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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 1 of the last 3 fiscal years.
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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2023 and 2024.
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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 57 % of short-term debt in 2024; threshold 65 %.
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Legal situation KBO
Opening faillissement according to the CBE.
Financials
Financial year 2024
CONTENO from Aartselaar, company number BE0810922770, closed financial year 2024 with a result of € -390,409 after tax. For that financial year CONTENO recorded a gross margin of € 74,208 and equity of € -11,625. Compared with financial year 2023, the result moved from € -98,432 to € -390,409. 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 December 11, 2024.
€ -11,625
▼ € 390,409 vs 2023
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -390,409
▼ 297 % more loss than in 2023
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 255,298
▼ 45% vs 2023
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -1.6 million.
People and assets in 2024
3.1
▲ 1.1 vs 2023
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 333,707
▲ 72% vs 2023
€ 107,600 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.
€ 42,305
▼ 17% vs 2023
Of which on lease € 5,203.
Debts at end 2024
€ 972,222
▲ 21% vs 2023
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 1 million
▲ 159% vs 2023
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 72,366
▲ 203% vs 2023
Wages, holiday pay and social contributions still to pay. No outstanding taxes.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Change 2023 → 2024 | |
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| Gross margin | € 130,375 | € 301,640 | € 74,208 | ▼ 75% |
| Profit after taxes | € -171,198 | € -98,432 | € -390,409 | ▼ € 291,977 |
| Equity | € 477,216 | € 378,784 | € -11,625 | ▼ € 390,409 |
| Total debts | € 2,300,802 | € 1,990,888 | € 2,853,591 | ▲ 43% |
| Cash | € 333,950 | € 461,610 | € 255,298 | ▼ 45% |
| Retained profit | € -1,106,404 | € -1,204,836 | € -1,595,246 | ▼ € 390,409 |
| Bank debt | € 1,206,861 | € 801,174 | € 972,222 | ▲ 21% |
| Balance sheet total | € 2,778,018 | € 2,369,672 | € 2,841,966 | ▲ 20% |
| Employees (FTE) | 2.2 | 2 | 3.1 | ▲ 1.1 |
Key figures of CONTENO, fiscal years 2022 to 2024, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.The annual account for fiscal year 2025 has not been filed yet; it was expected before 31 October 2025.
What happened to CONTENO?
What happened at CONTENO in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
CONTENO is active according to the CBE. Legal situation: Opening faillissement.
- New annual accounts for financial year 2024: loss of € 390,409. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Xavier De Buck Van Overstraeten stepped down as director. NBB
- Alexandre VANDEKERCKHOVE stepped down as director. NBB
- Philippe HAMER stepped down as director. NBB
- Van Steen Christophe stepped down as director. NBB
- Axel VANDERSTRAETEN stepped down as director. NBB
- Axel VANDERSTRAETEN became a director. NBB
- Xavier De Buck Van Overstraeten became a director. NBB
In short
From € 171,198 loss in 2022 to € 390,409 loss in 2024.
Paid € 2,894 in corporate taxes since 2022.
On average € 23,900 of value added per employee in 2024.
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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 db&vo, EUROSEAM, CENESTALFIEN comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
CONTENOThe shares are held by db&vo (14%), EUROSEAM (12.1%) and CENESTALFIEN.
Directors
According to the 2024 annual accounts
since 2018 · until 2023
Alexandre VANDEKERCKHOVE
Director
Also active at: BURACO, OINIMMO, 4Reliance, BICYCLIC GROUP, IMMO-REYERS, OINOS, DMC Holding, KAYROS INVESTMENTS
since 2018 · until 2023
Philippe HAMER
Director
Also active at: COMPAGNIE BELGE IMMOBILIERE, MANAGEMENT INFORMATION, SORINVEST CONSTRUCT, CertUp, RANSBECK MANAGEMENT, IMMOBILIERE DE RANSBECK, Allée St Jacques, ZAPIMMO +1 more
since 2018 · until 2023
Van Steen Christophe
Managing director
since 2014 · until 2023
Axel VANDERSTRAETEN
Director
since 2019 · until 2023
Shareholders
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Industrieweg 4
2630 Aartselaar
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Details
- Company number
- 0810.922.770
- VAT number
- BE 0810.922.770
- Registered office
- Industrieweg 4, 2630 Aartselaar
- Names & denominations
- CONTENO
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Opening faillissement
- Start date
- 3 April 2009
- Peppol
- Not registered
- Activities · NACE
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