What does PARA INDUSTRIES do?

PARA INDUSTRIES is a painting contractor in Gent. Public Limited, started on 1 January 1968, 1 establishment.

What is the address of PARA INDUSTRIES?

The registered office of PARA INDUSTRIES is located at Knippegroen 40, 9042 Gent.

Is PARA INDUSTRIES still active?

Yes. According to the CBE (29 October 2026) PARA INDUSTRIES is active, legal situation “Normale toestand”, started on 1 January 1968.

Is PARA INDUSTRIES registered on Peppol?

Yes, PARA INDUSTRIES is registered on the Peppol network with ID 0208:0400100848.

What is the enterprise number of PARA INDUSTRIES?

The enterprise number of PARA INDUSTRIES is BE0400100848.

When was PARA INDUSTRIES founded?

PARA INDUSTRIES was founded on 1 January 1968.

Who are the directors of PARA INDUSTRIES?

According to the 2025 annual accounts, the directors of PARA INDUSTRIES are: Lippens N Management BV, WP Consulting BV.

Is PARA INDUSTRIES a reliable company?

Databakkes does not pass judgement; this is what the sources say: Active according to the CBE since 1 January 1968; 4 annual accounts filed, latest fiscal year 2025; 2 directors known from the annual account.

How much profit did PARA INDUSTRIES make in 2025?

PARA INDUSTRIES posted a profit after taxes of € 289,957 in financial year 2025.

What is the revenue of PARA INDUSTRIES?

As a small company, PARA INDUSTRIES is not required to publish revenue in its annual accounts. In financial year 2025, its added value was € 2,191,569.

How much does an employee at PARA INDUSTRIES earn?

The average wage cost per full-time employee at PARA INDUSTRIES was € 64,900 in 2025: staff costs of € 1.5 million for 23.5 FTE, according to the annual account at the National Bank. That is the employer's cost, not net pay.

How many employees does PARA INDUSTRIES have?

According to the 2025 annual accounts, PARA INDUSTRIES has 23.5 full-time equivalents (FTE).

PARA INDUSTRIES (Public Limited) - Gent - BE0400100848

Dossier PARA INDUSTRIES, printed on 29 October 2026 from databakkes.be/en/0400100848/para-industries. Sources: CBE, National Bank of Belgium, Belgian Official Gazette.

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Signals from the annual accounts, the CBE and the Official Gazette, each with its threshold and source. No score, no verdict.

Shrinking team NBB

FTE fell two years in a row, from 29.4 to 23.5.

Financials

Financial year 2025

PARA INDUSTRIES from Gent, company number BE0400100848, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 289,957 after tax. For that financial year PARA INDUSTRIES recorded a gross margin of € 2.2 million and equity of € 1.3 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -820,583 to € 289,957. Profitable, and profit is growing. 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 July 9, 2026.

What it is worth Growing

€ 1.3 million

▲ 27% vs 2024

Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.

Profit Growing

€ 289,957

▲ still € 820,583 loss in 2024

Profit after tax over the fiscal year.

Cash in the bank

€ 2,314

Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.

Where the profit goes Growing

Stays in the company

No dividend for 2025. Retained profit grew to € 1.2 million.

People and assets in 2025

Full-time equivalents

23.5

▼ 5.3 vs 2024

Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.

Wage cost

€ 1.5 million

▲ 2% vs 2024

€ 64,900 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.

Vehicles and equipment

€ 64,649

▼ 55% vs 2024

Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.

Debts at end 2025

Bank debt

€ 34,634

Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.

Owed to suppliers

€ 918,048

▼ 8% vs 2024

Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.

Taxes and wages

€ 99,121

▼ 15% vs 2024

Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.

