Result
The result rose in 2025: different schema filed.
The result rose in 2025: different schema filed.
Green is investment, beige is depreciation. Machinery stands 33.8% higher than in 2024.
The last five annual accounts were filed 35 to 63 days before the end of the period.
Board changed. Latest change 01-07-2026 · 15 in office.
Higher solvency than 95% of companies in publishing. Sector median 45.9% · 325 companies.
The dashed line is the sector median: 0.1% across 1,282 companies (NACE 58, micro).
Fewer than 1 in 1,000 comparable companies go bankrupt within 12 months (an estimate).
The band follows from the bankruptcy probability. 10 more points roughly halve it.
| 75-100 | Excellent | under 0.55% |
| 60-74 | Healthy | 0.55% to 1.5% |
| 45-59 | Fair | 1.5% to 4.2% |
| 25-44 | Weak | 4.2% to 15.0% |
| 0-24 | Critical | over 15.0% |
Where the company stands within its band depends half on the bankruptcy probability and half on how it does against its sector peers (NACE 58, micro). It does better than 87% of them on solvency, 47% on liquidity, 27% on profitability and 52% on growth.
The bankruptcy probability was computed on 08-11-2026 by the bankruptcy model of 2 October 2026, which learns from Belgian bankruptcies and reads the registers, the annual accounts and the Belgian Official Gazette.
The probability rests on the annual accounts with balance sheet date 31-12-2025.
Of the companies with a bankruptcy probability in the very low class on 30-06-2025, 0.1% went bankrupt within twelve months.
Some facts cap the score, however low the probability. With negative or zero equity, a heavy loss, a special status in the KBO, one missing filing or accounts filed more than 90 days late, the score is Fair at most (59). With two missing filings, it is Weak at most (44). During a judicial reorganisation or at the company's end (bankruptcy, dissolution, liquidation), it is Critical at most (24).
Liquidity is ample, with a current ratio of 69.27 (63.59 in 2024), above the usual 1.5. Short-term debt is 0.2% and cash 2.3% of total assets. 0.2% of the assets are financed with debt and provisions.
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The scores and ratios are Checked's own calculations, not a credit decision.
The company filed its last 7 accounts on average 46 days before the deadline. In the sector (NACE 58), the median for financial year 2024 was 7 days before the deadline, and 37% of those companies filed late.
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Board & ownership| Company | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FONDS BAILLET LATOUR Brussels | - | - | 99.8% | 1 |
| EDITIONS CASTERMAN Brussels | €30.0m | -2.2% | 58.2% | 33 |
| INTERNATIONAL MERCHANDISING, PROMOTION AND SERVICES Rixensart | €19.6m | 9.1% | 39.7% | 34.3 |
| EDITIONS DUPUIS Charleroi | €37.1m | 1.6% | -8.4% | 50.7 |
| ZUIDNEDERLANDSE UITGEVERIJ Aartselaar | €14.8m | 40.5% | 86.4% | 44.9 |
| Standaard Uitgeverij Antwerp | €32.5m | 2.4% | 32.6% | 48.4 |
| DARGAUD - LOMBARD Sint-Gillis (bij-Brussel) | €50.4m | 7.1% | 67.2% | 50.8 |
These companies have the same main activity as FONDS BAILLET LATOUR: book publishing (NACE 58110). They are comparable in size and age: total assets between €19m and €84m, founded between 1946 and 1999.
FONDS BAILLET LATOUR files the abbreviated format. That format states no turnover. The gross margin fell from -€3.2m in 2008 to -€3.7m in 2025.
Sources: KBO register, filings at the National Bank, Belgian Official Gazette. Click a figure with a dotted line for the item and the filing.
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