577 | ▼ 28% |
| Balance sheet total | € 8,523,607 | € 7,310,697 | € 3,705,098 | € 2,626,329 | ▼ 29% |
| Employees (FTE) | 19 | 17.6 | 13.3 | 10.4 | ▼ 2.9 |
Key figures of Ketchum, 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 Ketchum?
What happened at Ketchum in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- OAG Belgium NV stepped down as director. NBB
- Kris Govaerts stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 1.1 million (▼ € 1.1 million vs 2024). filed late Source: NBB ↗
- OAG Belgium NV became a director. NBB
- John BETTS stepped down as director. NBB
- Kris Govaerts became a director. NBB
- Oliver WELZ stepped down as director. NBB
- Jo-ann ROBERTSON stepped down as director. NBB
In short
From € 121,903 profit in 2022 to € 1.1 million loss in 2025.
Paid € 8,752 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 121,903 profit.
On average € 1,400 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The shares are held by DAS Europe Ltd. (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Marc van Diepen
Also active at: Batten, Barton, Durstine en Osborn Belgium, DDB, T.B.W.A., BBDO, ENGAGE BBDO, Proximity BBDO, MARKETING en ENTERTAINMENT, DE VLOER +2 more
since 2025 · until 2028
John BETTS
Director
since 2020 · until 2025
Kris Govaerts
Director
Also active at: Batten, Barton, Durstine en Osborn Belgium, DDB, T.B.W.A., DARWIN BBDO, BBDO, ENGAGE BBDO, E-GRAPHICS, Proximity BBDO +1 more
since 2025 · until 2028
Oliver WELZ
Director
since 2022 · until 2025
Director · represented by Jeroen FERMIE
since 2022 · until 2025
Jo-ann ROBERTSON
Director
since 2022 · until 2025
Shareholders
DAS Europe Ltd.
100%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Scheldestraat 122
1080 Sint-Jans-Molenbeek
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 2 companies are registered at this address.
All companies at this address →What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Website
Technologies
Hosting & Email
Email provider
Microsoft 365
Hosting
CLOUDFLARESPECTRUM Cloudflare, Inc., US
Domain
Domain
ketchum.com
Registered
1994-07-30
Registrar
CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.
Expires
2026-07-29
Website info
Features
Security
Network
Details
- Company number
- 0441.615.660
- VAT number
- BE 0441.615.660
- Registered office
- Scheldestraat 122, 1080 Sint-Jans-Molenbeek
- Names & denominations
- Ketchum
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 11 October 1990
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 16 Mar 2026
- Contact
- ketchum.com
- Activities · NACE
Activiteiten van adviesbureaus op het gebied van public relations en communicatie
Public relationsbureaus
Activiteiten van adviesbureaus op het gebied van bedrijfsvoering en overig managementadvies
Overige adviesbureaus op het gebied van bedrijfsvoering en beheer
Adviesbureaus op het gebied van public relations en communicatie
Overige adviesbureaus op het gebied van bedrijfsbeheer; adviesbureaus op het gebied van bedrijfsvoering