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Figures corrected NBB
Corrected annual account filed for 2023.
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Busy address KBO
53 other companies have their registered office at the same address; threshold 10.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Creafin from Lier, company number BE0455731338, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 507,459 after tax. For that financial year Creafin recorded revenue of € 12.5 million and equity of € 6.5 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 301,678 to € 507,459. Profitable, and profit is growing. The buffer is growing. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on September 29, 2026.
€ 6.5 million
▲ 119% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 507,459
▲ 68% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 5 million
▲ 130% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 27,085 paid out
5 % of the profit went to the shareholders, the rest stayed in the company.
People and assets in 2025
17
▲ 2.4 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 3 million
▲ 98% vs 2024
€ 173,800 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.
€ 106,362
▲ 260% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 20 million
▲ € 18.5 million vs 2024
€ 133,324 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 150 years.
€ 1.3 million
▲ 94% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 55 days on average.
€ 396,868
▲ 96% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Revenue | - | - | - | € 12,491,580 | |
| Gross margin | € 1,951,283 | € 2,425,123 | € 2,420,841 | - | |
| Profit after taxes | € 753,744 | € 665,356 | € 301,678 | € 507,459 | ▲ 68% |
| Equity | € 13,266,392 | € 2,750,000 | € 2,985,619 | € 6,545,902 | ▲ 119% |
| Total debts | € 3,264,797 | € 4,263,552 | € 4,151,131 | € 28,609,938 | ▲ € 24.5 million |
| Cash | € 1,610,333 | € 2,165,360 | € 2,148,711 | € 4,952,290 | ▲ 130% |
| Retained profit | € 525,911 | € 250,000 | € 485,619 | € 853,402 | ▲ 76% |
| Dividend | € 617,239 | € 862,539 | € 19,276 | € 27,085 | ▲ 41% |
| Bank debt | € 1,479,158 | € 1,359,535 | € 1,504,120 | € 20,017,605 | ▲ € 18.5 million |
| Balance sheet total | € 16,562,988 | € 7,036,366 | € 7,159,564 | € 35,155,840 | ▲ € 28 million |
| Employees (FTE) | 15.1 | 14.6 | 14.6 | 17 | ▲ 2.4 |
Key figures of Creafin, 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 Creafin?
What happened at Creafin in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Jo Janssens stepped down as director. NBB
- Maryline Serafin stepped down as director. NBB
- Herman Bruyland stepped down as director. NBB
- Rudy Broeckaert stepped down as director. NBB
- Jacobus Marcel Berkhout stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 507,459 (▲ 68% vs 2024). filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Maryline Serafin became a director. NBB
- Jacobus Marcel Berkhout became a director. NBB
In short
From € 753,744 profit in 2022 to € 507,459 profit in 2025.
Paid € 634,546 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 753,744 profit.
On average € 165,800 of value added per employee in 2024.
Management
The stake of Alembic Capital comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
CreafinThe shares are held by Alembic Capital (35.2%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Jo Janssens
Managing director
since 2025 · until 2032
Rudy Broeckaert
Director
since 2022 · until 2028
Maryline Serafin
Director
since 2025 · until 2032
Jacobus Marcel Berkhout
Managing director
since 2025 · until 2027
Herman Bruyland
Director
since 2025 · until 2032
Shareholders
35.2%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Duwijckstraat 17
2500 Lier
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A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 53 companies are registered at this address.
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- Company number
- 0455.731.338
- VAT number
- BE 0455.731.338
- Registered office
- Duwijckstraat 17, 2500 Lier
- Names & denominations
- Creafin
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 27 July 1995
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 27 Mar 2026
- Contact
- creafin.be
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