How big is The Ecological Entrepreneur?

Around 13 full-time equivalents (financial year 2025).

Which sectors does The Ecological Entrepreneur work for?

Industry & manufacturing, Logistics & transport, Food & beverage.

Review: The Ecological Entrepreneur

Q: What is The Ecological Entrepreneur specialised in?

Marketing strategy, Dashboards & reporting, Data science & analytics (incl. predictive modelling).

The Ecological Entrepreneur, opgericht in 2020, is een strategiebureau uit Antwerpen. De bezetting ligt rond 13 VTE. De dienstverlening draait om strategie en data & analytics.

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: € 1,01 mln gross margin, growth -14% against a sector median of -14%.

Shrinking

MarginEBITDA / gross margin · value-added coverage

2022202320242025

The Ecological EntrepreneurSector median

EBITDA margin 19%, sector median 36,9%. Value-added coverage 1,23 (median 1,53).

Below sector level

Revenue per headGross margin per FTE, against payroll cost

€ 79.917

Against a payroll cost of € 64.584 per FTE. The ratio between the two is the coverage rate above.

No data

Yield levelYield per hour worked, against payroll cost

€ 47

21.634 hours worked, 1.703 per FTE. Against that sits € 38 of payroll cost per hour worked, leaving € 9 for premises, equipment, depreciation and profit.

No data

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: 7,1 months (median 9,2 mo). Equity in the latest year: € 488.423.

Adequate buffer

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

Cash € 38.995. Liquidity ratio 3,34: current assets cover short-term debt in full. Solvency 74,1%.

Amply covered

Payment behaviourTowards suppliers and towards the NBB

Trade payables correspond to 20 days of supplier credit, sector median 102. The accounts were filed 180 days after closing; the legal deadline is seven months.

Pays and files on time

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 Sep 2026 · Google Autocomplete
Zichtbaarheid verschoven · 1 Aug 2026 · Google Autocomplete
Board change · 27 Mar 2025 · Staatsblad
Appointments or resignations on the board. Routine during growth, succession or a new partner. Ask about it when several changes follow each other closely.

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

Profitable in every one of the last 4 years
Strong buffer: 7,1 months of payroll in equity
Healthy working capital (current ratio 3,34)

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	€ 123.053	€ 697.320+466,7%	€ 1,18 mln+69,3%	€ 1,01 mln-14%
EBITDA	€ 48.358	€ 166.183	€ 323.959	€ 192.711
EBITDA margin	39,3%	23,8%	27,4%	19%
Staff
FTE	6,0	10,0+66,7%	13,6+36%	12,7-6,6%
Gross margin per FTE	€ 20.509	€ 69.732	€ 86.805	€ 79.917
Payroll cost per FTE	€ 12.328	€ 52.923	€ 62.698	€ 64.584
Balance sheet
Equity	€ 306.266	€ 239.252	€ 380.280	€ 488.423
Cash	€ 271.235	€ 165.873	€ 171.395	€ 38.995
Liquidity ratio	3,22	1,63	2,39	3,34

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 29/06/2026. 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 3 services

Strategy & Insights

Marketing strategy

Data, Measurement & Governance

Dashboards & reporting Data science & analytics (incl. predictive modelling)

Sector focus

Bedrijven, sectorfederaties en organisaties (industrie, KMO's, logistiek, food) in ESG-transitie

From our own research. The agency hasn't listed its sectors yet.

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

1

People 17 people mapped

A broad team with no clear centre of gravity — strategy, account & project and development carry roughly equal weight.

MO

Marit Overbeeke

Founder & COO

SD

Sebastiaan De Block

Founder & CEO

DC

Dries Cruyskens

Sustainable Developer

DJ

Dries Jacobson

Carbon Footprint Consultant

EB

Elisa Baelus

Sustainable Content Writer

FV

Femke Van Riet

Quality & Service Excellence Manager

FV

Flore Vandemoortele

Sustainability Consultant

GS

Gill Steens

Sustainable Developer

HS

Hannelore Standaert

Sustainability Project Lead

LV

Lisa van de Wijgerd

People & Organisational Development Manager

MC

Marie Claeys

Sustainability Consultant

MS

Marie Soleil

Sustainable Project Manager

MD

Melissa De Clippel

Sustainability Project Lead

PA

Prashant Agarwal

Sustainability Consultant

SN

Senne Note

Climate Project Consultant

TS

Tatjana Simons

Sustainability Consultant

TV

Titus Verboven

Sustainable Designer

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

€ 64.584

Team composition

12,7 FTE

80% women
20% men

€ 64.584

All 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

77,2%

Inflow 2025

43,3%

5,5 FTE in, 9,8 FTE out

Net team change

-4,3 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.