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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 54 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
HOTTLET FROZEN FOODS from Kontich, company number BE0403656986, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 2.2 million after tax. For that financial year HOTTLET FROZEN FOODS recorded revenue of € 52.3 million and equity of € 9.7 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 1.5 million to € 2.2 million. 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 October 6, 2025.
€ 9.7 million
▲ 2% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 2.2 million
▲ 46% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 1.6 million
▼ 69% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 2 million paid out
92 % of the profit went to the shareholders, the rest stayed in the company.
People and assets in 2025
27.3
▲ 3.7 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 2.5 million
▲ 15% vs 2024
€ 89,800 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.
€ 145,332
▼ 14% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 6.7 million
▼ 22% vs 2024
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 1.3 million
▲ 12% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 11 days on average.
€ 693,374
▼ 4% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 54,114,418 | € 52,845,462 | € 49,002,476 | € 52,277,818 | ▲ 7% |
| Profit after taxes | € 2,999,731 | € 308,541 | € 1,491,516 | € 2,181,550 | ▲ 46% |
| Equity | € 9,570,821 | € 9,571,362 | € 9,562,878 | € 9,744,428 | ▲ 2% |
| Total debts | € 10,885,377 | € 11,480,519 | € 13,556,169 | € 11,206,007 | ▼ 17% |
| Cash | € 5,088,356 | € 2,647,551 | € 5,072,341 | € 1,552,063 | ▼ 69% |
| Land & buildings | € 704,567 | € 666,773 | € 633,856 | € 714,219 | ▲ 13% |
| Retained profit | € 8,570,821 | € 8,571,362 | € 8,562,878 | € 8,744,428 | ▲ 2% |
| Dividend | € 3,000,000 | € 308,000 | € 1,500,000 | € 2,000,000 | ▲ 33% |
| Bank debt | € 5,119,559 | € 6,541,786 | € 8,618,688 | € 6,688,398 | ▼ 22% |
| Balance sheet total | € 20,456,198 | € 21,051,881 | € 23,119,047 | € 20,950,435 | ▼ 9% |
| Employees (FTE) | 15.5 | 16.8 | 23.6 | 27.3 | ▲ 3.7 |
Key figures of HOTTLET FROZEN FOODS, 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 October 2026.
What happened to HOTTLET FROZEN FOODS?
What happened at HOTTLET FROZEN FOODS in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- LHO MANAGMENT BV stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 2.2 million (▲ 46% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Olivier HOTTLET stepped down as director. NBB
- Benoit HOTTLET stepped down as director. NBB
- LHO MANAGMENT BV became a director. NBB
- Olivier HOTTLET became a director. NBB
- Benoit HOTTLET became a director. NBB
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 3 million profit in 2022 to € 2.2 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 2.5 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 3 million profit.
Paid out € 6.8 million in dividends to the owners in total.
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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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NMBS 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left ▼ 80%
bpost 18 May 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left from loss to profit
Management
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Louis HOTTLET
since 2023 · until 2029
since 2019 · until 2025
Benoit HOTTLET
Managing director
since 2019 · until 2025
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Heiveldekens 4
2550 Kontich
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Details
- Company number
- 0403.656.986
- VAT number
- BE 0403.656.986
- Registered office
- Heiveldekens 4, 2550 Kontich
- Names & denominations
- HOTTLET FROZEN FOODS · HFF
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 25 October 1951
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 18 Jun 2025
- Activities · NACE
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