Warning lights
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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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2024 and 2025.
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Busy address KBO
54 other companies have their registered office at the same address; threshold 10.
Financials
Financial year 2025
EDITIONS CASTERMAN from Brussel, company number BE0466745984, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -505,466 after tax. For that financial year EDITIONS CASTERMAN recorded revenue of € 30 million and equity of € 18.6 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -565,914 to € -505,466. The company made a loss. The company holds a healthy buffer. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on July 17, 2026.
€ 18.6 million
▼ 3% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -505,466
▲ 11 % less loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 1,953
▼ 3% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 15.6 million.
People and assets in 2025
33
▲ 0.9 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 3.2 million
▲ 5% vs 2024
€ 97,100 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.
€ 71,963
▼ 12% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
None
No bank loans on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 10.4 million
▼ 1% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 134 days on average.
€ 571,283
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 31,416,139 | € 30,053,628 | € 28,693,038 | € 29,976,902 | ▲ 4% |
| Profit after taxes | € 1,444,641 | € 318,913 | € -565,914 | € -505,466 | ▲ € 60,449 |
| Equity | € 19,333,242 | € 19,652,155 | € 19,086,241 | € 18,580,775 | ▼ 3% |
| Total debts | € 14,641,467 | € 11,490,458 | € 11,231,087 | € 11,306,123 | ▲ 1% |
| Cash | € 5,586 | € 2,321 | € 2,015 | € 1,953 | ▼ 3% |
| Retained profit | € 16,333,242 | € 16,652,155 | € 16,086,241 | € 15,580,775 | ▼ 3% |
| Balance sheet total | € 36,380,127 | € 33,400,361 | € 32,339,833 | € 31,927,597 | ▼ 1% |
| Employees (FTE) | 33.5 | 31.9 | 32.1 | 33 | ▲ 0.9 |
Key figures of EDITIONS CASTERMAN, 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 EDITIONS CASTERMAN?
What happened at EDITIONS CASTERMAN in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Patrice Margotin stepped down as director. NBB
- Charlotte Gallimard stepped down as director. NBB
- Isabelle Gallimard stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 505,466. Source: NBB ↗
- Isabelle Gallimard became a director. NBB
- Patrice Margotin became a director. NBB
- Charlotte Gallimard became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Brussel. KBO
In short
From € 1.4 million profit in 2022 to € 505,466 loss in 2025.
Paid € 1 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 1.4 million profit.
Pays suppliers within 134 days on average.
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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 2025 annual accounts
Isabelle Gallimard
Director
since 2025 · until 2028
Patrice Margotin
Director
since 2024 · until 2030
Charlotte Gallimard
Chairman of the board
since 2024 · until 2030
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Hoogstraat 139
1000 Brussel
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Website
Technologies
Hosting & Email
Email provider
Microsoft 365
Hosting
AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US
Domain
Domain
casterman.com
Registered
1996-07-01
Registrar
SafeBrands SAS
Expires
2026-06-30
Website info
Features
Security
Network
Details
- Company number
- 0466.745.984
- VAT number
- BE 0466.745.984
- Registered office
- Hoogstraat 139, 1000 Brussel
- Names & denominations
- EDITIONS CASTERMAN
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 3 September 1999
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 1 Jan 2001
- Contact
- casterman.com
- Activities · NACE
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