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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 59 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
COLOMBUS - HTC from Antwerpen, company number BE0475329989, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -228,155 after tax. For that financial year COLOMBUS - HTC recorded a gross margin of € 1.8 million and equity of € 2.8 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 742,333 to € -228,155. The company made a loss. The company holds a healthy buffer. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on April 7, 2026.
€ 2.8 million
▼ 8% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -228,155
▼ still € 742,333 profit in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 268,409
▲ 152% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 165,357.
People and assets in 2025
29.3
▼ 0.7 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.6 million
▼ 4% vs 2024
€ 54,300 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.
€ 78,426
▼ 18% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 3.6 million
▼ 9% vs 2024
€ 749,466 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 3 years.
€ 2.3 million
▲ 28% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 182,653
▼ 25% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 2,440,957 | € 2,912,719 | € 2,796,136 | € 1,782,348 | ▼ 36% |
| Profit after taxes | € 746,728 | € 786,581 | € 742,333 | € -228,155 | ▼ € 970,488 |
| Equity | € 2,897,597 | € 2,984,179 | € 3,026,512 | € 2,798,357 | ▼ 8% |
| Total debts | € 7,410,592 | € 8,228,145 | € 7,215,254 | € 7,953,390 | ▲ 10% |
| Cash | € 504,956 | € 295,125 | € 106,529 | € 268,409 | ▲ 152% |
| Retained profit | € 264,597 | € 351,179 | € 393,512 | € 165,357 | ▼ 58% |
| Dividend | € 700,000 | € 700,000 | € 700,000 | € 0 | ▼ 100% |
| Bank debt | € 4,219,806 | € 4,571,235 | € 3,928,485 | € 3,569,557 | ▼ 9% |
| Balance sheet total | € 10,308,190 | € 11,212,324 | € 10,391,765 | € 10,901,747 | ▲ 5% |
| Employees (FTE) | 24.7 | 27.4 | 30 | 29.3 | ▼ 0.7 |
Key figures of COLOMBUS - HTC, fiscal years 2022 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2026) expected before 30 April 2027.
What happened to COLOMBUS - HTC?
What happened at COLOMBUS - HTC in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Ceti NV stepped down as director. NBB
- Martens MTD Antwerpen BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Jerome BVBA stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 228,155 (▼ € 970,488 vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Ceti NV became a director. NBB
- Martens MTD Antwerpen BV became a director. NBB
- Jerome BVBA became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Antwerpen. KBO
In short
From € 746,728 profit in 2022 to € 228,155 loss in 2025.
Paid € 224,822 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 786,581 profit.
On average € 60,800 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of Cleaning and Environmental Technology invest comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
COLOMBUS - HTCThe shares are held by Cleaning and Environmental Technology invest (100%). It owns 100% of HTCTC NV and 100% of HTC Wallonie SA itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
since 2022 · until 2028
Managing director
Also active at: HTC SENEFFE, MILIEUTECHNIEKEN EN -DIENSTVERLENING, HTCTC, HTC WALLONIE, ECLA, Afvalstoffen Verwerking Milmort, ECLA INVEST, Sustainable Tank Degassing +3 more
since 2023 · until 2029
Managing director
Also active at: HTC SENEFFE, MILIEUTECHNIEKEN EN -DIENSTVERLENING, HTCTC, HTC WALLONIE, ECLA, Afvalstoffen Verwerking Milmort, ECLA INVEST, Sustainable Tank Degassing +1 more
since 2023 · until 2029
Shareholders
Participations
100%
100%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Schelde Z/N
2030 Antwerpen
Industriedok 375
2030 Antwerpen
Active since 1 January 2002
Kastelweg 8
2030 Antwerpen
Active since 2 January 2020
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 1 companies are registered at this address.
All companies at this address →What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0475.329.989
- VAT number
- BE 0475.329.989
- Registered office
- Schelde Z/N, 2030 Antwerpen
- Names & denominations
- COLOMBUS - HTC
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 17 July 2001
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 3 Sept 2025
- Activities · NACE
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