How to do it
- Open a company page and click the Board tab at the top. The number next to it is the number of mandates.
- Choose the view at the top right: List, Network, Group or Timeline.
- Click a person for all their mandates in other companies, or a company to open its board in the same view.
- Want to show someone this view? Copy the address bar: the link opens in the view you chose.
Where do the company directors come from?
The publications themselves are in the Belgian Official Gazette.
From the latest annual accounts the company filed with the Central Balance Sheet Office of the National Bank. They list the directors, their role and the start and end date of their mandate, the statutory auditor or external accountant, the main shareholders and the holdings. At the top of the page you see which financial year it is, with a link to the accounts at the NBB.
We read the structured part of the accounts, not the PDF. Accounts that only exist as PDF are skipped: we then try the next filing.
If someone opens a company whose board we do not have yet, we read it right away in the background. You then see "We are reading the board from the latest annual accounts": check back in a moment.
The sections, in order
- Board: who sits on the board, with the role (manager, director, managing director, chair...), the permanent representative when the director is a company, and the start and end of the mandate. Ended mandates show with the Inactive or All filter. Under a name: "also in 3 other companies".
- Audit: the statutory auditor or the external accountant or bookkeeper.
- Owners: the parent company, the shareholders with their percentage, and companies that list this company as a holding in their own accounts.
- Group: the other holdings of the parent company, with this company highlighted.
- Holdings: the companies this company holds shares in, with the percentage.
- On other boards: the mandates this company itself holds on the boards of other companies.
Four views
- List: a table with mandate holder, role, permanent representative, start and end.
- Network: the company in the centre, the parent above, directors left and right, holdings below. Audit has a different colour. On your phone it becomes a tree.
- Group: the parent at the top, its holdings below, and this company's own holdings one level deeper.
- Timeline: one bar per mandate on a time axis with a line for today. Solid up to today, dotted to the end of the appointment. On your phone it becomes a list of events.
You only see views for which there is data: no timeline without start dates, no group without a parent or holdings.
Your choice is remembered
Nummo remembers your view on this device and, when you are signed in, in your profile, so it follows you to your other devices. It also applies on the person pages. The chosen view is in the link (for example ?als=netwerk): whoever opens that link sees the same.
A manager without a role or date?
Small companies often use the micro format. Directors sometimes appear there with only their name, without role or term. We then show them as "Mandate" with "no end date". If nobody is listed at all, you see "The latest annual accounts list no directors, shareholders or holdings".
What we do not show
Never the address of a person, even when it is in the accounts. No date of birth. The board and the person pages are not in search engines. Something wrong? Click "Let us know" at the bottom.
Free or Pro?
The Board tab, the person pages and searching for a person's name are part of Pro. Without Pro you see how many mandates are in the accounts, but not who.