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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 4 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
ETEX from Zaventem, company number BE0400454404, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 29.2 million after tax. For that financial year ETEX recorded revenue of € 58.7 million and equity of € 2.1 billion. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 159.2 million to € 29.2 million. The company is profitable. The company holds a healthy buffer. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on June 8, 2026.
€ 2.1 billion
▼ 1% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 29.2 million
▼ 82% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 112,101
▼ 32% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 85.3 million paid out
More than the year’s profit went to the shareholders; reserves fell.
People and assets in 2025
100.5
▼ 2.1 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 35.9 million
▲ 14% vs 2024
€ 357,600 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.
€ 274,158
▼ 19% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 1.2 billion
▼ 2% vs 2024
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 6.5 million
▼ 34% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 59 days on average.
€ 10.3 million
▼ 7% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 57,574,958 | € 59,977,938 | € 53,168,276 | € 58,655,320 | ▲ 10% |
| Profit after taxes | € 663,164,759 | € 77,689,278 | € 159,188,922 | € 29,210,572 | ▼ 82% |
| Equity | € 2,003,495,405 | € 1,995,861,729 | € 2,069,727,697 | € 2,054,220,634 | ▼ 1% |
| Total debts | € 1,025,652,756 | € 1,090,514,866 | € 1,295,637,842 | € 1,263,782,811 | ▼ 2% |
| Cash | € 75,203 | € 54,641 | € 165,490 | € 112,101 | ▼ 32% |
| Retained profit | € 2,000,219,381 | € 1,992,585,705 | € 2,066,451,673 | € 2,050,944,610 | ▼ 1% |
| Dividend | € 77,039,172 | € 85,322,954 | € 85,322,954 | € 85,322,954 | |
| Bank debt | € 919,704,264 | € 973,745,785 | € 1,178,529,814 | € 1,151,708,614 | ▼ 2% |
| Balance sheet total | € 3,049,625,506 | € 3,109,576,784 | € 3,381,078,816 | € 3,330,505,023 | ▼ 1% |
| Employees (FTE) | 83.5 | 93.6 | 102.6 | 100.5 | ▼ 2.1 |
Key figures of ETEX, 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 ETEX?
What happened at ETEX in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- BCConseil SRL stepped down as director. NBB
- Yves Kerstens stepped down as director. NBB
- Ines Kolmsee stepped down as director. NBB
- Inge Boets BV stepped down as director. NBB
- JoVB BV stepped down as director. NBB
- ARGALI CAPITAL BV stepped down as director. NBB
- OSICS BV stepped down as director. NBB
- FFGP Holding BV stepped down as director. NBB
In short
From € 663.2 million profit in 2022 to € 29.2 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 10.3 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 663.2 million profit.
Paid out € 333 million in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
The stake of FAJAC, AGEMAR, MARINVEST comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
ETEXThe shares are held by Stichting Jekbouw (42.7%), ABDEN AG c/o Fundationsanstalt (10.6%), Eternit NV (5.3%), Etex Finance S.A. (0.3%), FAJAC (0.5%) and AGEMAR (0%). It owns 100% of Eternit Investment, 100% of Etex Holding UK Insulation Ltd - known as Superglass Holdings Ltd, 100% of URSA (Insmat) Holdings GmbH, 100% of Etex Holding Denmark ApS, 100% of Etex Holding GmbH and 100% of Etex Building Performance itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director
Also active at: MAATSCHAPPIJ TOT EXPLOITATIE VAN IMMOBILIEN, PURATOS GROUP, INNO.COM, MATEXI GROUP
since 2024 · until 2027
Managing director
Also active at: MAATSCHAPPIJ TOT EXPLOITATIE VAN IMMOBILIEN, Meuse Midco
since 2025 · until 2028
since 2023 · until 2026
since 2023 · until 2026
Yves Kerstens
Director
since 2025 · until 2028
since 2024 · until 2027
Director
since 2024 · until 2027
since 2024 · until 2027
Ines Kolmsee
Director
since 2025 · until 2028
since 2024 · until 2027
since 2025 · until 2028
Shareholders
Stichting Jekbouw
42.7%
ABDEN AG c/o Fundationsanstalt
10.6%
5.3%
Etex Finance S.A.
0.3%
0.5%
0%
0%
Participations
Eternit Investment
100%
Etex Holding UK Insulation Ltd - known as Superglass Holdings Ltd
100%
URSA (Insmat) Holdings GmbH
100%
Etex Holding Denmark ApS
100%
Etex Holding GmbH
100%
Merilux
100%
Inversiones Etex Chile Ltda
89.6%
84.1%
Empresas Pizareno
45.2%
Etex Building Performance International SAS
27%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Luchthaven Brussel Nationaal 1 K
1930 Zaventem
Luchthaven Brussel Nationaal 1K
1930 Zaventem
Active since 1 August 1947
Bormstraat 24
2830 Willebroek
Active since 3 November 2017
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Details
- Company number
- 0400.454.404
- VAT number
- BE 0400.454.404
- Registered office
- Luchthaven Brussel Nationaal 1 K, 1930 Zaventem
- Names & denominations
- ETEX
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 2 June 1947
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 2 Oct 2025
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