Financials
Financial year 2025
GL EVENTS BRUSSELS from Brussel, company number BE0898218515, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 691,635 after tax. For that financial year GL EVENTS BRUSSELS recorded revenue of € 14.1 million and equity of € 835,634. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 1.8 million to € 691,635. The company is profitable. The company holds a healthy buffer. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on May 29, 2026.
€ 835,634
▼ 16% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 691,635
▼ 61% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 4.2 million
▼ 18% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 845,000 paid out
More than the year’s profit went to the shareholders; reserves fell.
People and assets in 2025
23.2
▲ 1.1 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 2 million
▲ 8% vs 2024
€ 84,800 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.
€ 81,266
▼ 47% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
None
No bank loans on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 4.2 million
▼ 1% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 139 days on average.
€ 376,582
▲ 24% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 16,311,749 | € 14,354,662 | € 16,627,852 | € 14,102,285 | ▼ 15% |
| Profit after taxes | € 2,076,430 | € 1,045,931 | € 1,774,220 | € 691,635 | ▼ 61% |
| Equity | € 828,249 | € 914,780 | € 988,999 | € 835,634 | ▼ 16% |
| Total debts | € 6,709,918 | € 6,638,717 | € 7,968,204 | € 6,890,082 | ▼ 14% |
| Cash | € 3,939,932 | € 2,812,127 | € 5,135,011 | € 4,192,232 | ▼ 18% |
| Retained profit | € 578,249 | € 664,780 | € 738,999 | € 585,634 | ▼ 21% |
| Dividend | € 1,246,000 | € 959,400 | € 1,700,000 | € 845,000 | ▼ 50% |
| Balance sheet total | € 7,762,102 | € 7,777,431 | € 8,957,203 | € 7,725,717 | ▼ 14% |
| Employees (FTE) | 21.8 | 22.8 | 22.1 | 23.2 | ▲ 1.1 |
Key figures of GL EVENTS BRUSSELS, 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 GL EVENTS BRUSSELS?
What happened at GL EVENTS BRUSSELS in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Alexandra ROUSIER stepped down as director. NBB
- Christophe CIZERON stepped down as director. NBB
- Laurent VRIJDAGHS stepped down as director. NBB
- Anne-Sophie GINON stepped down as director. NBB
- Ariane DEGUELLE stepped down as director. NBB
- Palais des Congrès Sa stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 691,635 (▼ 61% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Alexandra ROUSIER became a director. NBB
In short
From € 2.1 million profit in 2022 to € 691,635 profit in 2025.
Paid € 1.9 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 2.1 million profit.
Paid out € 4.8 million in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
The stake of Congrespaleis comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
GL EVENTS BRUSSELSThe shares are held by Congrespaleis (15%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Laurent VRIJDAGHS
Director
since 2024 · until 2030
since 2024 · until 2030
Director · represented by Xavier GODDAER
since 2024 · until 2030
Alexandra ROUSIER
Director
since 2025 · until 2031
Christophe CIZERON
Director
since 2025 · until 2031
Ariane DEGUELLE
Managing director
since 2024 · until 2030
Shareholders
15%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Ravensteinstraat 2
1000 Brussel
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Details
- Company number
- 0898.218.515
- VAT number
- BE 0898.218.515
- Registered office
- Ravensteinstraat 2, 1000 Brussel
- Names & denominations
- GL EVENTS BRUSSELS
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 29 May 2008
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 1 Jan 2001
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