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Cera

Active Risk: not assessed
Cooperative companyfounded 1935active for 91 yearsMuntstraat 1, 3000 Leuven, BelgiumKBO/BCE: BE 0403.581.960
Summary

Cera is a financial institution; the bankruptcy model is trained on trading and manufacturing companies and does not apply here. The 2025 annual accounts show equity of €3.25bn and a net result of €185.4m. Equity is growing by about 7.3% per year across the filed financial years. Its solvency ranks better than 92% of 3,009 sector peers (NACE 64, financial year 2025). The company has been active since 1935 and the Belgian Official Gazette contains no insolvency or warning signals.

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Directors

Directors
1 director, 2 in day-to-day management, no change since 2026

Board 1

Cera Beheersmaatschappij
Statutory director · since 09-06-2007 · Legal entity
Current
1 not recently confirmed
Still in office according to the deeds, but no deed of the last six years confirms the mandate. Mandates like this have often ended since, in a deed we have not read yet.
Franky Cyriel Depickere
Director · since 15-09-2006
Not recently confirmed

Day-to-day management 2

Marc DE CEUSTER
Lid van het comité van dagelijks bestuur · since 18-05-2023
Current
Frederik Vandepitte
Lid van het comité van dagelijks bestuur · since 01-02-2024
Current

Statutory auditor 1

BV PwC Bedrijfsrevisoren
Statutory auditor · since 31-07-2025 · permanent representative: Damien Walgrave
Current
Derived from published Gazette deeds. The KBO keeps the official list of office holders; we do not read it, so the two can differ. See the directors and other office holders in the KBO →

Mandate history

10 people since 2004, 5 in office
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  • Board
  • Day-to-day management
  • Statutory auditor
  • not recently confirmed
  • began earlier
Mandates per person, with start and end dates
Name Functions and periods
Cera Beheersmaatschappij
  • Statutory manager, from 09-06-2007 to date
Marc DE CEUSTER
  • Lid van het comité van dagelijks bestuur, from 18-05-2023 to date
Frederik Vandepitte
  • Lid van het comité van dagelijks bestuur, from 01-02-2024 to date
BV PwC Bedrijfsrevisoren
  • Statutory auditor, from 31-07-2025 to date
Franky Cyriel Depickere
  • Board, from 15-09-2006 not ended, last confirmed 03-07-2006
CERA BEHEERSMAATSCHAPPIJ - CERA SOCIETE DE GESTION
  • Lid van het comité van het dagelijks bestuur, until 16-06-2026
KPMG Bedrijfsrevisoren BV
  • Statutory auditor, from 12-06-2004 to 31-07-2025
Katelijn Callewaert
  • Lid van het comité van dagelijks bestuur, from 03-08-2016 to 18-05-2023
Luc Discry
  • Lid van het comité van dagelijks bestuur, until 03-08-2016
Rik Donckels
  • Board, until 14-09-2006
See the board, name and registered office on a given date →

The directors' other companies

1 current director with another company that went bankrupt, was dissolved or struck off

1 other company of this director went bankrupt (2004).

Source: Belgian Official Gazette (bankruptcies, judicial dissolutions, board mandates), FPS Economy (strike-offs) and the KBO register. A bankruptcy, dissolution or strike-off says nothing about the director's part in it. Only boards we have read from the Gazette; other companies may still be missing.

Owners and capital

Owners

1 owner

Chain of control

  1. Cera Ancora 100%
  2. CERA BEHEERSMAATSCHAPPIJ - CERA SOCIETE DE GESTION 100%
  3. Cera

Highest known parent: Cera Ancora. The sources do not say who stands above it.

Owners 1

According to the 2025 annual accounts of Cera and those of the other companies, the acts in the Belgian Official Gazette and the LEI register. Annual accounts state the shareholders that notified the company under article 7:225 of the Code of Companies and Associations and the parent companies that consolidate it. The register of ultimate beneficial owners (UBO) is not public: who ultimately stands behind a natural person or a foreign parent is not stated here. A company that does not include these statements in its annual accounts, or does not have to, is not listed.

Capital and shareholders

Capital over the years
  1. 18-07-2022 Capital stated in 3 acts · €36,500,000
  2. 05-07-2013 Capital increase of €32,500,000 · to €36,500,000

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