What is Brand Bites specialised in?

Brand strategy & positioning, Marketing strategy, Brand identity & design, Content strategy & editorial, Copywriting & long-form content, Organic social content.

How big is Brand Bites?

Around 3 full-time equivalents (financial year 2025).

Which sectors does Brand Bites work for?

Hospitality & tourism, Food & beverage.

Review: Brand Bites

Q: Who are the clients of Brand Bites?

Among others Butcher's store, Pakhuis, Sensi, De Blauwe Kiosk, Hof van Cleve, Bar Bask, La Quincaillerie, Taberna Bask, Opius distillery, Ferme Le Devant, Domaine Laudonie, Levi Party Rental, Cru versmarkt.

Brand Bites is een brandingbureau uit Gent, actief sinds 2014. Op de loonlijst staan ongeveer 4 voltijdse equivalenten. De focus ligt op strategie, branding & identiteit, social media en content & copy. Sectoren waar het bureau vaak werkt: horeca en food.

1

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

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Latest year: € 290.595 gross margin, growth -7,6% against a sector median of +6,6%.

Shrinking

MarginEBITDA / gross margin · value-added coverage

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Brand BitesSector median

EBITDA margin 15%, sector median 32,2%. Value-added coverage 1,18 (median 1,29).

Below sector level

Revenue per headGross margin per FTE, against payroll cost

€ 90.811

Median (2025) € 82.809

Against a payroll cost of € 76.704 per FTE. The ratio between the two is the coverage rate above.

Above the median

Yield levelYield per hour worked, against payroll cost

€ 49

Median (2025) € 48

5.885 hours worked, 1.839 per FTE. Against that sits € 42 of payroll cost per hour worked, leaving € 8 for premises, equipment, depreciation and profit.

Around the median

No hourly rate follows from this. Gross margin is already net of services and sundry goods, which mixes rebilled production with the agency's own overhead, and the accounts do not say how many hours were billable. Deriving a rate from this systematically understates it.

2

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: 2,5 months (median 6,3 mo). Equity in the latest year: € 51.483.

Thin buffer

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

Cash € 29.303. Liquidity ratio 0,75: current assets cover short-term debt not in full. Solvency 12,4%.

Not covered

Payment behaviourTowards suppliers and towards the NBB

Trade payables correspond to 78 days of supplier credit, sector median 68. The accounts were filed 243 days after closing; the legal deadline is seven months.

Filed late

3

Signals and strengths

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

Continuity

Points to ask about

Signals in the last 24 months

Zichtbaarheid verschoven · 1 Nov 2026 · Google Autocomplete
Zichtbaarheid verschoven · 1 Oct 2026 · Google Autocomplete
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Zichtbaarheid verschoven · 1 Sep 2026 · Google Autocomplete
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Late filing · 31 Aug 2026 · NBB
The annual accounts were filed after the statutory deadline. Over a third of the sector does this, usually because of the accountant's calendar. Rarely a story in itself.
+ 3 older signals within 24m

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

Margin per hour worked rose 2 years in a row

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.

5 financial years, 2021 to 2025Result, staff and balance sheet

	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
Result
Gross margin	€ 71.064	€ 214.614+202%	€ 240.006+11,8%	€ 314.439+31%	€ 290.595-7,6%
EBITDA	€ 26.377	€ 46.093	€ -6.518	€ 79.615	€ 43.609
EBITDA margin	37,1%	21,5%	-2,7%	25,3%	15%
Staff
FTE	0,7	3,5+400%	4,4+25,7%	3,6-18,2%	3,2-11,1%
Gross margin per FTE	€ 101.520	€ 61.318	€ 54.547	€ 87.344	€ 90.811
Payroll cost per FTE	€ 54.434	€ 47.640	€ 55.482	€ 64.849	€ 76.704
Balance sheet
Equity	€ -24.195	€ 6.158	€ -12.048	€ 34.340	€ 51.483
Cash	€ 10.071	€ 2.437	€ 42.487	€ 39.268	€ 29.303
Liquidity ratio	0,89	0,92	0,84	0,83	0,75

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.
The figures cover financial year 2025, filed on 31/08/2026. 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 2025: the last year for which nearly all accounts have been filed.

What the agency actually does 7 services

Strategy & Insights

Brand strategy & positioning Marketing strategy

Branding & Design

Brand identity & design

Content & Production

Content strategy & editorial Copywriting & long-form content

Social, Influencer & Community

Organic social content Social strategy & platform mix

Sector focus

Travel & hospitalityFood & beverage

Publicly known clients

Butcher's store, Pakhuis, Sensi, De Blauwe Kiosk, Hof van Cleve, Bar Bask, La Quincaillerie, Taberna Bask, Opius distillery, Ferme Le Devant, Domaine Laudonie, Levi Party Rental, Cru versmarkt

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

1

Seniors or juniors?

Payroll cost per FTE is the best public proxy for a team's experience level. Higher is not automatically better, but it says something about who sits at the table.

Payroll cost per FTE

€ 76.704

+26% versus the median

Team composition

3,2 FTE

€ 76.704

Median Brandingbureau (2025) € 60.980All agencies (2025) € 62.294

Read with care. Directors and partners invoicing through a management company are not in the payroll cost. At small agencies this skews the picture downwards considerably.

2

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 2025

62,5%

Median for this type of agency (2025): 38,9%

Inflow 2025

62,5%

2,0 FTE in, 2,0 FTE out

Net team change

0,0 FTE

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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 2025: the last year for which nearly all accounts have been filed.