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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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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 19 to 13.3.
Financials
Financial year 2024
Ketchum from Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, company number BE0441615660, closed financial year 2024 with a result of € 10,245 after tax. For that financial year Ketchum recorded a gross margin of € 1.3 million and equity of € 3 million. Compared with financial year 2023, the result moved from € -87,609 to € 10,245. Profitable, and profit is growing. 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 September 24, 2025.
€ 3 million
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 10,245
▲ still € 87,609 loss in 2023
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 2.3 million
▼ 61% vs 2023
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Stays in the company
No dividend for 2024. Retained profit grew to € 487,177.
People and assets in 2024
13.3
▼ 4.3 vs 2023
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.2 million
▼ 12% vs 2023
€ 92,000 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.
€ 33,381
▼ 18% vs 2023
Of which on lease € 29,937.
Debts at end 2024
€ 32,648
▼ 99% vs 2023
€ 14,686 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 2 years.
€ 412,685
▼ 40% vs 2023
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 107,734
▼ 33% vs 2023
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Change 2023 → 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 1,738,040 | € 1,655,132 | € 1,391,715 | € 1,269,492 | ▼ 9% |
| Profit after taxes | € 547,919 | € 121,903 | € -87,609 | € 10,245 | ▲ € 97,854 |
| Equity | € 2,942,638 | € 3,064,542 | € 2,976,932 | € 2,987,177 | |
| Total debts | € 4,967,186 | € 5,459,065 | € 4,333,765 | € 717,920 | ▼ 83% |
| Cash | € 5,631,858 | € 6,173,682 | € 5,829,109 | € 2,300,026 | ▼ 61% |
| Retained profit | € 442,638 | € 564,542 | € 476,932 | € 487,177 | ▲ 2% |
| Bank debt | € 2,988,502 | € 3,022,006 | € 3,140,925 | € 32,648 | ▼ 99% |
| Balance sheet total | € 7,909,824 | € 8,523,607 | € 7,310,697 | € 3,705,098 | ▼ 49% |
| Employees (FTE) | 20 | 19 | 17.6 | 13.3 | ▼ 4.3 |
Key figures of Ketchum, fiscal years 2021 to 2024, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.The annual account for fiscal year 2025 has not been filed yet; it was expected before 31 July 2026.
What happened to Ketchum?
What happened at Ketchum in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Oliver WELZ stepped down as director. NBB
- PRAIZE BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Jo-ann ROBERTSON stepped down as director. NBB
- John BETTS stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2024: profit of € 10,245. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- David SCOTT stepped down as director. NBB
- Mark HUME stepped down as director. NBB
- David SCOTT became a director. NBB
In short
From € 547,919 profit in 2021 to € 10,245 profit in 2024.
Paid € 16,887 in corporate taxes since 2021.
Best year ever: 2021, with € 547,919 profit.
On average € 95,500 of value added per employee in 2024.
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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
Directors
According to the 2024 annual accounts
John BETTS
Director
since 2020 · until 2026
Mark HUME
Director
since 2021 · until 2024
David SCOTT
Director
since 2022 · until 2024
Oliver WELZ
Director
since 2022 · until 2028
Director · represented by Jeroen FERMIE
since 2022 · until 2028
Jo-ann ROBERTSON
Director
since 2022 · until 2028
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.
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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
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