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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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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2023 and 2024.
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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 44 % of short-term debt in 2024; threshold 65 %.
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Board fully replaced NBB
No director from three years ago is still active according to annual account 2024.
Financials
Financial year 2024
FISHING CACTUS from Mons, company number BE0899986685, closed financial year 2024 with a result of € -10,472 after tax. For that financial year FISHING CACTUS recorded a gross margin of € 2.5 million and equity of € 3.1 million. Compared with financial year 2023, the result moved from € -46,410 to € -10,472. The company made a loss. The company holds a healthy buffer. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on December 19, 2025.
€ 3.1 million
▼ 8% vs 2023
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -10,472
▲ 77 % less loss than in 2023
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 298,778
▲ 196% vs 2023
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 1.1 million.
People and assets in 2024
32.5
▲ 7.1 vs 2023
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.5 million
▲ 32% vs 2023
€ 47,300 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.
€ 21,794
▼ 28% vs 2023
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2024
€ 2.1 million
€ 365,354 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 3 years.
€ 251,874
▼ 71% vs 2023
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 509,432
▲ 33% vs 2023
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Change 2023 → 2024 | |
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| Gross margin | € 1,683,496 | € 1,634,195 | € 1,963,339 | € 2,531,025 | ▲ 29% |
| Profit after taxes | € 444,203 | € 152,391 | € -46,410 | € -10,472 | ▲ € 35,939 |
| Equity | € 2,493,561 | € 2,583,949 | € 3,389,490 | € 3,107,015 | ▼ 8% |
| Total debts | € 2,501,369 | € 2,722,985 | € 4,355,190 | € 4,665,021 | ▲ 7% |
| Cash | € 164,535 | € 260,073 | € 100,896 | € 298,778 | ▲ 196% |
| Land & buildings | € 555,599 | € 507,475 | € 468,985 | € 420,606 | ▼ 10% |
| Retained profit | € 1,017,538 | € 1,119,929 | € 1,073,519 | € 1,063,047 | ▼ 1% |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 50,000 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Bank debt | € 2,072,004 | € 2,017,527 | € 2,088,907 | € 2,089,665 | |
| Balance sheet total | € 4,994,929 | € 5,306,934 | € 7,744,680 | € 7,772,037 | |
| Employees (FTE) | 16.3 | 16.9 | 25.4 | 32.5 | ▲ 7.1 |
Key figures of FISHING CACTUS, fiscal years 2021 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 July 2026.
What happened to FISHING CACTUS?
What happened at FISHING CACTUS in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Bruno Urbain stepped down as director. NBB
- Novo Belgium Holding SA SA stepped down as director. NBB
- Laurent Grumiaux stepped down as director. NBB
- Wallimage SA SA stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2024: loss of € 10,472. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Novo Belgium Holding SA SA became a director. NBB
- Wallimage SA SA became a director. NBB
- Bruno Urbain became a director. NBB
In short
From € 444,203 profit in 2021 to € 10,472 loss in 2024.
Paid € 64,234 in corporate taxes since 2021.
Best year ever: 2021, with € 444,203 profit.
On average € 77,900 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 NOVO BELGIUM HOLDING comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
FISHING CACTUSBehind FISHING CACTUS is Fonds d'investissement dans les entreprises culturelles 'St' SA. The shares are held by NOVO BELGIUM HOLDING (19.6%). It owns 49% of Swarms Entertainment itself.
Directors
According to the 2024 annual accounts
Fonds d'investissement dans les entreprises culturelles 'St' SA
Director
Also active at: TEMPORA, STRICTLY SONGS, LEVITA, Lucky Way Game
Bruno Urbain
Director
since 2023 · until 2029
Director · represented by Dominique Janne
Also active at: FLAGEY, VICAL, K2, MARIE - AVENUE LOUISE, HELIOPOLIS, ME WE Project, MARS ENTERTAINMENT, K-LINE +13 more
since 2023 · until 2029
since 2023 · until 2029
Director · represented by Odile Malevé
Also active at: Belga-Films, nWave Studios, The Pack, N-ZONE, CYANVIEW, Belgian Heroes, Lucky Way Game, SUPERBE +10 more
since 2023 · until 2029
Shareholders
19.6%
Participations
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Avenue Guibal et Devillez 1
7000 Mons
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 4 companies are registered at this address.
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Website
Technologies
Hosting & Email
Email provider
OVH Mail
Hosting
OVH, FR
DNS
OVH DNS
Website info
Features
Security
Network
Details
- Company number
- 0899.986.685
- VAT number
- BE 0899.986.685
- Registered office
- Avenue Guibal et Devillez 1, 7000 Mons
- Names & denominations
- FISHING CACTUS
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 1 July 2008
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 5 Dec 2025
- Contact
- fishingcactus.be
- Activities · NACE
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