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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 19 to 14.3.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Van de Calseyde from Gent, company number BE0400059078, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 427,640 after tax. For that financial year Van de Calseyde recorded a gross margin of € 1.8 million and equity of € 4.9 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 749,117 to € 427,640. The company is profitable. The buffer is growing. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on June 12, 2026.
€ 4.9 million
▲ 4% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 427,640
▼ 43% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 2.2 million
▼ 10% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 215,208 paid out
50 % of the profit went to the shareholders, mostly to ARLO (100 % of the shares). That is where the money ends up.
People and assets in 2025
14.3
▼ 1.7 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.3 million
▲ 3% vs 2024
€ 89,500 per full-time equivalent. Payroll staff only. What the director pays themselves is already netted into the gross margin and is not shown separately in the accounts.
€ 3,455
▼ 82% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 394,281
▼ 25% vs 2024
€ 133,807 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 3 years.
€ 520,943
▲ 27% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 196,271
▲ 14% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 2,692,508 | € 2,700,579 | € 2,193,117 | € 1,787,667 | ▼ 18% |
| Profit after taxes | € 669,053 | € 867,815 | € 749,117 | € 427,640 | ▼ 43% |
| Equity | € 3,923,846 | € 4,791,661 | € 4,730,275 | € 4,942,707 | ▲ 4% |
| Total debts | € 1,659,742 | € 1,509,668 | € 1,949,301 | € 1,593,052 | ▼ 18% |
| Cash | € 497,354 | € 1,178,585 | € 2,413,082 | € 2,176,759 | ▼ 10% |
| Land & buildings | € 67,307 | € 62,349 | - | - | |
| Retained profit | € 3,369,276 | € 4,237,091 | € 4,195,107 | € 4,407,539 | ▲ 5% |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 0 | € 642,857 | € 215,208 | ▼ 67% |
| Bank debt | € 853,066 | € 726,279 | € 523,365 | € 394,281 | ▼ 25% |
| Balance sheet total | € 5,583,588 | € 6,301,329 | € 6,679,576 | € 6,535,758 | ▼ 2% |
| Employees (FTE) | 20.1 | 19 | 16 | 14.3 | ▼ 1.7 |
Key figures of Van de Calseyde, fiscal years 2022 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2026) expected before 31 July 2027.
What happened to Van de Calseyde?
What happened at Van de Calseyde in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 427,640 (▼ 43% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
- New establishment in Gent. KBO
In short
From € 669,053 profit in 2022 to € 427,640 profit in 2025.
Paid € 826,065 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 867,815 profit.
On average € 125,000 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of ARLO comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
Van de CalseydeBehind Van de Calseyde are KIWI BV and ARCADE BV. The shares are held by ARLO (100%). It owns 100% of Verbeemen D.S. itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Louis Van de Calseyde
Also active at: DONSATELIER, VERBEEMEN D.S., ARLO, VDCI
Director · represented by Arnaud Van de Calseyde
Also active at: DONSATELIER, VERBEEMEN D.S., ARLO, VDCI
Shareholders
100%
Participations
100%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Afrikalaan 289
9000 Gent
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 5 companies are registered at this address.
All companies at this address →What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0400.059.078
- VAT number
- BE 0400.059.078
- Registered office
- Afrikalaan 289, 9000 Gent
- Names & denominations
- Van de Calseyde
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 14 June 1963
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 6 Oct 2025
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