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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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Board fully replaced NBB
No director from three years ago is still active according to annual account 2025.
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Busy address KBO
24 other companies have their registered office at the same address; threshold 10.
Financials
Financial year 2025
CARTOONBASE from Elsene, company number BE0461125924, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 133,728 after tax. For that financial year CARTOONBASE recorded a gross margin of € 1.9 million and equity of € 1.1 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -106,944 to € 133,728. 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 October 27, 2026.
€ 1.1 million
▲ 231% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 133,728
▲ still € 106,944 loss in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 47,890
▼ 79% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Stays in the company
No dividend for 2025. Retained profit grew to € 223,080.
People and assets in 2025
22.6
▼ 1.8 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.6 million
▲ 12% vs 2024
€ 69,600 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.
€ 22,481
▼ 44% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 600,000
▼ 48% vs 2024
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 476,622
▲ 47% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 224,773
▲ 37% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 1,018,101 | € 1,510,887 | € 1,405,911 | € 1,878,427 | ▲ 34% |
| Profit after taxes | € -315,577 | € 27,818 | € -106,944 | € 133,728 | ▲ € 240,672 |
| Equity | € 423,808 | € 451,626 | € 344,682 | € 1,142,317 | ▲ 231% |
| Total debts | € 1,387,165 | € 1,750,233 | € 1,774,220 | € 1,307,796 | ▼ 26% |
| Cash | € 151,239 | € 496,065 | € 229,227 | € 47,890 | ▼ 79% |
| Retained profit | € 168,478 | € 196,296 | € 89,352 | € 223,080 | ▲ 150% |
| Bank debt | € 310,533 | € 1,156,000 | € 1,156,000 | € 600,000 | ▼ 48% |
| Balance sheet total | € 1,810,974 | € 2,201,859 | € 2,118,902 | € 2,522,113 | ▲ 19% |
| Employees (FTE) | 24.6 | 23.5 | 24.4 | 22.6 | ▼ 1.8 |
Key figures of CARTOONBASE, 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 CARTOONBASE?
What happened at CARTOONBASE in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Martin SAIVE stepped down as director. NBB
- M&A DUCHATEAU SRL stepped down as director. NBB
- Thomas DOUTREPONT stepped down as director. NBB
- Pierre-Michel CATTOIR stepped down as director. NBB
- Luc DE BRABANDERE stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 133,728. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Antoine GOUREVITCH became a director. NBB
- Pierre-Michel CATTOIR became a director. NBB
In short
From € 315,577 loss in 2022 to € 133,728 profit in 2025.
Paid € 14,583 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 133,728 profit.
On average € 83,100 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of QANIK, MARTIN SAIVE comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
CARTOONBASEBehind CARTOONBASE is Antoine GOUREVITCH. The shares are held by QANIK (3%) and MARTIN SAIVE (3%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Antoine GOUREVITCH
Director
since 2025
since 2021 · until 2027
Director · represented by Antoine DUCHATEAU
Also active at: EMAsphere, URBANTZ, WLF Partners
since 2021 · until 2027
Thomas DOUTREPONT
Managing director
since 2021 · until 2027
Pierre-Michel CATTOIR
Director
since 2022 · until 2027
Shareholders
3%
3%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Maliestraat 13-15
1050 Elsene
Maliestraat 13
1050 Elsene
Active since 17 April 2001
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 24 companies are registered at this address.
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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
Google Workspace
Hosting
OVH, FR
DNS
OVH DNS
Domain
Domain
cartoonbase.com
Registered
1999-04-27
Registrar
OVH, SAS
Expires
2026-04-27
Website info
Features
Security
Network
Details
- Company number
- 0461.125.924
- VAT number
- BE 0461.125.924
- Registered office
- Maliestraat 13-15, 1050 Elsene
- Names & denominations
- CARTOONBASE
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 11 July 1997
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 20 Nov 2020
- Contact
- cartoonbase.com
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