Financials
Financial year 2025
OBSERVATORIUM from Elsene, company number BE0471981214, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 16.9 million after tax. For that financial year OBSERVATORIUM recorded revenue of € 1.1 million and equity of € 39.1 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 952,118 to € 16.9 million. 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 August 4, 2026.
€ 39.1 million
▲ 75% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 16.9 million
▲ € 15.9 million vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 23.2 million
▲ € 23 million vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 125,000 paid out
1 % of the profit went to the shareholders, the rest stayed in the company.
People and assets in 2025
3.6
▲ 0.4 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 295,119
▲ 13% vs 2024
€ 82,000 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.
€ 131,109
▲ € 108,066 vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 13,712
▼ 57% vs 2024
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 661,760
▲ 11% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 377 days on average.
€ 98,328
▲ 139% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 1,952,424 | € 1,923,413 | € 1,413,801 | € 1,108,831 | ▼ 22% |
| Profit after taxes | € 7,089,758 | € 8,388,954 | € 952,118 | € 16,861,767 | ▲ € 15.9 million |
| Equity | € 23,041,875 | € 28,918,572 | € 22,360,334 | € 39,083,945 | ▲ 75% |
| Total debts | € 7,830,455 | € 5,334,977 | € 13,147,108 | € 7,892,274 | ▼ 40% |
| Cash | € 1,484,431 | € 229,369 | € 145,399 | € 23,188,138 | ▲ € 23 million |
| Land & buildings | € 1,744,560 | € 1,611,816 | € 1,479,071 | € 1,346,327 | ▼ 9% |
| Retained profit | € 22,643,849 | € 28,520,546 | € 21,962,308 | € 38,685,920 | ▲ 76% |
| Dividend | € 2,150,000 | € 2,500,000 | € 7,500,000 | € 125,000 | ▼ 98% |
| Bank debt | € 627,098 | € 50,384 | € 32,048 | € 13,712 | ▼ 57% |
| Balance sheet total | € 31,000,231 | € 34,375,879 | € 35,507,441 | € 46,976,220 | ▲ 32% |
| Employees (FTE) | 4.8 | 4.7 | 3.2 | 3.6 | ▲ 0.4 |
Key figures of OBSERVATORIUM, 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 OBSERVATORIUM?
What happened at OBSERVATORIUM in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 16.9 million (▲ € 15.9 million vs 2024). filed late Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Elsene. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 7.1 million profit in 2022 to € 16.9 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 577,681 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 16.9 million profit.
Paid out € 12.3 million in dividends to the owners in total.
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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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NMBS 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left ▼ 80%
bpost 18 May 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left from loss to profit
Management
Behind OBSERVATORIUM are ARTS OFFICE BV and François-Xavier Hufkens. It owns 100% of GROUPE M, 100% of IMMO 583 and 100% of Xavier Hufkens itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Devolder Simon Joan
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Sint-Jorisstraat 6-8
1050 Elsene
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0471.981.214
- VAT number
- BE 0471.981.214
- Registered office
- Sint-Jorisstraat 6-8, 1050 Elsene
- Names & denominations
- OBSERVATORIUM
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 26 May 2000
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