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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 12 to 10.1.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Librairie Pax from Liège, company number BE0402352139, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 130,061 after tax. For that financial year Librairie Pax recorded a gross margin of € 808,647 and equity of € 117,294. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 73,384 to € 130,061. Profitable, and profit is growing. The company holds a healthy buffer. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on September 4, 2025.
€ 117,294
▼ 35% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 130,061
▲ 77% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 201,255
▲ 142% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 192,000 paid out
More than the year’s profit went to the shareholders; reserves fell.
People and assets in 2025
10.1
▼ 1.3 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 578,626
▼ 11% vs 2024
€ 57,300 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.
€ 6,998
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
None
No bank loans on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 283,678
▼ 26% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 138,857
▼ 5% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 800,257 | € 806,105 | € 791,674 | € 808,647 | ▲ 2% |
| Profit after taxes | € 114,450 | € 93,734 | € 73,384 | € 130,061 | ▲ 77% |
| Equity | € 194,115 | € 187,849 | € 179,233 | € 117,294 | ▼ 35% |
| Total debts | € 1,119,467 | € 776,026 | € 736,427 | € 730,889 | ▼ 1% |
| Cash | € 401,719 | € 141,098 | € 83,189 | € 201,255 | ▲ 142% |
| Retained profit | € 94,115 | € 87,849 | € 79,233 | € 17,294 | ▼ 78% |
| Dividend | € 465,000 | € 100,000 | € 82,000 | € 192,000 | ▲ 134% |
| Balance sheet total | € 1,322,846 | € 970,603 | € 919,850 | € 848,183 | ▼ 8% |
| Employees (FTE) | 11.9 | 12 | 11.4 | 10.1 | ▼ 1.3 |
Key figures of Librairie Pax, 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 January 2027.
What happened to Librairie Pax?
What happened at Librairie Pax in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- JUDONG INVEST SRL stepped down as director. NBB
- Geneviève PIERLOT stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 130,061 (▲ 77% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- JUDONG INVEST SRL became a director. NBB
- Geneviève PIERLOT became a director. NBB
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
- New establishment in Liège. KBO
In short
From € 114,450 profit in 2022 to € 130,061 profit in 2025.
Paid € 192,939 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 130,061 profit.
On average € 80,100 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of JUDONG INVEST comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
Librairie PaxThe shares are held by JUDONG INVEST (99.8%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Managing director · represented by Hugues JUDONG
since 2016 · until 2029
Geneviève PIERLOT
Director
since 2016 · until 2029
Shareholders
99.8%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Place Cockerill 4
4000 Liège
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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Details
- Company number
- 0402.352.139
- VAT number
- BE 0402.352.139
- Registered office
- Place Cockerill 4, 4000 Liège
- Names & denominations
- Librairie Pax
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 7 December 1949
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 23 Sept 2025
- Activities · NACE
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