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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 60 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 199.9 to 173.7.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Editions de l’Avenir Presse from Namur, company number BE0756583667, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -781,171 after tax. For that financial year Editions de l’Avenir Presse recorded revenue of € 39.6 million and equity of € -2.9 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -368,719 to € -781,171. 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 16, 2026.
€ -2.9 million
▼ € 781,171 vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -781,171
▼ 112 % more loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 927,003
▲ 4% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -7.2 million.
People and assets in 2025
173.7
▼ 7.8 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 14.7 million
€ 84,400 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.
€ 120,242
▲ 24% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 9.2 million
▲ 180% vs 2024
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 2.9 million
▼ 8% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 31 days on average.
€ 2.4 million
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Revenue | € 39,422,037 | € 39,692,592 | € 40,503,951 | € 39,594,205 | ▼ 2% |
| Profit after taxes | € -2,107,024 | € -2,978,326 | € -368,719 | € -781,171 | ▼ € 412,452 |
| Equity | € -908,158 | € -3,886,484 | € -2,130,203 | € -2,911,375 | ▼ € 781,171 |
| Total debts | € 15,804,625 | € 15,382,559 | € 16,923,981 | € 23,144,505 | ▲ 37% |
| Cash | € 2,586,166 | € 1,134,327 | € 891,902 | € 927,003 | ▲ 4% |
| Retained profit | € -3,033,158 | € -6,011,484 | € -6,380,203 | € -7,161,375 | ▼ € 781,171 |
| Bank debt | € 3,483,365 | € 1,365,043 | € 3,287,454 | € 9,214,006 | ▲ 180% |
| Balance sheet total | € 16,632,175 | € 14,958,968 | € 15,588,682 | € 20,651,122 | ▲ 32% |
| Employees (FTE) | 215.2 | 199.9 | 181.5 | 173.7 | ▼ 7.8 |
Key figures of Editions de l’Avenir Presse, 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 Editions de l’Avenir Presse?
What happened at Editions de l’Avenir Presse in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- ACCES DIRECT stepped down as director. NBB
- Juan de Hemptinne stepped down as director. NBB
- Patrice le Hodey stepped down as director. NBB
- Denis Pierrard stepped down as director. NBB
- François le Hodey stepped down as director. NBB
- Philippe le Hodey stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 781,171. Source: NBB ↗
- ACCES DIRECT became a director. NBB
In short
From € 2.1 million loss in 2022 to € 781,171 loss in 2025.
Paid € 61,808 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Pays suppliers within 31 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.
Editions de l’Avenir PresseThe shares are held by IPM Group (100%). It owns 25% of La Presse.BE and 14.9% of Copiepresse itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
since 2024 · until 2027
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, LES NEWS 24, MAXEL GROUPE, AKKANTO +3 more
since 2025 · until 2028
since 2024 · until 2027
Juan de Hemptinne
Director
since 2025 · until 2028
François le Hodey
Chairman of the board
since 2024 · until 2027
since 2024 · until 2027
Shareholders
100%
Participations
25%
14.9%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Route de Hannut(BU) 38
5004 Namur
Frankenstraat 79
1040 Etterbeek
Active since 14 October 2020
Avenue du Général-Patton 235
6700 Arlon
Active since 1 January 2021
Rue Prunieau 2 box 1
6000 Charleroi
Active since 1 January 2021
Avenue de Maire(TOU) 101
7500 Tournai
Active since 1 January 2021
Marloie, Aux Minières 2
6900 Marche-en-Famenne
Active since 1 January 2021
Place Verte 29
4800 Verviers
Active since 1 January 2021
Grand'Place 47
7800 Ath
Active since 1 January 2021
Traverse d'Esope 6
1348 Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve
Active since 1 January 2021
Rue de la Résistance 11 box RC11
4500 Huy
Active since 1 January 2021
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Details
- Company number
- 0756.583.667
- VAT number
- BE 0756.583.667
- Registered office
- Route de Hannut(BU) 38, 5004 Namur
- Names & denominations
- Editions de l’Avenir Presse · EDA Presse
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 14 October 2020
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 3 Dec 2025
- Activities · NACE
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