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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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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 18 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Columba from Sint-Martens-Latem, company number BE0776503113, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 880,215 after tax. For that financial year Columba recorded a gross margin of € 388,335 and equity of € 22.5 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 3.4 million to € 880,215. The company is profitable. The buffer is growing. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on July 14, 2026.
€ 22.5 million
▲ 4% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 880,215
▼ 74% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 87,278
▲ 21% 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 € 7.4 million.
People and assets in 2025
3.4
▲ 0.2 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 307,986
▲ 17% vs 2024
€ 90,600 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
€ 2.6 million
▼ 25% vs 2024
€ 857,143 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 3 years.
€ 101,115
▲ 13% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 29,031
▼ 6% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 208,668 | € 309,728 | € 330,551 | € 388,335 | ▲ 17% |
| Profit after taxes | € 2,413,971 | € 1,703,017 | € 3,442,435 | € 880,215 | ▼ 74% |
| Equity | € 17,471,031 | € 18,166,356 | € 21,601,003 | € 22,467,714 | ▲ 4% |
| Total debts | € 8,632,829 | € 7,850,097 | € 3,557,081 | € 2,716,358 | ▼ 24% |
| Cash | € 1,008,751 | € 967,986 | € 72,095 | € 87,278 | ▲ 21% |
| Retained profit | € 2,409,531 | € 3,104,856 | € 6,539,503 | € 7,406,214 | ▲ 13% |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 1,000,000 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Bank debt | € 8,568,175 | € 6,726,714 | € 3,428,571 | € 2,571,429 | ▼ 25% |
| Balance sheet total | € 26,103,860 | € 26,016,453 | € 25,158,083 | € 25,184,072 | |
| Employees (FTE) | 2 | 2.9 | 3.2 | 3.4 | ▲ 0.2 |
Key figures of Columba, 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 Columba?
What happened at Columba in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- True North Asset Management NV stepped down as director. NBB
- Xanadu Consult BV stepped down as director. NBB
- BNP Paribas Fortis Private Equity Belgium NV stepped down as director. NBB
- Buroot VOF stepped down as director. NBB
- Integra Capital Partners NV stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 880,215 (▼ 74% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Sint-Martens-Latem. KBO
- True North Asset Management NV became a director. NBB
In short
From € 2.4 million profit in 2022 to € 880,215 profit in 2025.
Paid € 8,759 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 3.4 million profit.
On average € 114,200 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
The stake of Integra Fund, BNP PARIBAS FORTIS PRIVATE EQUITY BELGIUM comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
ColumbaThe shares are held by Integra Fund (40%) and BNP PARIBAS FORTIS PRIVATE EQUITY BELGIUM (20%). It owns 100% of Confinity NV itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
True North Asset Management NV
Director · represented by Bernard Hendrikx
Also active at: INTEGRA CAPITAL PARTNERS, ZEPA, VINDEVOGEL FLANDERS, Integra Partners, Nestor Holding, SACK INVEST, Nestor Europe
since 2021 · until 2027
Director · represented by Cindy Schelstraete
since 2021 · until 2027
BNP Paribas Fortis Private Equity Belgium NV
Director · represented by Steven Van Droogenbroeck
Also active at: Finex, HET ANKER, A.M.B., Haco, PCSI, QUALITY ASSISTANCE, Stûv, GEMMA FRISIUS-FONDS KU LEUVEN +15 more
since 2021 · until 2027
Director · represented by Stefan Van Overbeke
since 2021 · until 2027
Director · represented by Johan Heirbrandt-Van Rijsseghem
Also active at: MAES RECYCLING GROUP, INTEGRA FUND PRIVAK, Integra Fund, VINDEVOGEL FLANDERS
since 2021 · until 2027
Shareholders
Participations
100%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Dorp 16
9830 Sint-Martens-Latem
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
- 0776.503.113
- VAT number
- BE 0776.503.113
- Registered office
- Dorp 16, 9830 Sint-Martens-Latem
- Names & denominations
- Columba
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 26 October 2021
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 27 Mar 2026
- Activities · NACE
Activiteiten van holdings
Holdings