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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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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 24 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Storybird from Hasselt, company number BE0732950608, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -897 after tax. For that financial year Storybird recorded a gross margin of € 88,952 and equity of € -468,847. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -181,456 to € -897. 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.
€ -468,847
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -897
▲ 100 % less loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 4,058
▼ 78% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -473,847.
People and assets in 2025
2
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 80,863
▼ 51% vs 2024
€ 40,400 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.
€ 6,548
▼ 35% 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.
€ 6,218
▼ 96% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 27,552
▼ 66% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € -178,964 | € -2,654 | € -8,376 | € 88,952 | ▲ € 97,328 |
| Profit after taxes | € -257,233 | € 516,202 | € -181,456 | € -897 | ▲ € 180,559 |
| Equity | € -802,697 | € -286,495 | € -467,951 | € -468,847 | |
| Total debts | € 1,228,462 | € 701,662 | € 864,019 | € 692,241 | ▼ 20% |
| Cash | € 15,225 | € 30,302 | € 18,280 | € 4,058 | ▼ 78% |
| Retained profit | € -807,697 | € -291,495 | € -472,951 | € -473,847 | |
| Bank debt | € 1,130,000 | € 600,000 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Balance sheet total | € 425,766 | € 415,167 | € 396,068 | € 223,393 | ▼ 44% |
| Employees (FTE) | - | - | - | 2 |
Key figures of Storybird, 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 Storybird?
What happened at Storybird in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 897. Source: NBB ↗
- VAN HAVERMAET INTERNATIONAL NV became a director. NBB
- THE ZOO BV became a director. NBB
- BSWK BV became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Hasselt. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 257,233 loss in 2022 to € 897 loss in 2025.
Paid € 1,866 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 516,202 profit.
On average € 44,500 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 VH Invest 3, VH Invest 2 comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
StorybirdBehind Storybird are VAN HAVERMAET INTERNATIONAL NV, THE ZOO BV and BSWK BV. The shares are held by VH Invest 3 (50%) and VH Invest 2 (50%). It owns 100% of WHITE WOLVES and 100% of SparkFish itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
VAN HAVERMAET INTERNATIONAL NV
Niet statutaire bestuurder · represented by Peter Vandeput
Also active at: WHITE WOLVES, SparkFish, The Zoo
since 2024
Niet statutaire bestuurder · represented by Ellen Baeten
Also active at: WHITE WOLVES, SparkFish
since 2024
Niet statutaire bestuurder · represented by Wim Bijnens
Also active at: WHITE WOLVES, SparkFish, The Zoo
since 2024
Shareholders
50%
50%
Participations
100%
100%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Sint-Truidersteenweg 142
3500 Hasselt
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 3 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0732.950.608
- VAT number
- BE 0732.950.608
- Registered office
- Sint-Truidersteenweg 142, 3500 Hasselt
- Names & denominations
- Storybird
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 28 August 2019
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