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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
Historium from Brugge, company number BE0878909971, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 816,045 after tax. For that financial year Historium recorded a gross margin of € 1.8 million and equity of € 3.2 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 926,018 to € 816,045. 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 April 30, 2026.
€ 3.2 million
▲ 31% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 816,045
▼ 12% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 602,123
▲ 28% 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 € -1.3 million.
People and assets in 2025
9.6
▲ 0.3 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 482,166
▲ 6% vs 2024
€ 50,200 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.
€ 10,774
▲ 150% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 1.2 million
▼ 20% vs 2024
€ 195,139 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 6 years.
€ 231,632
▲ 20% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 82,318
▼ 17% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 1,584,413 | € 1,832,271 | € 1,785,535 | € 1,810,651 | ▲ 1% |
| Profit after taxes | € 860,559 | € 935,672 | € 926,018 | € 816,045 | ▼ 12% |
| Equity | € 1,692,135 | € 1,576,710 | € 2,434,925 | € 3,191,998 | ▲ 31% |
| Total debts | € 3,330,981 | € 3,104,309 | € 2,269,957 | € 1,975,758 | ▼ 13% |
| Cash | € 590,064 | € 593,695 | € 470,212 | € 602,123 | ▲ 28% |
| Land & buildings | € 577,310 | € 545,850 | € 521,957 | € 497,361 | ▼ 5% |
| Retained profit | € -3,972,096 | € -3,044,024 | € -2,138,803 | € -1,344,133 | ▲ € 794,670 |
| Bank debt | € 2,931,820 | € 1,963,640 | € 1,467,139 | € 1,175,494 | ▼ 20% |
| Balance sheet total | € 5,023,115 | € 4,681,019 | € 4,704,882 | € 5,167,755 | ▲ 10% |
| Employees (FTE) | 8.3 | 8.3 | 9.3 | 9.6 | ▲ 0.3 |
Key figures of Historium, 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 Historium?
What happened at Historium in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Hans VANDAMME stepped down as director. NBB
- PAVIA BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Cennini NV stepped down as director. NBB
- Koinon NV stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 816,045 (▼ 12% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Brugge. KBO
- H.R.V. BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Louis DE NOLF became a director. NBB
In short
From € 860,559 profit in 2022 to € 816,045 profit in 2025.
Paid € 13,068 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 935,672 profit.
On average € 188,600 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of CENNINI, Koinon, H.R.V. comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
HistoriumBehind Historium is Louis DE NOLF. The shares are held by CENNINI (33.3%), Koinon (33.3%) and H.R.V. (10.2%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Louis DE NOLF
Director
Also active at: Roularta Media Group, DUOMEDIA, LDN Business, THE BELGIAN CHOCOLATE EXPERIENCE, Hostellerie Kemmelberg, Immo Kemmelberg
since 2026
Francis DE NOLF
Director
since 2017 · until 2025
since 2017 · until 2027
since 2017 · until 2027
Director · represented by VANDAMME Hugo
Also active at: Distributienet- Beheer Brussels Airport
since 2017 · until 2026
since 2017 · until 2027
Director · represented by CLAEYS Lieve
Also active at: Roularta Media Group, THE BELGIAN CHOCOLATE EXPERIENCE
since 2017 · until 2027
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Markt 1
8000 Brugge
Philipstockstraat 2
8000 Brugge
Active since 20 April 2023
Wollestraat 17- 19
8000 Brugge
Active since 1 April 2026
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 1 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0878.909.971
- VAT number
- BE 0878.909.971
- Registered office
- Markt 1, 8000 Brugge
- Names & denominations
- Historium
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 26 January 2006
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 22 Nov 2024
- Contact
- historium.be
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