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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 2.8 to 1.6.
Financials
Financial year 2025
COGITA from Brugge, company number BE0722933872, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 11,098 after tax. For that financial year COGITA recorded a gross margin of € 147,314 and equity of € 19,097. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 73,817 to € 11,098. The company is profitable. The buffer is growing. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on July 31, 2026.
€ 19,097
▲ 1% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 11,098
▼ 85% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 7,470
▼ 65% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 11,000 paid out
99 % of the profit went to the shareholders, mostly to Factor F (100 % of the shares). That is where the money ends up.
People and assets in 2025
1.6
▼ 0.5 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 121,115
▼ 31% vs 2024
€ 75,700 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.
Debts at end 2025
€ 3,285
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 39,146
▲ € 30,109 vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 58,497
▼ 12% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 135,776 | € 293,156 | € 281,348 | € 147,314 | ▼ 48% |
| Profit after taxes | € 5,571 | € 55,270 | € 73,817 | € 11,098 | ▼ 85% |
| Equity | € 18,913 | € 19,183 | € 18,999 | € 19,097 | ▲ 1% |
| Total debts | € 102,440 | € 172,196 | € 216,486 | € 193,814 | ▼ 10% |
| Cash | € 6,571 | € 6,509 | € 21,264 | € 7,470 | ▼ 65% |
| Retained profit | € 313 | € 583 | € 399 | € 497 | ▲ 25% |
| Dividend | € 7,500 | € 55,000 | € 74,000 | € 11,000 | ▼ 85% |
| Bank debt | € 0 | € 0 | € 0 | € 3,285 | |
| Balance sheet total | € 121,353 | € 191,379 | € 235,485 | € 212,912 | ▼ 10% |
| Employees (FTE) | 1.7 | 2.8 | 2.1 | 1.6 | ▼ 0.5 |
Key figures of COGITA, 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 COGITA?
What happened at COGITA in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 11,098 (▼ 85% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Brugge. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 5,571 profit in 2022 to € 11,098 profit in 2025.
Paid € 54,974 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 73,817 profit.
On average € 92,100 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of Factor F comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
COGITABehind COGITA are HD ACCOUNTANCY BV, FIMIR BV and RES CAPITIS BV. The shares are held by Factor F (100%). It owns 50% of BIZPLUS itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Dieter Hoste
Also active at: OOSTBOEK, Factor F, HET FACTORHUIS
Director · represented by Mattijs Wittevrongel
Also active at: OOSTBOEK, Factor F, HET FACTORHUIS
Director · represented by Geert Hutsebaut
Also active at: OOSTBOEK, Factor F, HET FACTORHUIS
Shareholders
100%
Participations
50%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Koningin Astridlaan 134 box 1
8200 Brugge
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 6 companies are registered at this address.
All companies at this address →OOSTBOEK same network
€ 1.6 million gross margin · 2025
Factor F same network
€ 60,796 gross margin · 2025
BNI Permeke
HET FACTORHUIS same network
€ 161,525 gross margin · 2025
JONCKHEERE IR-ARCHITECTEN
€ 1.2 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
- 0722.933.872
- VAT number
- BE 0722.933.872
- Registered office
- Koningin Astridlaan 134 bus 1, 8200 Brugge
- Names & denominations
- COGITA
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 19 March 2019
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 7 Jan 2026
- Activities · NACE
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