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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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Negative equity NBB
More debt than assets in 4 of the last 4 fiscal years.
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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2025 and 2026.
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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 21 % of short-term debt in 2026; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2026
CANDIDE from Elsene, company number BE0478691931, closed financial year 2026 with a result of € -3,047 after tax. For that financial year CANDIDE recorded a gross margin of € 260,725 and equity of € -53,528. Compared with financial year 2025, the result moved from € -2,397 to € -3,047. The company made a loss. More debts than assets. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on August 21, 2026.
€ -53,528
▼ € 3,047 vs 2025
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -3,047
▼ 27 % more loss than in 2025
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 50,250
▲ 32% vs 2025
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -115,528.
People and assets in 2026
6
▼ 0.3 vs 2025
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 250,512
▼ 1% vs 2025
€ 41,800 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.
Debts at end 2026
None
No bank loans on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 173,856
▼ 31% vs 2025
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 40,930
▲ 49% vs 2025
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | Change 2025 → 2026 | |
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| Gross margin | € 275,625 | € 280,580 | € 265,005 | € 260,725 | ▼ 2% |
| Profit after taxes | € 9,219 | € 7,406 | € -2,397 | € -3,047 | ▼ € 650 |
| Equity | € -55,490 | € -48,084 | € -50,481 | € -53,528 | ▼ € 3,047 |
| Total debts | € 256,857 | € 293,419 | € 342,293 | € 286,838 | ▼ 16% |
| Cash | € 43,243 | € 61,092 | € 38,128 | € 50,250 | ▲ 32% |
| Retained profit | € -117,490 | € -110,084 | € -112,481 | € -115,528 | ▼ € 3,047 |
| Balance sheet total | € 201,367 | € 245,335 | € 291,812 | € 233,311 | ▼ 20% |
| Employees (FTE) | 13.8 | 6.6 | 6.3 | 6 | ▼ 0.3 |
Key figures of CANDIDE, fiscal years 2023 to 2026, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2027) expected before 31 August 2027.
What happened to CANDIDE?
What happened at CANDIDE in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2026: loss of € 3,047. Source: NBB ↗
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
- New establishment in Elsene. KBO
In short
From € 9,219 profit in 2023 to € 3,047 loss in 2026.
Paid € 15,639 in corporate taxes since 2023.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 9,219 profit.
On average € 43,500 of value added per employee in 2026.
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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 CANDIDE is Christophe Maigre de la Motte-Bouloumié.
Directors
According to the 2026 annual accounts
Christophe Maigre de la Motte-Bouloumié
Managing director
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Georges Brugmannplein 1
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
- 0478.691.931
- VAT number
- BE 0478.691.931
- Registered office
- Georges Brugmannplein 1, 1050 Elsene
- Names & denominations
- CANDIDE
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 31 October 2002
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 27 Mar 2026
- Activities · NACE
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