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 2023 and 2024.
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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 37 % of short-term debt in 2024; threshold 65 %.
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Board fully replaced NBB
No director from three years ago is still active according to annual account 2024.
Financials
Financial year 2024
ESSTRAGON from Zaventem, company number BE0477508333, closed financial year 2024 with a result of € -73,233 after tax. For that financial year ESSTRAGON recorded a gross margin of € 443,529 and equity of € 61,085. Compared with financial year 2023, the result moved from € -468 to € -73,233. The company made a loss. The buffer shrank hard: equity is 55 % below last year. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on September 30, 2025.
€ 61,085
▼ 55% vs 2023
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -73,233
▼ 15555 % more loss than in 2023
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 23,489
▼ 51% vs 2023
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 48,685.
People and assets in 2024
8.4
▼ 0.6 vs 2023
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 450,486
▲ 1% vs 2023
€ 53,600 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.
€ 137,594
▲ 107% vs 2023
Of which on lease € 83,931.
Debts at end 2024
€ 276,358
▲ 57% vs 2023
€ 63,577 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 4 years.
€ 24,453
▼ 45% vs 2023
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 57,212
▲ 49% vs 2023
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Change 2023 → 2024 | |
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| Gross margin | € 124,098 | € 500,490 | € 500,661 | € 443,529 | ▼ 11% |
| Profit after taxes | € 15,100 | € 176,049 | € -468 | € -73,233 | ▼ € 72,765 |
| Equity | € -47,464 | € 134,786 | € 134,318 | € 61,085 | ▼ 55% |
| Total debts | € 307,969 | € 271,161 | € 259,165 | € 361,475 | ▲ 39% |
| Cash | € 26,231 | € 164,477 | € 47,943 | € 23,489 | ▼ 51% |
| Land & buildings | € 181,480 | € 163,322 | € 145,195 | € 127,071 | ▼ 12% |
| Retained profit | € -53,664 | € 122,386 | € 121,918 | € 48,685 | ▼ 60% |
| Bank debt | € 267,020 | € 187,094 | € 176,154 | € 276,358 | ▲ 57% |
| Balance sheet total | € 260,505 | € 405,946 | € 393,483 | € 422,560 | ▲ 7% |
| Employees (FTE) | 8.2 | 7.9 | 9 | 8.4 | ▼ 0.6 |
Key figures of ESSTRAGON, fiscal years 2021 to 2024, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.The annual account for fiscal year 2025 has not been filed yet; it was expected before 31 July 2026.
What happened to ESSTRAGON?
What happened at ESSTRAGON in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2024: loss of € 73,233. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Kara Management became a director. NBB
- Marika HEMME stepped down as director. NBB
- New establishment in Zaventem. KBO
- Marika HEMME became a director. NBB
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 15,100 profit in 2021 to € 73,233 loss in 2024.
Paid € 2,964 in corporate taxes since 2021.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 176,049 profit.
On average € 52,800 of value added per employee in 2024.
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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%
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Management
The stake of KARA MANAGEMENT comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
ESSTRAGONBehind ESSTRAGON are Kara Management and Ursula FENGER. The shares are held by KARA MANAGEMENT (50%).
Directors
According to the 2024 annual accounts
Director · represented by Hasan Kara
since 2024
Ursula FENGER
Director
Marika HEMME
Director
since 2002 · until 2024
Shareholders
50%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Sterrebeekstraat 176C
1930 Zaventem
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 1 companies are registered at this address.
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Website
Technologies
Hosting & Email
Email provider
Self-hosted
Hosting
GODADDY, DE
DNS
GoDaddy DNS
Domain
Domain
esstragon.eu
Registrar
Mesh Digital Limited
Website info
Features
Security
Network
Details
- Company number
- 0477.508.333
- VAT number
- BE 0477.508.333
- Registered office
- Sterrebeekstraat 176C, 1930 Zaventem
- Names & denominations
- ESSTRAGON
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 8 May 2002
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 1 Jan 2001
- Contact
- esstragon.eu
- Activities · NACE
Catering van evenementen
Uitzendkoks en verzorgen van feesten en recepties
Cateringdiensten op contractbasis en overige diensten in verband met maaltijden
Catering
Overige eetgelegenheden