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Board fully replaced NBB
No director from three years ago is still active according to annual account 2025.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Data Trust Associates from Antwerpen, company number BE0674395963, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 547,793 after tax. For that financial year Data Trust Associates recorded a gross margin of € 1.7 million and equity of € 551,046. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 194,430 to € 547,793. Profitable, and profit is growing. The buffer is growing. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on June 23, 2026.
€ 551,046
▲ 9% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 547,793
▲ 182% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 798,298
▲ 97% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 500,000 paid out
91 % of the profit went to the shareholders, mostly to Datashift (100 % of the shares). That is where the money ends up.
People and assets in 2025
11.6
▲ 0.5 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 990,573
▲ 11% vs 2024
€ 85,400 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.
€ 21,082
▼ 77% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 46,453
▼ 51% vs 2024
€ 35,725 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 1 years.
€ 436,426
▲ 49% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 142,389
▼ 10% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 799,491 | € 1,214,610 | € 1,232,506 | € 1,719,243 | ▲ 39% |
| Profit after taxes | € 159,597 | € 258,506 | € 194,430 | € 547,793 | ▲ 182% |
| Equity | € 405,317 | € 663,823 | € 503,253 | € 551,046 | ▲ 9% |
| Total debts | € 627,909 | € 664,740 | € 1,024,348 | € 1,128,005 | ▲ 10% |
| Cash | € 47,961 | € 119,035 | € 406,144 | € 798,298 | ▲ 97% |
| Retained profit | € 384,391 | € 642,897 | € 482,327 | € 530,120 | ▲ 10% |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 0 | € 355,000 | € 500,000 | ▲ 41% |
| Bank debt | € 58,028 | € 143,521 | € 94,000 | € 46,453 | ▼ 51% |
| Balance sheet total | € 1,033,226 | € 1,328,562 | € 1,527,601 | € 1,679,051 | ▲ 10% |
| Employees (FTE) | 6.9 | 8.8 | 11.1 | 11.6 | ▲ 0.5 |
Key figures of Data Trust Associates, 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 Data Trust Associates?
What happened at Data Trust Associates in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 547,793 (▲ 182% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- VVKIA Group BV became a director. NBB
- Christoph Balduck stepped down as director. NBB
- Bert Quaegebeur stepped down as director. NBB
- John Walsh stepped down as director. NBB
- New establishment in Antwerpen. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
- Christoph Balduck became a director. NBB
In short
From € 159,597 profit in 2022 to € 547,793 profit in 2025.
Paid € 463,205 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 547,793 profit.
On average € 148,200 of value added per employee in 2025.
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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 stake of Datashift comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
Data Trust AssociatesBehind Data Trust Associates is VVKIA Group BV. The shares are held by Datashift (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
since 2026
since 2017 · until 2026
since 2017 · until 2026
John Walsh
Managing director
since 2017 · until 2026
Shareholders
100%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Hospitaalplein 11 box 2
2018 Antwerpen
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 2 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0674.395.963
- VAT number
- BE 0674.395.963
- Registered office
- Hospitaalplein 11 bus 2, 2018 Antwerpen
- Names & denominations
- Data Trust Associates · DTA
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 10 April 2017
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 13 Dec 2022
- Activities · NACE
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