Financials
Financial year 2025
MARTENS HOUT from Schoten, company number BE0403730628, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 2.7 million after tax. For that financial year MARTENS HOUT recorded revenue of € 48.4 million and equity of € 19.8 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 2 million to € 2.7 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 April 29, 2026.
€ 19.8 million
▲ 4% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 2.7 million
▲ 32% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 3.3 million
▼ 11% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 1.9 million paid out
69 % of the profit went to the shareholders, mostly to HOLDING DE EIK (100 % of the shares). That is where the money ends up.
People and assets in 2025
84.8
▲ 5 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 6.2 million
▲ 8% vs 2024
€ 73,600 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.
€ 1.2 million
▲ 35% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 488,568
▲ 20% vs 2024
€ 190,815 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 3 years.
€ 1.8 million
▲ 4% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 18 days on average.
€ 1.6 million
▲ 35% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 48,010,740 | € 43,598,226 | € 45,074,421 | € 48,416,441 | ▲ 7% |
| Profit after taxes | € 4,316,862 | € 1,851,142 | € 2,033,497 | € 2,683,711 | ▲ 32% |
| Equity | € 16,715,946 | € 18,567,088 | € 19,000,585 | € 19,834,296 | ▲ 4% |
| Total debts | € 5,590,991 | € 3,341,963 | € 3,376,685 | € 3,996,362 | ▲ 18% |
| Cash | € 3,568,794 | € 4,068,554 | € 3,722,676 | € 3,327,864 | ▼ 11% |
| Land & buildings | € 46,216 | € 452,620 | € 419,419 | € 462,374 | ▲ 10% |
| Retained profit | € 12,704,437 | € 14,555,579 | € 14,989,076 | € 15,822,787 | ▲ 6% |
| Dividend | € 3,000,000 | € 0 | € 1,600,000 | € 1,850,000 | ▲ 16% |
| Bank debt | € 1,297,657 | € 648,578 | € 406,168 | € 488,568 | ▲ 20% |
| Balance sheet total | € 22,390,166 | € 21,968,940 | € 22,417,164 | € 23,850,558 | ▲ 6% |
| Employees (FTE) | 85.3 | 76.8 | 79.8 | 84.8 | ▲ 5 |
Key figures of MARTENS HOUT, 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 MARTENS HOUT?
What happened at MARTENS HOUT in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Nathalie De Corte stepped down as director. NBB
- Holding De Eik NV stepped down as director. NBB
- David De Loore Consulting BVBA stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 2.7 million (▲ 32% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Nathalie De Corte became a director. NBB
- Holding De Eik NV became a director. NBB
- David De Loore Consulting BVBA became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Kontich. KBO
In short
From € 4.3 million profit in 2022 to € 2.7 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 3.9 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 4.3 million profit.
Paid out € 6.5 million in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
The stake of HOLDING DE EIK comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
MARTENS HOUTThe shares are held by HOLDING DE EIK (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
David De Loore Consulting BVBA
Director · represented by David De Loore
since 2020 · until 2026
since 2022 · until 2028
Managing director · represented by Eric Martens
since 2022 · until 2028
Shareholders
100%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Hoogmolendijk 4
2900 Schoten
Diestsesteenweg 708
3010 Leuven
Active since 1 August 2014
Mechelsesteenweg 305
2550 Kontich
Active since 1 February 2016
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 3 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.
Website
Technologies
Certifications & Partners
Hosting & Email
Email provider
Self-hosted
Hosting
AS-VULTR - The Constant Company, LLC, US
DNS
Cloudflare DNS
Domain
Domain
martenshout.be
Registered
1997-06-13
Website info
Features
Security
Details
- Company number
- 0403.730.628
- VAT number
- BE 0403.730.628
- Registered office
- Hoogmolendijk 4, 2900 Schoten
- Names & denominations
- MARTENS HOUT
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 27 March 1952
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 1 Jan 2001
- Contact
- martenshout.be
- Activities · NACE
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