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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 208.5 to 156.1.
Financials
Financial year 2025
BRIQUETERIES DE PLOEGSTEERT from Comines-Warneton, company number BE0401273162, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 34,015 after tax. For that financial year BRIQUETERIES DE PLOEGSTEERT recorded revenue of € 33.6 million and equity of € 24.5 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 2.8 million to € 34,015. 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 May 5, 2026.
€ 24.5 million
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 34,015
▼ 99% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 3.1 million
▲ 145% 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 € 20.4 million.
People and assets in 2025
156.1
▼ 17.2 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 9.6 million
▼ 6% vs 2024
€ 61,200 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.
€ 5.6 million
Of which on lease € 4.5 million.
Debts at end 2025
€ 7 million
▼ 16% vs 2024
€ 1.5 million is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 5 years.
€ 6.3 million
▼ 20% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 85 days on average.
€ 1.9 million
▲ 12% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 49,469,603 | € 42,013,028 | € 41,616,540 | € 33,614,449 | ▼ 19% |
| Profit after taxes | € 1,348,448 | € 148,035 | € 2,762,809 | € 34,015 | ▼ 99% |
| Equity | € 21,556,932 | € 21,704,967 | € 24,467,776 | € 24,501,791 | |
| Total debts | € 25,917,660 | € 23,587,223 | € 17,844,011 | € 15,152,685 | ▼ 15% |
| Cash | € 2,285,545 | € 1,097,940 | € 1,264,945 | € 3,101,971 | ▲ 145% |
| Land & buildings | € 3,004,646 | € 3,000,066 | € 1,127,243 | € 1,043,724 | ▼ 7% |
| Retained profit | € 17,450,902 | € 17,598,937 | € 20,361,746 | € 20,395,761 | |
| Bank debt | € 14,736,389 | € 16,231,056 | € 8,310,166 | € 6,954,235 | ▼ 16% |
| Balance sheet total | € 47,474,592 | € 47,093,166 | € 45,237,067 | € 41,003,756 | ▼ 9% |
| Employees (FTE) | 205.7 | 208.5 | 173.3 | 156.1 | ▼ 17.2 |
Key figures of BRIQUETERIES DE PLOEGSTEERT, 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 BRIQUETERIES DE PLOEGSTEERT?
What happened at BRIQUETERIES DE PLOEGSTEERT in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Sternidae SPRL stepped down as director. NBB
- DEBRUCO BV stepped down as director. NBB
- OPUS+ NV stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 34,015 (▼ 99% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- DEBRUCO BV became a director. NBB
- OPUS+ NV became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Zonnebeke. KBO
- Sternidae SPRL became a director. NBB
In short
From € 1.3 million profit in 2022 to € 34,015 profit in 2025.
Paid € 1 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 2.8 million profit.
Pays suppliers within 85 days on average.
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De Lijn 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025
filed on 8 June 2026
What was left
€ 20 k ▼ 91%
Money in the bank
€ 178 k ▼ 98%
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Management
The stake of DEBINCO comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
BRIQUETERIES DE PLOEGSTEERTThe shares are held by DEBINCO (100%). It owns 100% of Douterloigne Béton and 100% of Prefaxis itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Managing director · represented by Maxime BUSSCHAERT
Also active at: CERATEC, VEFIBEL, DOUTERLOIGNE BETON, PREFAXIS
since 2016 · until 2029
Managing director · represented by Louis DE BRUYN
Also active at: CERATEC, VEFIBEL, DOUTERLOIGNE BETON, PREFAXIS
since 2020 · until 2029
Shareholders
100%
Participations
100%
100%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Touquetstraat(Biz) 228
7783 Comines-Warneton
Kasteelstraat 9
8980 Zonnebeke
Active since 24 January 2019
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Details
- Company number
- 0401.273.162
- VAT number
- BE 0401.273.162
- Registered office
- Touquetstraat(Biz) 228, 7783 Comines-Warneton
- Names & denominations
- BRIQUETERIES DE PLOEGSTEERT
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 1 January 1946
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 1 Jan 2001
- Activities · NACE
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