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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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Negative equity NBB
More debt than assets in 4 of the last 4 fiscal years.
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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2024 and 2025.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 22.6 to 12.9.
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Busy address KBO
42 other companies have their registered office at the same address; threshold 10.
Financials
Financial year 2025
LES NEWS 24 from Etterbeek, company number BE0711723741, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -1.9 million after tax. For that financial year LES NEWS 24 recorded revenue of € 3.7 million and equity of € -1.9 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -3.3 million to € -1.9 million. The company made a loss. More debts than assets. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on July 27, 2026.
€ -1.9 million
▲ € 8.4 million vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -1.9 million
▲ 40 % less loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 682,523
▲ 123% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -3.3 million.
People and assets in 2025
12.9
▼ 3.3 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 824,182
▼ 22% vs 2024
€ 63,900 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.
€ 443,381
▼ 35% vs 2024
Of which on lease € 393,203.
Debts at end 2025
€ 904,127
▼ 44% vs 2024
€ 224,279 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 4 years.
€ 755,571
▲ 66% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 58 days on average.
€ 152,876
▲ 56% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Revenue | € 2,449,221 | € 2,933,359 | € 2,738,342 | € 3,665,601 | ▲ 34% |
| Profit after taxes | € -3,970,780 | € -4,849,543 | € -3,270,408 | € -1,947,107 | ▲ € 1.3 million |
| Equity | € -2,163,428 | € -7,012,970 | € -10,283,379 | € -1,905,486 | ▲ € 8.4 million |
| Total debts | € 4,772,821 | € 9,505,663 | € 12,305,832 | € 3,975,864 | ▼ 68% |
| Cash | € 453 | € 65,442 | € 305,676 | € 682,523 | ▲ 123% |
| Retained profit | € -13,513,428 | € -18,362,970 | € -21,633,379 | € -3,291,986 | ▲ € 18.3 million |
| Bank debt | € 2,447,274 | € 2,026,441 | € 1,613,672 | € 904,127 | ▼ 44% |
| Balance sheet total | € 2,609,393 | € 2,755,692 | € 2,042,453 | € 2,070,379 | ▲ 1% |
| Employees (FTE) | 27.6 | 22.6 | 16.2 | 12.9 | ▼ 3.3 |
Key figures of LES NEWS 24, 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 LES NEWS 24?
What happened at LES NEWS 24 in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- REGIE MEDIA BELGE SA stepped down as director. NBB
- MAJA GROUP SA stepped down as director. NBB
- MAJA SA stepped down as director. NBB
- ACCESS DIRECT SA stepped down as director. NBB
- IPM RADIO SA stepped down as director. NBB
- FM DEVELOPPEMENT SRL stepped down as director. NBB
- Nicolas DEBRAY stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 1.9 million. Source: NBB ↗
In short
From € 4 million loss in 2022 to € 1.9 million loss in 2025.
Paid € 2,484 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Pays suppliers within 58 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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Management
The stake of IPM Group comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
LES NEWS 24The shares are held by Maja Group SA (64%), Belfius Insurance SA (18%), Belgian Media Ventures SA (9%), SPORTS & MEDIA SALESHOUSE SA (9%), Besix group SA (0%) and Finance & Invest Brussels SA (0%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Patrice le Hodey
Also active at: B en M, ASSOCIATION DES GRANDS VOYAGEURS- VERENIGING VOOR GROTE REIZIGERS, FUN RADIO BELGIQUE, WantoTravel, BSCOVERY, IPM RADIO, SAGEVAS
since 2024 · until 2026
Cécile SCALAIS
Director
since 2024 · until 2026
Johan BEERLANDT
Director
Also active at: BESIX Group, Entreprises Jacques Delens, N.V. BESIX S.A., BESIX Environment, IMMO RENAISSANCE, ManCo Investment Company Plus
since 2024 · until 2026
Freddy TACHENY
Director
Also active at: 2W EVENTS, ZELOS EVENTS, MOTORCYCLE INVESTMENT GROUP, ZELOS, SPORTS & MEDIA SALESHOUSE, SPORT INVESTMENT GROUP, MEDIA INSIDE, F.TACHENY
since 2025 · until 2026
Yves GERARD
Director
Also active at: PROMA, ASSOCIATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO SALES HOUSES, SPORTS & MEDIA SALESHOUSE, MASAAL, Casa Kafka Pictures
since 2025 · until 2026
Director · represented by Yves GERARD
Also active at: SPORTS & MEDIA SALESHOUSE, Casa Kafka Pictures
since 2026 · until 2028
Director · represented by Pierre Rion
Also active at: IPM Group, SOCIETE D'INVESTISSEMENT ET DE FINANCEMENT DU BRABANT WALLON, Lease.BW, B2START, E-HEALTH VENTURE, Editions de l’Avenir Presse, MAXEL GROUPE, AKKANTO +3 more
since 2024 · until 2027
since 2024 · until 2027
since 2026 · until 2027
Director · represented by François le Hodey
Also active at: MICRO - FM, ASSOCIATION DES GRANDS VOYAGEURS- VERENIGING VOOR GROTE REIZIGERS, FM DEVELOPPEMENT, WantoTravel, CARACTERE, IPM RADIO, Capital-X
since 2026 · until 2028
Director · represented by Philippe le Hodey
Also active at: B en M, ASSOCIATION DES GRANDS VOYAGEURS- VERENIGING VOOR GROTE REIZIGERS, WantoTravel, EUROPEAN TELEMATICS, BSCOVERY, IPM RADIO, SAGEVAS
since 2025 · until 2028
Chairman of the board · represented by François le Hodey
Also active at: B en M, MICRO - FM, ASSOCIATION DES GRANDS VOYAGEURS- VERENIGING VOOR GROTE REIZIGERS, FUN RADIO BELGIQUE, FM DEVELOPPEMENT, WantoTravel, BSCOVERY, IPM RADIO +3 more
since 2024 · until 2026
Shareholders
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Frankenstraat 79
1040 Etterbeek
Genèvestraat 175
1140 Evere
Active since 16 October 2018
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Details
- Company number
- 0711.723.741
- VAT number
- BE 0711.723.741
- Registered office
- Frankenstraat 79, 1040 Etterbeek
- Names & denominations
- LES NEWS 24 · LN24
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 16 October 2018
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