How to do it
- Search for a company and open its page. You land on the Overview tab.
- At the top: the name, status and main activity. Any warnings follow right below.
- On the left, in the About the company card, what the company says about itself on its own website and the key details from the CBE. On the right, the figures of the latest year and what happened.
- Scroll on for the figures of the latest financial year, activities, board, establishments, neighbours at the same address and e-invoicing.
- Click Figures or Board at the top for all annual accounts or the full board.
The tabs of the company page
The tabs stay at the top while you scroll. Once the header is out of view, the company name appears in the bar, so you always know where you are.
- Overview: identity, activities, board at a glance, establishments, address and e-invoicing. For everyone.
- Figures: the annual accounts over the years, with the latest year next to the name. Only shown when filed accounts exist.
- Board: directors, audit, owners, group and holdings, with the number of mandates next to the name. With Pro.
- Publications: the publications in the Belgian Official Gazette, with their number next to the name. Only shown when there are publications.
The header
The official data comes from the register of companies and the Belgian Official Gazette.
Next to the name is the logo from the company's own website; without one we show the initials. Below: the status (Active, Stopped, Bankruptcy or Judicial reorganisation) and the main activity.
For a stopped company you see "per CBE update of" with a date: the CBE open data does not include the official closing date, so we show the day the closure appeared in the CBE.
- Copy VAT number: copies the number as BE0123456789.
- Add to list: save the company in a list and follow changes. With Pro (free account: 1 list of 10 companies, email on Mondays).
- Download: the financial report, the company page as PDF and (on Figures and Board) the figures as CSV. With Pro.
- Compare: puts the company next to its three closest competitors. With Pro.
Warnings
If there is something you should know, a line appears under the header, for example "2 warnings". Click Show for the details and the source. Serious: a bankruptcy or judicial reorganisation. Worth attention: for example negative equity, three loss years in a row, liquidity below 1 for three years, or accounts filed late or not at all.
Key details
Enterprise number, VAT number, legal form, founding date with age, registered office, any legal situation, the capital and the website. Other names (abbreviation, trade name, name in another language), email, phone and the rest are under "More details". Most lines have a copy button. Click the address to open it in Google Maps. The official sources are at the bottom of the About the company card.
Source: CBE Open Data, updated every morning.
About this company
A short description of what the company does, its website, email addresses, phone numbers and social media, taken from its own website. The description is written in two sentences by an AI model, based only on the text of that website, always in Dutch.
If "registered in the CBE" appears next to the website, we could not confirm that the site really belongs to this company (for example because the enterprise number is not on it).
Figures of the latest year
Four tiles: turnover (or gross margin when the format has no turnover), profit, equity and staff (or solvency). With Pro you also see the change from the year before and a small trend line. Click a tile to go to the Figures tab.
The blocks below, in order
With Pro you can move or hide these blocks (see "Your own layout"). By default:
- Activities and compare: the NACE codes from the CBE with the main activity highlighted. Click an activity to see other companies with the same activity nearby. On the right, pick a company to compare with.
- Board: up to five mandates and the parent company, from the latest annual accounts. Without Pro, only the number of mandates.
- Publications in the Belgian Official Gazette: the latest publications, if any. The full list is on the Publications tab.
- Establishments: each establishment unit with number, address and start date.
- At the same address: other companies with their registered office or an establishment at this address. Useful to spot a group, a business centre or a domiciliation address.
- E-invoicing and VAT: checked live when you open the page. Is the company reachable via Peppol, with which Peppol address, which documents does it receive, and is the VAT number valid in VIES.
- Quick answers: short answers to the questions people ask most (VAT number, address, active, e-invoices, activity, profit).
Sole traders and shielded pages
For a business of a natural person we only show the municipality, no street or establishment addresses, and no Figures and Board tabs. With Pro you see the full address, for your own lookup only. A company that asked for shielding gets a limited page without address, contact details, website and board.