Key figures per fiscal year Download key figures (CSV)
	2022	2023	2024	2025	Change 2024 → 2025
Gross margin	€ 2,722,834 Gross margin 2022: € 2,722,834 First fiscal year in the series	€ 1,643,344 Gross margin 2023: € 1,643,344 ▼ 40% vs 2022 (€ 2,722,834) Unfavourable step	€ 1,444,483 Gross margin 2024: € 1,444,483 ▼ 12% vs 2023 (€ 1,643,344) Unfavourable step	€ 2,191,569 Gross margin 2025: € 2,191,569 ▲ 52% vs 2024 (€ 1,444,483) Favourable step	▲ 52%
Profit after taxes	€ 1,246,320 Profit after taxes 2022: € 1,246,320 First fiscal year in the series	€ -173,897 Profit after taxes 2023: € -173,897 ▼ € 1.4 million vs 2022 (€ 1,246,320) Unfavourable step	€ -820,583 Profit after taxes 2024: € -820,583 ▼ € 646,686 vs 2023 (€ -173,897) Unfavourable step	€ 289,957 Profit after taxes 2025: € 289,957 ▲ € 1.1 million vs 2024 (€ -820,583) Favourable step	▲ € 1.1 million
Equity	€ 2,051,888 Equity 2022: € 2,051,888 First fiscal year in the series	€ 1,877,991 Equity 2023: € 1,877,991 ▼ 8% vs 2022 (€ 2,051,888) Unfavourable step	€ 1,057,408 Equity 2024: € 1,057,408 ▼ 44% vs 2023 (€ 1,877,991) Unfavourable step	€ 1,347,365 Equity 2025: € 1,347,365 ▲ 27% vs 2024 (€ 1,057,408) Favourable step	▲ 27%
Total debts	€ 1,117,892 Total debts 2022: € 1,117,892 First fiscal year in the series	€ 1,995,089 Total debts 2023: € 1,995,089 ▲ 78% vs 2022 (€ 1,117,892) Unfavourable step	€ 2,297,279 Total debts 2024: € 2,297,279 ▲ 15% vs 2023 (€ 1,995,089) Unfavourable step	€ 1,070,778 Total debts 2025: € 1,070,778 ▼ 53% vs 2024 (€ 2,297,279) Favourable step	▼ 53%
Cash	€ 391,309 Cash 2022: € 391,309 First fiscal year in the series	€ 156,464 Cash 2023: € 156,464 ▼ 60% vs 2022 (€ 391,309) Unfavourable step	-	€ 2,314 Cash 2025: € 2,314 First fiscal year in the series
Land & buildings	€ 105,721 Land & buildings 2022: € 105,721 First fiscal year in the series	€ 99,166 Land & buildings 2023: € 99,166 ▼ 6% vs 2022 (€ 105,721) Unchanged	€ 111,130 Land & buildings 2024: € 111,130 ▲ 12% vs 2023 (€ 99,166) Unchanged	€ 235,264 Land & buildings 2025: € 235,264 ▲ 112% vs 2024 (€ 111,130) Unchanged	▲ 112%
Retained profit	€ 1,940,309 Retained profit 2022: € 1,940,309 First fiscal year in the series	€ 1,766,412 Retained profit 2023: € 1,766,412 ▼ 9% vs 2022 (€ 1,940,309) Unfavourable step	€ 945,829 Retained profit 2024: € 945,829 ▼ 46% vs 2023 (€ 1,766,412) Unfavourable step	€ 1,235,786 Retained profit 2025: € 1,235,786 ▲ 31% vs 2024 (€ 945,829) Favourable step	▲ 31%
Bank debt	€ 101,666 Bank debt 2022: € 101,666 First fiscal year in the series	€ 41,213 Bank debt 2023: € 41,213 ▼ 59% vs 2022 (€ 101,666) Favourable step	€ 34,634 Bank debt 2024: € 34,634 ▼ 16% vs 2023 (€ 41,213) Favourable step	€ 34,634 Bank debt 2025: € 34,634 Unchanged (€ 34,634) Unchanged
Balance sheet total	€ 3,169,780 Balance sheet total 2022: € 3,169,780 First fiscal year in the series	€ 3,873,079 Balance sheet total 2023: € 3,873,079 ▲ 22% vs 2022 (€ 3,169,780) Unchanged	€ 3,354,687 Balance sheet total 2024: € 3,354,687 ▼ 13% vs 2023 (€ 3,873,079) Unchanged	€ 2,418,142 Balance sheet total 2025: € 2,418,142 ▼ 28% vs 2024 (€ 3,354,687) Unchanged	▼ 28%
Employees (FTE)	18.4 Employees (FTE) 2022: 18.4 First fiscal year in the series	29.4 Employees (FTE) 2023: 29.4 ▲ 11 vs 2022 (18.4) Unchanged	28.8 Employees (FTE) 2024: 28.8 ▼ 0.6 vs 2023 (29.4) Unchanged	23.5 Employees (FTE) 2025: 23.5 ▼ 5.3 vs 2024 (28.8) Unchanged	▼ 5.3

Key figures of PARA INDUSTRIES, 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 PARA INDUSTRIES?

What happened at PARA INDUSTRIES in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:

2032 WP Consulting BV stepped down as director. NBB
2029 Lippens N Management BV stepped down as director. NBB
Jul 9, 2026 New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 289,957. Source: NBB ↗
2026 WP Consulting BV became a director. NBB
2024 Lippens N Management BV became a director. NBB
Jan 1, 1968 Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
Mar 1, 1946 New establishment in Gent. KBO

In short

From € 1.2 million profit in 2022 to € 289,957 profit in 2025.

Paid € 398,324 in corporate taxes since 2022.

Best year ever: 2022, with € 1.2 million profit.

On average € 93,300 of value added per employee in 2025.

Original PDFs at the National Bank ↗

Management

PARA 100%

The stake of PARA comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.

PARA INDUSTRIES

The shares are held by PARA (100%).

Directors

According to the 2025 annual accounts

Lippens N Management BV

Director · represented by Nicolas Lippens

Also active at: PARA, Staal Straal Weelde, Pattyn Albert & Cie, PETER VERSTUYF/HI-TECH-PROTECTION

since 2024 · until 2029

WP Consulting BV

Director · represented by Wouter Pauwels

Also active at: PARA, Staal Straal Weelde, Pattyn Albert & Cie, METAL FINISHING INDUSTRIES, TILKIN POWDER COATINGS, PETER VERSTUYF/HI-TECH-PROTECTION, IPD, IPC SERVICES

since 2026 · until 2032

Shareholders

PARA

100%

Participations

No participations in other companies reported.

Establishments

Establishment units

Physical locations of this company

Registered office

Knippegroen 40

9042 Gent

Who else lives here?

A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 1 companies are registered at this address.

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PARA same network

€ 311,984 gross margin · 2025

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Details

Company number

0400.100.848

VAT number

BE 0400.100.848

Registered office

Knippegroen 40, 9042 Gent

Names & denominations

PARA INDUSTRIES

Enterprise type

Rechtspersoon

Legal form

Public limited company

Legal situation

Normale toestand

Start date

1 January 1968

Peppol

Active · Active since 15 Dec 2025

Contact

[email protected]

Activities · NACE

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