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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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Busy address KBO
17 other companies have their registered office at the same address; threshold 10.
Financials
Financial year 2025
COLUMBUS HOLDCO from Vilvoorde, company number BE0810496564, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -19,915 after tax. For that financial year COLUMBUS HOLDCO recorded a gross margin of € 3.3 million and equity of € -16.6 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 8,001 to € -19,915. 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 April 29, 2026.
€ -16.6 million
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -19,915
▼ still € 8,001 profit in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 664,841
▲ 264% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -35.4 million.
People and assets in 2025
1
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 54,384
▲ 25% vs 2024
€ 54,400 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.
Debts at end 2025
€ 42.2 million
▲ 10% vs 2024
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 151,552
▲ 12% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 4,345
▲ 30% vs 2024
Wages, holiday pay and social contributions still to pay. No outstanding taxes.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 3,607,477 | € 4,241,073 | € 3,700,044 | - | |
| Gross margin | - | - | - | € 3,261,339 | |
| Profit after taxes | € 3,191 | € 82,559 | € 8,001 | € -19,915 | ▼ € 27,916 |
| Equity | € -16,642,426 | € -16,559,867 | € -16,551,865 | € -16,571,780 | |
| Total debts | € 50,739,313 | € 54,218,160 | € 58,950,763 | € 64,216,114 | ▲ 9% |
| Cash | € 4,910,004 | € 5,475,656 | € 182,448 | € 664,841 | ▲ 264% |
| Retained profit | € -35,456,321 | € -35,373,762 | € -35,365,760 | € -35,385,675 | |
| Bank debt | € 31,714,187 | € 34,885,605 | € 38,374,166 | € 42,211,582 | ▲ 10% |
| Balance sheet total | € 34,096,887 | € 37,658,293 | € 42,398,898 | € 47,644,334 | ▲ 12% |
| Employees (FTE) | 2.7 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Key figures of COLUMBUS HOLDCO, fiscal years 2022 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2026) expected before 30 April 2027.
What happened to COLUMBUS HOLDCO?
What happened at COLUMBUS HOLDCO in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Bananas Belgium NV stepped down as director. NBB
- Piet Wallyn stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 19,915 (▼ € 27,916 vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Piet Wallyn became a director. NBB
- Bananas Belgium NV became a director. NBB
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
- New establishment in Vilvoorde. KBO
In short
From € 3,191 profit in 2022 to € 19,915 loss in 2025.
Paid € 11,908 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 82,559 profit.
On average € 3.3 million 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
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Piet Wallyn
since 2014 · until 2028
since 2018 · until 2028
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Schaarbeeklei 647
1800 Vilvoorde
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Details
- Company number
- 0810.496.564
- VAT number
- BE 0810.496.564
- Registered office
- Schaarbeeklei 647, 1800 Vilvoorde
- Names & denominations
- COLUMBUS HOLDCO
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 18 March 2009
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 23 Oct 2025
- Activities · NACE
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