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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 68.2 to 57.1.
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Figures corrected NBB
Corrected annual account filed for 2025.
Financials
Financial year 2026
Les Grands Magasins Demars from Beauraing, company number BE0402539508, closed financial year 2026 with a result of € 144,950 after tax. For that financial year Les Grands Magasins Demars recorded revenue of € 14.9 million and equity of € 2.5 million. Compared with financial year 2025, the result moved from € 119,591 to € 144,950. 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 September 29, 2026.
€ 2.5 million
▲ 3% vs 2025
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 144,950
▲ 21% vs 2025
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 212,702
▲ 49% vs 2025
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 80,000 paid out
55 % of the profit went to the shareholders, the rest stayed in the company.
People and assets in 2026
57.1
▼ 9.2 vs 2025
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.8 million
▲ 2% vs 2025
€ 31,600 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.
€ 94,088
▼ 22% vs 2025
Of which on lease € 30,211.
Debts at end 2026
€ 832,333
▲ 14% vs 2025
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 768,817
▼ 17% vs 2025
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 22 days on average.
€ 242,703
▼ 5% vs 2025
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | Change 2025 → 2026 | |
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| Revenue | € 13,691,763 | € 14,248,665 | € 14,961,279 | € 14,874,967 | ▼ 1% |
| Profit after taxes | € 44,341 | € 226,365 | € 119,591 | € 144,950 | ▲ 21% |
| Equity | € 2,257,487 | € 2,483,852 | € 2,432,252 | € 2,497,202 | ▲ 3% |
| Total debts | € 1,905,030 | € 1,594,086 | € 2,343,120 | € 2,039,525 | ▼ 13% |
| Cash | € 134,885 | € 77,989 | € 143,137 | € 212,702 | ▲ 49% |
| Land & buildings | € 432,826 | € 336,903 | € 241,366 | € 160,274 | ▼ 34% |
| Retained profit | € 2,116,906 | € 2,343,270 | € 2,291,670 | € 2,356,620 | ▲ 3% |
| Dividend | € 203,000 | € 0 | € 171,191 | € 80,000 | ▼ 53% |
| Bank debt | € 776,332 | € 724,447 | € 730,302 | € 832,333 | ▲ 14% |
| Balance sheet total | € 4,162,517 | € 4,077,938 | € 4,775,372 | € 4,536,727 | ▼ 5% |
| Employees (FTE) | 69.4 | 68.2 | 66.3 | 57.1 | ▼ 9.2 |
Key figures of Les Grands Magasins Demars, 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 August 2027.
What happened to Les Grands Magasins Demars?
What happened at Les Grands Magasins Demars in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Charlotte Demars stepped down as director. NBB
- Yves Demars stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2026: profit of € 144,950 (▲ 21% vs 2025). filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Charlotte Demars became a director. NBB
- Yves Demars became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Beauraing. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
- New establishment in Beauraing. KBO
In short
From € 44,341 profit in 2023 to € 144,950 profit in 2026.
Paid € 228,849 in corporate taxes since 2023.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 226,365 profit.
Paid out € 454,191 in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
Directors
According to the 2026 annual accounts
Charlotte Demars
Managing director
Also active at: Société Immobilière Beauraing-Soignies, CHARTEX, DEMARS JOUETS
since 2023 · until 2029
since 2023 · until 2029
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
rue de Rochefort 37
5570 Beauraing
rue de Rochefort 43
5570 Beauraing
Active since 8 February 2012
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0402.539.508
- VAT number
- BE 0402.539.508
- Registered office
- rue de Rochefort 37, 5570 Beauraing
- Names & denominations
- Les Grands Magasins Demars
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 20 December 1948
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 24 Sept 2025
- Activities · NACE
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