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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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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 7.7 to 6.4.
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Annual account missing NBB
Fiscal year 2024 was expected before 31 July 2025 and has not been filed.
Financials
Financial year 2023
SOTHEBY'S BELGIUM from Elsene, company number BE0469364291, closed financial year 2023 with a result of € 234,047 after tax. For that financial year SOTHEBY'S BELGIUM recorded a gross margin of € 1.5 million and equity of € 1.6 million. Compared with financial year 2022, the result moved from € 338,302 to € 234,047. The company is profitable. 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 December 20, 2024.
€ 1.6 million
▲ 17% vs 2022
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 234,047
▼ 31% vs 2022
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 144,158
▲ 17% 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 € 1.5 million.
People and assets in 2023
6.4
▼ 0.7 vs 2022
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.1 million
▲ 14% vs 2022
€ 172,100 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.
€ 143
▼ 90% vs 2022
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2023
None
No bank loans on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 246,596
▼ 92% vs 2022
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 571,354
▼ 20% vs 2022
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | Change 2022 → 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 1,858,274 | € 1,477,191 | € 1,507,390 | ▲ 2% |
| Profit after taxes | € 285,886 | € 338,302 | € 234,047 | ▼ 31% |
| Equity | € 1,029,890 | € 1,368,191 | € 1,602,239 | ▲ 17% |
| Total debts | € 2,945,972 | € 3,795,055 | € 817,950 | ▼ 78% |
| Cash | € 1,951,128 | € 123,061 | € 144,158 | ▲ 17% |
| Retained profit | € 957,665 | € 1,295,966 | € 1,530,014 | ▲ 18% |
| Balance sheet total | € 3,975,862 | € 5,163,247 | € 2,420,189 | ▼ 53% |
| Employees (FTE) | 7.7 | 7.1 | 6.4 | ▼ 0.7 |
Key figures of SOTHEBY'S BELGIUM, fiscal years 2021 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 31 July 2025.
What happened to SOTHEBY'S BELGIUM?
What happened at SOTHEBY'S BELGIUM in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2023: profit of € 234,047 (▼ 31% vs 2022). filed late Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Brussel. KBO
- Thorsten EICHHORN became a director. NBB
- Emmanuel VAN DE PUTTE became a director. NBB
- Déborah QUACKELBEEN became a director. NBB
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 285,886 profit in 2021 to € 234,047 profit in 2023.
Paid € 376,093 in corporate taxes since 2021.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 338,302 profit.
On average € 235,500 of value added per employee in 2023.
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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
Behind SOTHEBY'S BELGIUM are Thorsten EICHHORN, Déborah QUACKELBEEN and Emmanuel VAN DE PUTTE.
Directors
According to the 2023 annual accounts
Thorsten EICHHORN
Director
since 2016
Déborah QUACKELBEEN
Personne chargée de la gestion journalière
since 2012
Emmanuel VAN DE PUTTE
Managing director
since 2013
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Louizalaan 251 box 15
1050 Elsene
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Details
- Company number
- 0469.364.291
- VAT number
- BE 0469.364.291
- Registered office
- Louizalaan 251 bus 15, 1050 Elsene
- Names & denominations
- SOTHEBY'S BELGIUM
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 7 January 2000
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