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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.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 2.1 to 1.3.
Financials
Financial year 2025
VAN DER GUCHT F & I from Antwerpen, company number BE0400821321, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 347,631 after tax. For that financial year VAN DER GUCHT F & I recorded a gross margin of € 529,829 and equity of € 9.1 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -477,146 to € 347,631. 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 March 12, 2026.
€ 9.1 million
▲ 4% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 347,631
▲ still € 477,146 loss in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 2.3 million
▲ € 1.9 million vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Stays in the company
No dividend for 2025. Retained profit grew to € 8.9 million.
People and assets in 2025
1.3
▼ 0.7 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 59,823
▼ 43% vs 2024
€ 46,000 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.
€ 2,114
▼ 93% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 161,307
▼ 16% vs 2024
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 258,359
▲ 10% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 1,996
▼ 96% vs 2024
Wages, holiday pay and social contributions still to pay. No outstanding taxes.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 1,883,741 | € 972,374 | € 1,391,266 | € 529,829 | ▼ 62% |
| Profit after taxes | € 1,108,297 | € 523,282 | € -477,146 | € 347,631 | ▲ € 824,777 |
| Equity | € 8,717,403 | € 9,240,685 | € 8,763,539 | € 9,111,169 | ▲ 4% |
| Total debts | € 661,234 | € 1,011,239 | € 1,197,818 | € 421,663 | ▼ 65% |
| Cash | € 3,676,674 | € 628,587 | € 442,420 | € 2,316,994 | ▲ € 1.9 million |
| Land & buildings | € 28,368 | € 87,880 | € 77,894 | € 71,909 | ▼ 8% |
| Retained profit | € 8,467,403 | € 8,990,685 | € 8,513,539 | € 8,861,169 | ▲ 4% |
| Bank debt | € 230,121 | € 160,365 | € 191,366 | € 161,307 | ▼ 16% |
| Balance sheet total | € 9,378,637 | € 10,251,923 | € 9,961,357 | € 9,532,832 | ▼ 4% |
| Employees (FTE) | 1.6 | 2.1 | 2 | 1.3 | ▼ 0.7 |
Key figures of VAN DER GUCHT F & I, fiscal years 2022 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2026) expected before 30 April 2027.
What happened to VAN DER GUCHT F & I?
What happened at VAN DER GUCHT F & I in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 347,631. Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Antwerpen. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 1.1 million profit in 2022 to € 347,631 profit in 2025.
Paid € 883,405 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 1.1 million profit.
On average € 407,600 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of Vadegu comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
VAN DER GUCHT F & IBehind VAN DER GUCHT F & I is Ivan Van Der Gucht. The shares are held by Vadegu (80%).
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Leo Bosschartlaan 15
2660 Antwerpen
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0400.821.321
- VAT number
- BE 0400.821.321
- Registered office
- Leo Bosschartlaan 15, 2660 Antwerpen
- Names & denominations
- VAN DER GUCHT F & I · VAN DER GUCHT
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 1 January 1968
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 1 Jan 2001
- Activities · NACE
Groothandel in ijzer- en staalschroot en in oude non-ferrometalen
Groothandel in afval en schroot
Reparatie en onderhoud van civiele schepen
Bouw en reparatie van schepen