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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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Annual account missing NBB
Fiscal year 2024 was expected before 30 November 2024 and has not been filed.
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Busy address KBO
64 other companies have their registered office at the same address; threshold 10.
Financials
Financial year 2023
Sponge Belgium from Machelen (Brab.), company number BE0456754093, closed financial year 2023 with a result of € 9,714 after tax. For that financial year Sponge Belgium recorded a gross margin of € 323,735 and equity of € 303,672. Compared with financial year 2022, the result moved from € -2.3 million to € 9,714. 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 December 6, 2023.
€ 303,672
▲ 3% vs 2022
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 9,714
▲ still € 2.3 million loss in 2022
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 405,480
▲ 191% vs 2022
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Stays in the company
No dividend for 2023. Retained profit grew to € 241,699.
People and assets in 2023
2.3
▼ 0.5 vs 2022
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 303,561
▼ 67% vs 2022
€ 132,000 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.
Debts at end 2023
None
No bank loans on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 51,104
▲ 192% vs 2022
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 5,356
▼ 88% vs 2022
Corporate tax and VAT still to pay. No wage debt: nothing outstanding to staff or social security.
| 2022 | 2023 | Change 2022 → 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 1,216,447 | € 323,735 | ▼ 73% |
| Profit after taxes | € -2,317,287 | € 9,714 | ▲ € 2.3 million |
| Equity | € 293,959 | € 303,672 | ▲ 3% |
| Total debts | € 497,571 | € 866,188 | ▲ 74% |
| Cash | € 139,218 | € 405,480 | ▲ 191% |
| Retained profit | € 231,985 | € 241,699 | ▲ 4% |
| Balance sheet total | € 791,530 | € 1,169,860 | ▲ 48% |
| Employees (FTE) | 2.8 | 2.3 | ▼ 0.5 |
Key figures of Sponge Belgium, fiscal years 2022 to 2023, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.The annual account for fiscal year 2024 has not been filed yet; it was expected before 30 November 2024.
What happened to Sponge Belgium?
What happened at Sponge Belgium in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Timothy Lyons stepped down as director. NBB
- Adam Poulter stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2023: profit of € 9,714. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Timothy Lyons became a director. NBB
- Adam Poulter became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Machelen (Brab.). KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 2.3 million loss in 2022 to € 9,714 profit in 2023.
Paid € 34,034 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 9,714 profit.
On average € 140,800 of value added per employee in 2023.
Management
The shares are held by Elmore Topco Limited (100%).
Directors
According to the 2023 annual accounts
Adam Poulter
Director
since 2021 · until 2026
Timothy Lyons
Director
since 2022 · until 2026
Shareholders
Elmore Topco Limited
100%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
De Kleetlaan 5 box BC
1831 Machelen (Brab.)
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A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 64 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0456.754.093
- VAT number
- BE 0456.754.093
- Registered office
- De Kleetlaan 5 bus BC, 1831 Machelen (Brab.)
- Names & denominations
- Sponge Belgium
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 5 December 1995
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