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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 21 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
ZENITEL from Asse, company number BE0403150608, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 15.2 million after tax. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 23.9 million to € 15.2 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 May 21, 2026.
€ 38.3 million
▼ 2% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 15.2 million
▼ 36% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 370,915
▼ 90% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 16 million paid out
More than the year’s profit went to the shareholders; reserves fell.
People and assets in 2025
2
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 2,671
▼ 55% vs 2024
€ 1,300 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.
Debts at end 2025
€ 10.7 million
▼ 12% vs 2024
€ 2.7 million is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 4 years.
€ 626,390
▼ 14% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 34 days on average.
€ 38,705
Corporate tax and VAT still to pay. No wage debt: nothing outstanding to staff or social security.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Profit after taxes | € 4,172,893 | € 4,056,429 | € 23,871,560 | € 15,186,019 | ▼ 36% |
| Equity | € 50,037,288 | € 37,193,717 | € 39,065,277 | € 38,251,296 | ▼ 2% |
| Total debts | € 950,567 | € 16,220,162 | € 16,375,401 | € 17,752,295 | ▲ 8% |
| Cash | € 2,371,675 | € 4,541,173 | € 3,692,960 | € 370,915 | ▼ 90% |
| Retained profit | € 24,413,439 | € 11,569,867 | € 13,441,427 | € 12,627,446 | ▼ 6% |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 16,900,000 | € 22,000,000 | € 16,000,000 | ▼ 27% |
| Bank debt | € 0 | € 0 | € 12,150,000 | € 10,688,657 | ▼ 12% |
| Balance sheet total | € 54,302,008 | € 55,418,878 | € 58,235,616 | € 56,717,448 | ▼ 3% |
| Employees (FTE) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Key figures of ZENITEL, 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 ZENITEL?
What happened at ZENITEL in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Blanco Blad BV stepped down as director. NBB
- K-CL BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Anchorage NV stepped down as director. NBB
- Equity@work BV stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 15.2 million (▼ 36% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Yves De Backer BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Anchorage NV became a director. NBB
- Yves De Backer BV became a director. NBB
In short
From € 4.2 million profit in 2022 to € 15.2 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 43,911 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 23.9 million profit.
Paid out € 54.9 million in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
The shares are held by House of Thor bv (100%). It owns 100% of Zenitel Finance Netherlands BV, 100% of Zenitel Norway AS and 100% of Zenitel GB ltd. itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Chairman of the board · represented by Yves De Backer
Also active at: House of Thor, The House of Outdoor Lifestyle
since 2023 · until 2026
Director · represented by Jo Van Gorp
since 2010 · until 2028
since 2018 · until 2028
Director · represented by Anne-Charlotte Werbrouck
Also active at: The House of Outdoor Lifestyle
since 2024 · until 2028
Director · represented by Hans Swinnen
Also active at: PLBE, PAUWELS CONSULTING, Pyramid, TASCO, Science at Work Staffing België, House of Thor, The House of Outdoor Lifestyle, Anchorage
since 2015 · until 2028
Shareholders
100%
Participations
Zenitel Finance Netherlands BV
100%
Zenitel Norway AS
100%
Zenitel GB ltd.
100%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Z. 1 Researchpark 110
1731 Asse
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 4 companies are registered at this address.
All companies at this address →What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0403.150.608
- VAT number
- BE 0403.150.608
- Registered office
- Z. 1 Researchpark 110, 1731 Asse
- Names & denominations
- ZENITEL
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 31 March 1913
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 21 Oct 2026
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