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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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 61 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Board fully replaced NBB
No director from three years ago is still active according to annual account 2025.
Financials
Financial year 2025
COLUMBUS GROUP ADVICE from Hasselt, company number BE0768976507, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 1,097 after tax. For that financial year COLUMBUS GROUP ADVICE recorded a gross margin of € 584,703 and equity of € 47,916. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -105 to € 1,097. Profitable, and profit is growing. 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 30, 2026.
€ 47,916
▲ 2% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 1,097
▲ still € 105 loss in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 5,753
▼ 67% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Stays in the company
No dividend for 2025. Retained profit grew to € 46,916.
People and assets in 2025
5.9
▲ 2 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 395,904
▲ 8% vs 2024
€ 67,100 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.
€ 188,737
▼ 13% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 113,357
▼ 11% vs 2024
€ 7,480 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 11 years.
€ 428,424
▼ 57% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 28,576
▲ 46% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € -17,336 | € 210,119 | € 479,053 | € 584,703 | ▲ 22% |
| Profit after taxes | € -27,235 | € 46,619 | € -105 | € 1,097 | ▲ € 1,202 |
| Equity | € 304 | € 46,924 | € 46,819 | € 47,916 | ▲ 2% |
| Total debts | € 208,219 | € 529,221 | € 1,554,342 | € 1,864,659 | ▲ 20% |
| Cash | € 153,531 | € 29,283 | € 17,203 | € 5,753 | ▼ 67% |
| Retained profit | € -696 | € 45,924 | € 45,819 | € 46,916 | ▲ 2% |
| Bank debt | € 134,551 | € 108,503 | € 127,794 | € 113,357 | ▼ 11% |
| Balance sheet total | € 208,523 | € 576,145 | € 1,601,160 | € 1,912,574 | ▲ 19% |
| Employees (FTE) | - | - | 3.9 | 5.9 | ▲ 2 |
Key figures of COLUMBUS GROUP ADVICE, 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 COLUMBUS GROUP ADVICE?
What happened at COLUMBUS GROUP ADVICE in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 1,097. Source: NBB ↗
- DARWIN NV stepped down as director. NBB
- New establishment in Hasselt. KBO
- DARWIN NV became a director. NBB
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 27,235 loss in 2022 to € 1,097 profit in 2025.
Paid € 17,165 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 46,619 profit.
On average € 99,100 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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Management
Behind COLUMBUS GROUP ADVICE is THIS CLOSE Comm.V. THIS CLOSE Comm.V is also behind Life Planning, GLOBUS Q, M&G, BTTMLINE and M&N.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Roberto Musardo
Also active at: Life Planning, GLOBUS Q, M&G, BTTMLINE, M&N
Director · represented by Joris Mees
Also active at: APOTHEEK ELZEDORP, MEES MANAGEMENT APOTHEEK, Columbus Group, ANTWERP PHARMACIES, MV-Management, Life Planning, DSA HOLDING, GLOBUS Q +4 more
since 2021 · until 2026
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Mombeekdreef 38
3500 Hasselt
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 8 companies are registered at this address.
All companies at this address →Columbus Group same network
€ 687,813 gross margin · 2025
VIGOR BROKERS
€ 467 gross margin · 2025
Life Planning same network
€ 61,879 gross margin · 2025
GLOBUS Q same network
€ 130,188 gross margin · 2024
GLOBUS Q INVEST
€ 144,061 gross margin · 2024
+3 more
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0768.976.507
- VAT number
- BE 0768.976.507
- Registered office
- Mombeekdreef 38, 3500 Hasselt
- Names & denominations
- COLUMBUS GROUP ADVICE
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 1 June 2021
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 8 Oct 2025
- Activities · NACE
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