Financials
Financial year 2026
ART & CRAFT MEDIA from Gent, company number BE0454159839, closed financial year 2026 with a result of € -145,190 after tax. For that financial year ART & CRAFT MEDIA recorded revenue of € 52.5 million and equity of € 1.6 million. Compared with financial year 2025, the result moved from € 118,175 to € -145,190. 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 October 19, 2026.
€ 1.6 million
▼ 8% vs 2025
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -145,190
▼ still € 118,175 profit in 2025
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 2.2 million
▲ € 2.1 million vs 2025
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 1.3 million.
People and assets in 2026
21.4
▼ 0.3 vs 2025
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.2 million
▲ 1% vs 2025
€ 56,300 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.
€ 114,199
▼ 12% vs 2025
Of which on lease € 107,932.
Debts at end 2026
€ 3.1 million
▲ 255% vs 2025
€ 45,961 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 2 years.
€ 2.2 million
▲ 59% vs 2025
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 16 days on average.
€ 2 million
▲ 7% vs 2025
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | Change 2025 → 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 54,864,490 | € 52,124,029 | € 54,203,141 | € 52,482,050 | ▼ 3% |
| Profit after taxes | € 64,943 | € 1,267,426 | € 118,175 | € -145,190 | ▼ € 263,365 |
| Equity | € 1,540,440 | € 1,657,866 | € 1,776,041 | € 1,630,851 | ▼ 8% |
| Total debts | € 5,788,805 | € 5,168,242 | € 4,109,880 | € 7,285,001 | ▲ 77% |
| Cash | € 580,307 | € 866,503 | € 113,790 | € 2,202,574 | ▲ € 2.1 million |
| Retained profit | € 1,245,359 | € 1,362,784 | € 1,480,959 | € 1,335,770 | ▼ 10% |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 1,150,000 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Bank debt | € 1,200,792 | € 1,723,295 | € 874,711 | € 3,106,645 | ▲ 255% |
| Balance sheet total | € 7,329,246 | € 6,826,108 | € 5,885,921 | € 8,915,852 | ▲ 51% |
| Employees (FTE) | 23.4 | 23.4 | 21.7 | 21.4 | ▼ 0.3 |
Key figures of ART & CRAFT MEDIA, fiscal years 2023 to 2026, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2027) expected before 31 October 2027.
What happened to ART & CRAFT MEDIA?
What happened at ART & CRAFT MEDIA in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- KRISTOF FINET CommV stepped down as director. NBB
- SVEN BASTIAENS CommV stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2026: loss of € 145,190 (▼ € 263,365 vs 2025). Source: NBB ↗
- KRISTOF FINET CommV became a director. NBB
- SVEN BASTIAENS CommV became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Gent. KBO
- New establishment in Gent. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 64,943 profit in 2023 to € 145,190 loss in 2026.
Paid € 138,319 in corporate taxes since 2023.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 1.3 million profit.
Paid out € 1.2 million in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
The stake of B & D HOLDING comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
ART & CRAFT MEDIAThe shares are held by B & D HOLDING (100%).
Directors
According to the 2026 annual accounts
Director · represented by Kristof FINET
Also active at: B & D HOLDING, ART & CRAFT INVEST
since 2023 · until 2029
Director · represented by Sven BASTIAENS
Also active at: B & D HOLDING, ART & CRAFT INVEST
since 2023 · until 2029
Shareholders
100%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Kortrijksesteenweg 1056
9051 Gent
Brugsesteenweg 466
9030 Gent
Active since 9 February 1995
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 3 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0454.159.839
- VAT number
- BE 0454.159.839
- Registered office
- Kortrijksesteenweg 1056, 9051 Gent
- Names & denominations
- ART & CRAFT MEDIA
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 23 December 1994
- Peppol
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