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Financials
Financial year 2026
Sumitomo Benelux from Brussel, company number BE0401850610, closed financial year 2026 with a result of € 1.1 million after tax. For that financial year Sumitomo Benelux recorded revenue of € 12.8 million and equity of € 54.5 million. Compared with financial year 2025, the result moved from € 18.7 million to € 1.1 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 August 14, 2026.
€ 54.5 million
▼ 28% vs 2025
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 1.1 million
▼ 94% vs 2025
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 53.1 million
▼ 28% vs 2025
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 22.2 million paid out
More than the year’s profit went to the shareholders; reserves fell.
People and assets in 2026
4.8
▼ 0.2 vs 2025
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 715,123
▲ 7% vs 2025
€ 149,000 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.
€ 23,510
▼ 38% vs 2025
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2026
€ 32,122
▲ 55% vs 2025
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 1.3 million
▲ 1% vs 2025
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 36 days on average.
€ 136,987
▼ 31% vs 2025
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | Change 2025 → 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 16,597,475 | € 19,309,961 | € 10,577,371 | € 12,764,076 | ▲ 21% |
| Profit after taxes | € 2,575,878 | € 4,572,679 | € 18,743,145 | € 1,068,509 | ▼ 94% |
| Equity | € 52,364,444 | € 56,937,123 | € 75,680,268 | € 54,548,777 | ▼ 28% |
| Total debts | € 4,578,441 | € 1,607,762 | € 1,587,884 | € 1,720,746 | ▲ 8% |
| Cash | € 42,895,441 | € 44,838,939 | € 73,623,759 | € 53,083,591 | ▼ 28% |
| Retained profit | € 2,056,944 | € 6,629,623 | € 25,372,768 | € 4,241,277 | ▼ 83% |
| Dividend | € 2,500,000 | € 0 | € 0 | € 22,200,000 | |
| Bank debt | € 21,209 | € 19,396 | € 20,768 | € 32,122 | ▲ 55% |
| Balance sheet total | € 56,942,885 | € 58,544,884 | € 77,268,151 | € 56,269,523 | ▼ 27% |
| Employees (FTE) | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4.8 | ▼ 0.2 |
Key figures of Sumitomo Benelux, fiscal years 2023 to 2026, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2027) expected before 31 October 2027.
What happened to Sumitomo Benelux?
What happened at Sumitomo Benelux in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Oliver Hersee stepped down as director. NBB
- Noboru Ogasa stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2026: profit of € 1.1 million (▼ 94% vs 2025). Source: NBB ↗
- Oliver Hersee became a director. NBB
- Graham Holman stepped down as director. NBB
- Graham Holman became a director. NBB
- Noboru Ogasa became a director. NBB
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 2.6 million profit in 2023 to € 1.1 million profit in 2026.
Paid € 1.6 million in corporate taxes since 2023.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 18.7 million profit.
Paid out € 24.7 million in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
It owns 11% of STEEL CENTER EUROPE SRO itself.
Directors
According to the 2026 annual accounts
Graham Holman
Director
since 2025 · until 2026
Noboru Ogasa
Managing director
since 2023 · until 2028
Oliver Hersee
Director
since 2026 · until 2031
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Spastraat 8
1000 Brussel
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 21 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0401.850.610
- VAT number
- BE 0401.850.610
- Registered office
- Spastraat 8, 1000 Brussel
- Names & denominations
- Sumitomo Benelux · Equitra
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 8 March 1962
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