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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 64 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Leap Forward from Gent, company number BE0678735823, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 241,106 after tax. For that financial year Leap Forward recorded revenue of € 6 million and equity of € 593,739. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 229,263 to € 241,106. 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 September 10, 2026.
€ 593,739
▲ 8% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 241,106
▲ 5% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 9,507
▲ 8% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 199,000 paid out
83 % of the profit went to the shareholders, mostly to Hyperion Group NV (85 % of the shares). That is where the money ends up.
People and assets in 2025
9.2
▲ 0.2 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 714,358
▲ 4% vs 2024
€ 77,600 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.
€ 10,814
▲ 25% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
None
No bank loans on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 1.1 million
▼ 6% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 112,536
▼ 26% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 4,216,178 | € 5,799,920 | € 4,378,452 | € 6,016,278 | ▲ 37% |
| Gross margin | € 1,035,366 | € 1,205,710 | € 920,082 | € 1,014,837 | ▲ 10% |
| Profit after taxes | € 307,324 | € 258,470 | € 229,263 | € 241,106 | ▲ 5% |
| Equity | € 397,899 | € 504,369 | € 551,633 | € 593,739 | ▲ 8% |
| Total debts | € 2,563,568 | € 2,217,033 | € 2,988,288 | € 2,335,768 | ▼ 22% |
| Cash | € 57,402 | € 15,853 | € 8,773 | € 9,507 | ▲ 8% |
| Retained profit | € 335,899 | € 442,369 | € 489,633 | € 531,739 | ▲ 9% |
| Dividend | € 192,000 | € 152,000 | € 182,000 | € 199,000 | ▲ 9% |
| Bank debt | € 0 | € 0 | € 696,525 | € 0 | ▼ 100% |
| Balance sheet total | € 2,961,578 | € 2,721,402 | € 3,539,921 | € 2,929,924 | ▼ 17% |
| Employees (FTE) | 11.4 | 11 | 9 | 9.2 | ▲ 0.2 |
Key figures of Leap Forward, 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 Leap Forward?
What happened at Leap Forward in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- De Cronos Groep stepped down as director. NBB
- HAJO BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Josephus de Wit stepped down as director. NBB
- Hyperion Group NV stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 241,106 (▲ 5% vs 2024). filed late Source: NBB ↗
- De Cronos Groep became a director. NBB
- HAJO BV became a director. NBB
- Josephus de Wit became a director. NBB
In short
From € 307,324 profit in 2022 to € 241,106 profit in 2025.
Paid € 152,164 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 307,324 profit.
On average € 110,300 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The shares are held by Hyperion Group NV (85%). It owns 85% of Knight Moves, 80% of Anvil, 78% of Little Miss Robot and 78% of Fluo itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Dirk Deroost
Owns 59.8% via Hyperion Group NV
Also active at: RESIDENCE LES ONDES, FOCUS ADVERTISING, Cronos, EECKHOUT JAN, VENTIGRATE, CRONOS PUBLIC SERVICES, Customer Link, Obycron +444 more
since 2023 · until 2029
Director · represented by Hans Bosmans
since 2023 · until 2029
Josephus de Wit
Director
since 2023 · until 2029
Director · represented by Marc Verlinde
since 2023 · until 2029
Shareholders
Hyperion Group NV · holding of De Cronos Groep
85%
Participations
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Sint-Salvatorstraat 18/303
9000 Gent
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0678.735.823
- VAT number
- BE 0678.735.823
- Registered office
- Sint-Salvatorstraat 18/303, 9000 Gent
- Names & denominations
- Leap Forward
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 19 July 2017
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 1 Jan 2001
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