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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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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2024 and 2025.
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Busy address KBO
76 other companies have their registered office at the same address; threshold 10.
Financials
Financial year 2025
ARDENT INVEST from Liège, company number BE0700472731, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -2.6 million after tax. For that financial year ARDENT INVEST recorded a gross margin of € -251,305 and equity of € 26.4 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -2 million to € -2.6 million. 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 January 29, 2026.
€ 26.4 million
▲ € 27.4 million vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -2.6 million
▼ 27 % more loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 1.4 million
▲ € 1.3 million vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -591,498.
People and assets in 2025
10.3
▲ 1 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 927,000
▲ 20% vs 2024
€ 90,000 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.
€ 4.1 million
▼ 4% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 29.3 million
▼ 3% vs 2024
€ 538,568 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 54 years.
€ 307,213
▼ 22% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 147,433
▲ 72% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2021 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 347,752 | € 536,783 | € -180,688 | € -251,305 | ▼ € 70,617 |
| Profit after taxes | € -1,562,892 | € -1,113,680 | € -2,045,312 | € -2,601,690 | ▼ € 556,378 |
| Equity | € 2,169,185 | € 1,055,504 | € -989,808 | € 26,408,502 | ▲ € 27.4 million |
| Total debts | € 25,057,325 | € 37,735,300 | € 55,664,953 | € 35,599,017 | ▼ 36% |
| Cash | € 319,623 | € 10,234 | € 128,360 | € 1,414,616 | ▲ € 1.3 million |
| Retained profit | € -1,830,815 | € -2,944,496 | € -4,989,808 | € -591,498 | ▲ € 4.4 million |
| Bank debt | € 12,021,000 | € 30,133,995 | € 30,077,780 | € 29,284,365 | ▼ 3% |
| Balance sheet total | € 27,226,509 | € 38,790,804 | € 54,675,145 | € 62,007,519 | ▲ 13% |
| Employees (FTE) | 4.4 | 7 | 9.3 | 10.3 | ▲ 1 |
Key figures of ARDENT INVEST, fiscal years 2021 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2026) expected before 30 January 2027.
What happened to ARDENT INVEST?
What happened at ARDENT INVEST in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Nicolas Léonard stepped down as director. NBB
- FABERFIN stepped down as director. NBB
- MILE MANAGEMENT SRL stepped down as director. NBB
- CHB MANAGEMENT SRL stepped down as director. NBB
- GESTBEL SRL stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 2.6 million. Source: NBB ↗
- CHB MANAGEMENT SRL became a director. NBB
- FABERFIN became a director. NBB
In short
From € 1.6 million loss in 2021 to € 2.6 million loss in 2025.
Paid € 7,548 in corporate taxes since 2021.
On average € 76,700 of value added per employee in 2023.
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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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Management
The stake of MILE HOLDING, BELGO LEO HOLDING comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
ARDENT INVESTThe shares are held by MILE HOLDING (50%) and BELGO LEO HOLDING (50%). It owns 100% of GUILLEMINS REAL ESTATES, 100% of BRASSERIE ARDENT, 100% of HOTEL GUILLEMINS, 100% of ARDENT REAL ESTATE, 100% of ARDENT ENERGY and 97% of BELGIUM BEER EXPORT itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Nicolas Léonard
Managing director
Also active at: TILKIN SPORTS, GUILLEMINS REAL ESTATE, BELGIUM BEER EXPORT, HOTEL GUILLEMINS, QSL Immo, BRASSERIE ARDENTE, DREAM ENERGY ARDENT, QDA IMMO
since 2018 · until 2030
since 2022 · until 2030
Chairman of the board · represented by Emmanuel Mewissen
Also active at: TILKIN SPORTS, BODSON - TROUPIN - SERVICE, D.A. GESTION, PARC D'ATTRACTION LIEGEOIS, ARDENT BETTING, EGA IMMO, LIEGE OFFICE CENTER, HOTEL GUILLEMINS +20 more
since 2018 · until 2030
Director · represented by Charlotte Braillon
since 2024 · until 2030
Managing director · represented by Jean-Marie Léonard
Also active at: TILKIN SPORTS, GESTION LOISIRS, FABY, BODSON - TROUPIN - SERVICE, D.A. GESTION, SUNRISE, LEDCOM, GUILLEMINS REAL ESTATE +18 more
since 2018 · until 2030
Shareholders
50%
Participations
100%
100%
100%
100%
33.3%
25%
6%
4.1%
4.1%
SAG VENTURE 2 LIMITED
2.3%
1.9%
1.1%
1.1%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Rue des Guillemins 139 box 9
4000 Liège
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 76 companies are registered at this address.
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€ -19,715 gross margin · 2025
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€ 72,516 gross margin · 2025
GESTION LOISIRS same network
€ -18,480 gross margin · 2024
+71 more
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0700.472.731
- VAT number
- BE 0700.472.731
- Registered office
- Rue des Guillemins 139 bus 9, 4000 Liège
- Names & denominations
- ARDENT INVEST
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 28 July 2018
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 20 Nov 2020
- Contact
- [email protected] +3242321952
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