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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 7 to 6.1.
Financials
Financial year 2025
BIOPOLE ULB - CHARLEROI en abrégé BUC from Charleroi, company number BE0480172170, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -24,249 after tax. For that financial year BIOPOLE ULB - CHARLEROI en abrégé BUC recorded a gross margin of € 1.3 million and equity of € 4.2 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 142,010 to € -24,249. The company made a loss. 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 June 29, 2026.
€ 4.2 million
▲ 19% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -24,249
▼ still € 142,010 profit in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 492,237
▼ 23% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -354,701.
People and assets in 2025
6.1
▼ 0.5 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 375,059
▲ 5% vs 2024
€ 61,500 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.
€ 365,642
▼ 6% vs 2024
Of which on lease € 348,806.
Debts at end 2025
€ 4.2 million
▼ 27% vs 2024
€ 936,290 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 5 years.
€ 621,135
▲ 22% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 91,084
▲ 11% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 1,394,593 | € 1,556,628 | € 1,398,347 | € 1,302,397 | ▼ 7% |
| Profit after taxes | € 164,529 | € 286,958 | € 142,010 | € -24,249 | ▼ € 166,259 |
| Equity | € 3,114,830 | € 3,401,788 | € 3,543,798 | € 4,224,549 | ▲ 19% |
| Total debts | € 7,511,633 | € 7,061,901 | € 6,907,015 | € 5,427,998 | ▼ 21% |
| Cash | € 765,485 | € 303,304 | € 638,943 | € 492,237 | ▼ 23% |
| Land & buildings | € 7,730,674 | € 7,234,428 | € 6,738,193 | € 6,245,250 | ▼ 7% |
| Retained profit | € -759,420 | € -472,462 | € -330,452 | € -354,701 | ▼ € 24,249 |
| Bank debt | € 6,647,989 | € 6,092,595 | € 5,841,559 | € 4,236,426 | ▼ 27% |
| Balance sheet total | € 10,626,463 | € 10,463,689 | € 10,450,813 | € 9,652,548 | ▼ 8% |
| Employees (FTE) | 7.5 | 7 | 6.6 | 6.1 | ▼ 0.5 |
Key figures of BIOPOLE ULB - CHARLEROI en abrégé BUC, 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 BIOPOLE ULB - CHARLEROI en abrégé BUC?
What happened at BIOPOLE ULB - CHARLEROI en abrégé BUC in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Michel Coulon stepped down as director. NBB
- Isabelle MAZZARA stepped down as director. NBB
- Anne-Marie SCHAUS stepped down as director. NBB
- Anne DELVAUX stepped down as director. NBB
- Daniele CARATI stepped down as director. NBB
- Françoise MAGERMAN stepped down as director. NBB
- Emery KAREGE stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 24,249 (▼ € 166,259 vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
In short
From € 164,529 profit in 2022 to € 24,249 loss in 2025.
Paid € 7,239 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 286,958 profit.
On average € 213,500 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Michel Coulon
Director
Also active at: Palais des Beaux Arts de Charleroi, Brussels South Charleroi BioPark Dev, Centre universitaire Zénobe Gramme
since 2025 · until 2031
Anne DELVAUX
Managing director
since 2021 · until 2027
Isabelle MAZZARA
Chairman of the board
Also active at: PARTENA - SECRETARIAT SOCIAL D'EMPLOYEURS - PARTENA - SOCIAAL SECRETARIAAT VOOR werkgevers, F9 Languages in Brussels, C. L. U. INVEST, PARTENA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS
since 2025 · until 2031
Daniele CARATI
Director
since 2021 · until 2027
since 2021 · until 2027
Anne-Marie SCHAUS
Director
since 2021 · until 2027
Emery KAREGE
Director
since 2021 · until 2027
since 2021 · until 2025
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Rue Adrienne Bolland 8
6041 Charleroi
Avenue Georges Lemaitre 19
6041 Charleroi
Active since 24 March 2009
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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Details
- Company number
- 0480.172.170
- VAT number
- BE 0480.172.170
- Registered office
- Rue Adrienne Bolland 8, 6041 Charleroi
- Names & denominations
- BIOPOLE ULB - CHARLEROI en abrégé BUC
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 8 May 2003
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- Active · Active since 1 Jan 2001
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