Warning lights
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 2022 and 2023.
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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 38 % of short-term debt in 2023; threshold 65 %.
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Legal situation KBO
Opening faillissement according to the CBE.
Financials
Financial year 2023
EXOTHERA from Charleroi, company number BE0744643660, closed financial year 2023 with a result of € -31.4 million after tax. For that financial year EXOTHERA recorded revenue of € 10 million and equity of € 4.6 million. Compared with financial year 2022, the result moved from € -23 million to € -31.4 million. The company made a loss. 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 4, 2024.
€ 4.6 million
▲ 22% vs 2022
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -31.4 million
▼ 36 % more loss than in 2022
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 2.3 million
▲ 30% vs 2022
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -8.5 million.
People and assets in 2023
139.2
▲ 5.9 vs 2022
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 13.8 million
▲ 13% vs 2022
€ 99,100 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.
€ 6.4 million
▲ 10% vs 2022
Of which on lease € 6.3 million.
Debts at end 2023
€ 5.7 million
▼ 7% vs 2022
€ 1.4 million is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 4 years.
€ 13.5 million
▲ 33% vs 2022
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 305 days on average.
€ 2.5 million
▼ 5% vs 2022
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | Change 2022 → 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 4,169,181 | € 7,135,834 | € 9,954,953 | ▲ 40% |
| Profit after taxes | € -11,411,198 | € -22,975,304 | € -31,353,894 | ▼ € 8.4 million |
| Equity | € 2,786,882 | € 3,798,443 | € 4,642,084 | ▲ 22% |
| Total debts | € 18,018,911 | € 25,354,123 | € 31,008,330 | ▲ 22% |
| Cash | € 726,811 | € 1,779,958 | € 2,313,505 | ▲ 30% |
| Retained profit | € -3,599,058 | € -6,714,136 | € -8,521,139 | ▼ € 1.8 million |
| Bank debt | € 2,332,854 | € 6,064,439 | € 5,668,578 | ▼ 7% |
| Balance sheet total | € 20,805,794 | € 29,152,566 | € 35,650,414 | ▲ 22% |
| Employees (FTE) | 84 | 133.3 | 139.2 | ▲ 5.9 |
Key figures of EXOTHERA, fiscal years 2021 to 2023, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.The annual account for fiscal year 2024 has not been filed yet; it was expected before 31 July 2025.
What happened to EXOTHERA?
What happened at EXOTHERA in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
EXOTHERA is active according to the CBE. Legal situation: Opening faillissement.
- Viva Finance SRL stepped down as director. NBB
- ALERION BV stepped down as director. NBB
- ANTROBUS SRL stepped down as director. NBB
- Hugues BULTOT stepped down as director. NBB
- José CASTILLO stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2023: loss of € 31.4 million. Source: NBB ↗
- Viva Finance SRL became a director. NBB
- ALERION BV became a director. NBB
In short
From € 11.4 million loss in 2021 to € 31.4 million loss in 2023.
Management
The stake of UNIVERCELLS comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
EXOTHERAThe shares are held by UNIVERCELLS (100%).
Directors
According to the 2023 annual accounts
Hugues BULTOT
Managing director
Also active at: H ET B MANAGEMENT, UNIVERCELLS, UNIZIMA, Quantoom Biosciences, Quantoom Bioservices, RLM Consulting
since 2020 · until 2026
since 2020 · until 2023
Director · represented by Jean-Marc LEGRAND
Also active at: DEPLOYMENTS FACTORY, SORTLIST, SYNERGIA MEDICAL, BEAPART, Smart Assist, B.C.I. Pharma, YUST Group, TheClubDeal Club I +3 more
since 2020 · until 2023
since 2024 · until 2029
since 2020 · until 2023
since 2024 · until 2029
since 2020 · until 2026
Director · represented by Christine DESTENAY
Also active at: A.M.B., Floridienne, ORTIS, Barthel PAULS Fils - Barthel PAULS SOhne, RECYCLAGE ET VALORISATION TECHNIQUE, UPIGNAC, HOLZINDUSTRIE PAULS, ECOTERRES +38 more
since 2020 · until 2023
Director · represented by Sara Kate ANTROBUS
Also active at: Bluesquare, Quantoom Biosciences
since 2021 · until 2027
Shareholders
100%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Zoning de Jumet,avenue Centrale 52
6040 Charleroi
rue de la Maitrise 11
1400 Nivelles
Active since 2 March 2020
Rue Auguste Piccard 48
6041 Charleroi
Active since 2 March 2020
Zoning de Jumet,avenue Centrale 8
6040 Charleroi
Active since 2 March 2020
Herrmann-Debrouxlaan 54
1160 Oudergem
Active since 2 March 2020
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 2 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0744.643.660
- VAT number
- BE 0744.643.660
- Registered office
- Zoning de Jumet,avenue Centrale 52, 6040 Charleroi
- Names & denominations
- EXOTHERA
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Opening faillissement
- Start date
- 2 March 2020
- Peppol
- Not registered
- Activities · NACE
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