Where is Absolute Agency located?

In Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, Belgium.

How big is Absolute Agency?

Around 5 full-time equivalents (financial year 2025).

Review: Absolute Agency

Q: Who are the clients of Absolute Agency?

Among others Halles Saint-Géry, Ores, Sibelga, Anders Brouwerij, AXA Immo, BEUC, Partena Professional, AG Residential, Altior, SPF, Gymna, Traxio, TG2, Mudia, UCB.

Absolute Agency bestaat sinds 2005 en profileert zich als brandingbureau uit Sint-Jans-Molenbeek. De bezetting ligt rond 5 VTE.

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How this agency makes money

Revenue, margin and what an hour of work brings in. Everything on the earning side sits together here.

Revenue trendgross margin per financial year

2022202320242025

Latest year: € 89.391 gross margin, growth -58,3% against a sector median of +6,6%.

Shrinking

MarginEBITDA / gross margin · value-added coverage

2022202320242025

Absolute AgencySector median

EBITDA margin 7,8%, sector median 32,2%. Value-added coverage 1,09 (median 1,29). Value-added coverage sits in the sector-wide grey zone (0.95-1.15): context, not an alarm.

Below sector level

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Can the agency take a hit

Buffer, cash position and payment behaviour side by side, so you can see where they disagree.

Bufferequity in months of payroll

Buffer: 8,8 months (median 6,3 mo). Equity in the latest year: € 58.523.

Adequate buffer

Cash positionAvailable cash, and whether it covers short-term debt

Cash € 68.691. Liquidity ratio 2,23: current assets cover short-term debt in full. Solvency 32,2%.

Amply covered

Payment behaviourTowards suppliers and towards the NBB

Trade payables correspond to 183 days of supplier credit, sector median 74. The accounts were filed 176 days after closing; the legal deadline is seven months.

Pays slower than average

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Signals and strengths

Events from the CBE and the Official Gazette over the past 24 months, plus positive markers derived from the figures.

Continuity

No serious signals

Signals in the last 24 months

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Click a signal for a plain-language explanation. Each signal is a fact from a public source, without the agency's own context. Best to ask them directly.

What this agency does well

Strong buffer: 8,8 months of payroll in equity
Healthy working capital (current ratio 2,23)
Equity was earned, not injected (reserves 10,9× the capital contributed)
Comfortable cash position: 314 days of payroll

Each point is a fact from the filed annual accounts, measured against the same thresholds and sector medians as the signals above.

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All the figures

Reference material, not a starting point. Expand it if you want to read the series yourself.

4 financial years, 2022 to 2025Result, staff and balance sheet

	2022	2023	2024	2025
Result
Gross margin	€ 287.474	€ 160.896-44%	€ 214.246+33,2%	€ 89.391-58,3%
EBITDA	€ -102.879	€ -140.405	€ 117.645	€ 6.936
EBITDA margin	-35,8%	-87,3%	54,9%	7,8%
Staff
FTE	6,6	4,9-25,8%	-	-
Gross margin per FTE	€ 43.557	€ 32.836	-	-
Payroll cost per FTE	€ 57.536	€ 58.249	-	-
Balance sheet
Equity	€ 150.746	€ -43.832	€ 56.712	€ 58.523
Cash	€ 41.213	-	€ 81.954	€ 68.691
Liquidity ratio	1,66	0,73	1,86	2,23

Payroll cost per FTE comes from the social report where available, otherwise from the Remuneration line. Both are gross costs including employer contributions.

What this factsheet does not know

How good the work is. Figures do not measure creativity, strategy or chemistry.
How the client portfolio is spread. Concentration is not in the accounts.
Freelancers and subcontractors are not in the FTE figures. An agency with 40 staff may in practice run with 70 people.
This agency files an abbreviated or micro scheme and therefore publishes no staff data. Seniority, turnover and hourly level cannot be derived. This is entirely legal and says nothing about quality.
The figures cover financial year 2025, filed on 23/12/2025. At a fast-moving agency reality today may differ.

Based on publicly filed annual accounts (NBB) and official records (CBE, Belgian Official Gazette). An indication, not financial advice. Sector medians calculated on 2 Nov 2026. Sector medians based on financial year 2024: the last year for which nearly all accounts have been filed.

Coming soon

We're working on this part of the factsheet.

Sector focus

Energy & utilitiesReal estate & constructionFood & beverageB2B servicesHealth & pharma

Publicly known clients

Halles Saint-Géry, Ores, Sibelga, Anders Brouwerij, AXA Immo, BEUC, Partena Professional, AG Residential, Altior, SPF, Gymna, Traxio, TG2, Mudia, UCB

Based on IKAg research and public sources. Incomplete or outdated? Let us know.

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Will your team stay?

Inflow and outflow from the social report. This series only counts people on the payroll: freelancers who invoice do not appear in it. A low figure therefore means two very different things, a stable permanent team or a small core with heavy outsourcing. A high figure usually points to short contracts. Compare only within the same type of agency.

Exits 2023

118,4%

Median for this type of agency (2024): 33,9%

Inflow 2023

61,2%

3,0 FTE in, 5,8 FTE out

Net team change

-2,8 FTE

20222023

Figures for financial year 2023: in 2025 this agency published no inflow or outflow.

Exits are clearly above what is usual for this type of agency. That may reflect project-based staffing, but it is a reason to ask in the pitch how much of the proposed team was already here two years ago, and to contractually fix your permanent contacts.

Source: annual accounts and social reports (NBB), collected by IKAg. Financial year 2025. Calculations by IKAg; an indication, not financial advice. Sector medians based on financial year 2024: the last year for which nearly all accounts have been filed.