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51 other companies have their registered office at the same address; threshold 10.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Arena Events from Gent, company number BE0836260556, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -151,780 after tax. For that financial year Arena Events recorded a gross margin of € 236,039 and equity of € 31,444. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 11,666 to € -151,780. The company made a loss. The buffer shrank hard: equity is 83 % below last year. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on February 24, 2026.
€ 31,444
▼ 83% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -151,780
▼ still € 11,666 profit in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 113,927
▼ 48% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 11,444.
People and assets in 2025
5.9
▲ 2.1 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 303,027
▲ 61% vs 2024
€ 51,400 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.
€ 37,347
▼ 54% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 182,299
▼ 24% vs 2024
€ 32,233 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 2 years.
€ 2.4 million
▲ 43% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 40,349
▲ 20% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 285,605 | € 145,179 | € 251,708 | € 236,039 | ▼ 6% |
| Profit after taxes | € -80,411 | € -56,751 | € 11,666 | € -151,780 | ▼ € 163,446 |
| Equity | € 228,309 | € 171,558 | € 183,224 | € 31,444 | ▼ 83% |
| Total debts | € 2,314,612 | € 1,544,876 | € 1,932,714 | € 2,587,859 | ▲ 34% |
| Cash | € 165,211 | € 38,837 | € 217,707 | € 113,927 | ▼ 48% |
| Retained profit | € 208,309 | € 151,558 | € 163,224 | € 11,444 | ▼ 93% |
| Bank debt | € 0 | € 96,911 | € 239,675 | € 182,299 | ▼ 24% |
| Balance sheet total | € 2,542,922 | € 1,716,434 | € 2,115,938 | € 2,619,303 | ▲ 24% |
| Employees (FTE) | 1 | 3.2 | 3.8 | 5.9 | ▲ 2.1 |
Key figures of Arena Events, 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 January 2027.
What happened to Arena Events?
What happened at Arena Events in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 151,780 (▼ € 163,446 vs 2024). filed late Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Genk. KBO
- Michiel Vanderheyden became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Gent. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 80,411 loss in 2022 to € 151,780 loss in 2025.
Paid € 30,408 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 11,666 profit.
On average € 40,000 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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NMBS 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left ▼ 80%
bpost 18 May 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left from loss to profit
Management
The stake of M. VANDERHEYDEN BVBA comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
Arena EventsBehind Arena Events is Michiel Vanderheyden. The shares are held by M. VANDERHEYDEN BVBA (50%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Michiel Vanderheyden
Director
Also active at: CLOCKWORK, ANALOG PEOPLE, tRibe.Experience, Lust for Life, M. VANDERHEYDEN BVBA, PORTA MUNDI, PERFECT +
since 2017
Shareholders
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Ottergemsesteenweg-Zuid 808 box B
9000 Gent
Ottergemsesteenweg-Zuid 808 box 41
9000 Gent
Active since 13 May 2011
Stadionplein 4
3600 Genk
Active since 31 May 2023
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- Company number
- 0836.260.556
- VAT number
- BE 0836.260.556
- Registered office
- Ottergemsesteenweg-Zuid 808 bus B, 9000 Gent
- Names & denominations
- Arena Events
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 10 May 2011
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