What is Like a virgin specialised in?

Brand strategy & positioning, Customer value propositions & business development, Marketing strategy, Brand identity & design, Campaign concepts & big ideas, Copywriting & long-form content.

How big is Like a virgin?

Around 15 full-time equivalents (financial year 2025).

Who are the clients of Like a virgin?

Among others Vandemoortele, BOEMM, Helioscreen, Yitch, Hi Flanders.

Review: Like a virgin

Like a Virgin, opgericht in 2013, is een full-service bureau uit Kortrijk. De bezetting ligt rond 15 VTE. Het aanbod bestrijkt strategie, branding & identity . Sectoren waar het bureau vaak werkt: brede b2b/b2c en KMO's in West- en Oost-Vlaanderen.

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

2022202320242025

Latest year: € 1,11 mln gross margin, growth -10,4% against a sector median of +1,7%.

Shrinking

MarginEBITDA / gross margin · value-added coverage

2022202320242025

Like a virginSector median

EBITDA margin 5,5%, sector median 23,9%. Value-added coverage 1,06 (median 1,27). Value-added coverage sits in the sector-wide grey zone (0.95-1.15): context, not an alarm.

Below sector level

Revenue per headGross margin per FTE, against payroll cost

€ 72.783

Median (2025) € 78.251

Against a payroll cost of € 68.225 per FTE. The ratio between the two is the coverage rate above.

Around the median

Yield levelYield per hour worked, against payroll cost

€ 87

Median (2025) € 49

12.741 hours worked, 833 per FTE. Against that sits € 82 of payroll cost per hour worked, leaving € 5 for premises, equipment, depreciation and profit.

Above 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: 12,3 months (median 5,8 mo). Equity in the latest year: € 1,07 mln.

Adequate buffer

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

Cash € 183.025. Liquidity ratio 3,37: current assets cover short-term debt in full. Solvency 56,5%.

Amply covered

Payment behaviourTowards suppliers and towards the NBB

Trade payables correspond to 91 days of supplier credit, sector median 54. The accounts were filed 211 days after closing; the legal deadline is seven months.

Pays slower than average

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

No serious signals

Signals in the last 24 months

Zichtbaarheid verschoven · 1 Nov 2026 · Google Autocomplete
Zichtbaarheid verschoven · 1 Oct 2026 · Google Autocomplete
Zichtbaarheid verschoven · 1 Sep 2026 · Google Autocomplete
Zichtbaarheid verschoven · 1 Aug 2026 · Google Autocomplete
Zichtbaarheid verschoven · 1 Aug 2026 · Google Autocomplete
Registered office moved · 25 Sep 2025 · Staatsblad
The registered office relocated. Usually just a new office.
+ 2 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

Strong buffer: 12,3 months of payroll in equity
Team grew (+3,4% FTE in the latest year)
Healthy working capital (current ratio 3,37)
Equity was earned, not injected (reserves 6,1× the capital contributed)
Comfortable cash position: 64 days of payroll
Turnover below the median (15,7%)

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	€ 1,22 mln	€ 1,38 mln+13,9%	€ 1,24 mln-10,2%	€ 1,11 mln-10,4%
EBITDA	€ 431.450	€ 559.565	€ 347.670	€ 60.851
EBITDA margin	35,5%	40,4%	28%	5,5%
Staff
FTE	14,4	14,3-0,7%	14,8+3,5%	15,3+3,4%
Gross margin per FTE	€ 84.406	€ 96.830	€ 83.974	€ 72.783
Payroll cost per FTE	€ 54.089	€ 57.085	€ 60.166	€ 68.225
Balance sheet
Equity	€ 1,13 mln	€ 1,43 mln	€ 1,04 mln	€ 1,07 mln
Cash	€ 54.877	€ 195.789	€ 200.935	€ 183.025
Liquidity ratio	2,72	3,07	2,50	3,37

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 27/01/2026. 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 8 services

Strategy & Insights

Brand strategy & positioning Customer value propositions & business development Marketing strategy

Branding & Design

Brand identity & design

Advertising & Campaigns

Campaign concepts & big ideas

Content & Production

Copywriting & long-form content Video production

Digital Experience & Tech

Website development

Sector focus

Finance & insuranceTechnology & softwareTelecomAutomotive & mobilityFood & beverageHealth & pharmaEnergy & utilitiesReal estate & constructionB2B services

Publicly known clients

VandemoorteleBOEMMHelioscreenYitchHi Flanders

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

1

People 16 people mapped

We mapped 16 people, but this agency keeps job titles to itself — the team page sticks to names. Who does what is best asked over coffee.

B

Birgen

C

Christof

C

Claudine

D

Daan

E

Emiel

H

Hannes

J

Joeri

K

Kim

K

Kristel

L

Laetitia

L

Lies

L

Liese

L

Luna

N

Nick

R

Robin

S

Sven

Based on public profiles. Something wrong? Let us know.

2

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

€ 68.225

+13% versus the median

Team composition

15,3 FTE

52% women
48% men

€ 68.225

Median Full-service bureau (2025) € 60.368All 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.

3

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

15,7%

Median for this type of agency (2025): 31,1%

Inflow 2025

13,1%

2,0 FTE in, 2,4 FTE out

Net team change

-0,4 FTE

2022202320242025

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.