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Annual account missing NBB
Fiscal year 2024 was expected before 30 January 2025 and has not been filed.
Financials
Financial year 2023
Brussels Expo Catering Services from Brussel, company number BE0670726888, closed financial year 2023 with a result of € 202,858 after tax. For that financial year Brussels Expo Catering Services recorded revenue of € 15.5 million and equity of € 1.8 million. Compared with financial year 2022, the result moved from € 378,897 to € 202,858. The company is profitable. 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 February 8, 2024.
€ 1.8 million
▲ 13% vs 2022
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 202,858
▼ 46% vs 2022
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 296,823
▼ 86% vs 2022
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
People and assets in 2023
7.6
▲ 0.5 vs 2022
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 654,290
▲ 13% vs 2022
€ 86,100 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.
€ 5,571
▼ 36% vs 2022
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2023
None
No bank loans on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 1.8 million
▼ 62% vs 2022
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 44 days on average.
€ 146,972
▲ 41% vs 2022
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | Change 2022 → 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 366,391 | € 10,599,855 | € 15,487,565 | ▲ 46% |
| Profit after taxes | € -891,240 | € 378,897 | € 202,858 | ▼ 46% |
| Equity | € -816,257 | € 1,562,639 | € 1,765,498 | ▲ 13% |
| Total debts | € 1,988,920 | € 7,009,863 | € 2,357,184 | ▼ 66% |
| Cash | € 155,318 | € 2,191,141 | € 296,823 | ▼ 86% |
| Retained profit | € -916,257 | € -537,361 | € -334,502 | ▲ € 202,858 |
| Balance sheet total | € 1,222,663 | € 8,622,502 | € 4,172,681 | ▼ 52% |
| Employees (FTE) | 9.5 | 7.1 | 7.6 | ▲ 0.5 |
Key figures of Brussels Expo Catering Services, fiscal years 2021 to 2023, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.The annual account for fiscal year 2024 has not been filed yet; it was expected before 30 January 2025.
What happened to Brussels Expo Catering Services?
What happened at Brussels Expo Catering Services in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Denis Delforge stepped down as director. NBB
- Fire Starter SA stepped down as director. NBB
- André Vanhecke stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2023: profit of € 202,858 (▼ 46% vs 2022). filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Fire Starter SA became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Brussel. KBO
- Denis Delforge became a director. NBB
- André Vanhecke became a director. NBB
In short
From € 891,240 loss in 2021 to € 202,858 profit in 2023.
Paid € 4,820 in corporate taxes since 2021.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 378,897 profit.
Pays suppliers within 44 days on average.
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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
The shares are held by Brussels Expo (99.9%). It owns 1% of Fire Starter itself.
Directors
According to the 2023 annual accounts
Denis Delforge
Managing director
Also active at: BECI-BRUSSELS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, Polyclinique Verhaegen
since 2017 · until 2025
Director · represented by Emin Luka
since 2020 · until 2025
André Vanhecke
Director
since 2017 · until 2025
Shareholders
99.9%
Participations
1%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Belgiëplein 1
1020 Brussel
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 7 companies are registered at this address.
All companies at this address →Parc des Expositions de Bruxelles - Tentoonstellingspark van Brussel - Brüsseler Messegelände - Brussels Exhibition Center same network
€ 61.9 million revenue · 2025
FIRE-STARTER same network
€ -1,594 gross margin · 2025
Expobel Belgische Federatie van Tentoonstellingsaktiviteiten - Expobel Fédération belge des activités de l'Exposition
association for the live communication Industry
NEO
€ -1.3 million gross margin · 2025
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What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0670.726.888
- VAT number
- BE 0670.726.888
- Registered office
- Belgiëplein 1, 1020 Brussel
- Names & denominations
- Brussels Expo Catering Services · BECS
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Non-profit association
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 3 February 2017
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 27 Jun 2024
- Activities · NACE
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