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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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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2024 and 2025.
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Figures corrected NBB
Corrected annual account filed for 2024.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Sarens be from Meise, company number BE0404032219, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -366,446 after tax. For that financial year Sarens be recorded revenue of € 49.7 million and equity of € 8.7 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -79,620 to € -366,446. The company made a loss. 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 June 16, 2026.
€ 8.7 million
▼ 4% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -366,446
▼ 360 % more loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 103,589
▼ 92% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 7.8 million.
People and assets in 2025
188.7
▲ 14.2 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 17.7 million
▲ 21% vs 2024
€ 94,000 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.
€ 34.2 million
▲ 35% vs 2024
Of which on lease € 26.1 million.
Debts at end 2025
€ 37.9 million
▲ 43% vs 2024
€ 5.6 million is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 7 years.
€ 12 million
▲ 31% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 178 days on average.
€ 4.6 million
▲ 72% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Revenue | € 31,335,925 | € 38,512,016 | € 34,611,774 | € 49,652,570 | ▲ 43% |
| Profit after taxes | € 2,250,661 | € -162,999 | € -79,620 | € -366,446 | ▼ € 286,826 |
| Equity | € 29,326,776 | € 9,207,674 | € 9,092,495 | € 8,690,891 | ▼ 4% |
| Total debts | € 31,736,915 | € 48,675,784 | € 42,005,504 | € 66,664,829 | ▲ 59% |
| Cash | € 1,061,140 | € 153,651 | € 1,301,496 | € 103,589 | ▼ 92% |
| Land & buildings | € 269,602 | € 827,497 | € 781,576 | € 730,627 | ▼ 7% |
| Retained profit | € 28,432,180 | € 8,269,181 | € 8,189,560 | € 7,823,114 | ▼ 4% |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 20,000,000 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Bank debt | € 17,815,238 | € 21,973,175 | € 26,439,324 | € 37,936,128 | ▲ 43% |
| Balance sheet total | € 63,537,798 | € 60,242,476 | € 53,642,345 | € 77,272,165 | ▲ 44% |
| Employees (FTE) | 172.6 | 172.5 | 174.5 | 188.7 | ▲ 14.2 |
Key figures of Sarens be, 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 Sarens be?
What happened at Sarens be in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Andrew Winter stepped down as director. NBB
- ACIMM BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Wim Sarens stepped down as director. NBB
- Corrected annual accounts filed for financial year 2024. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Andrew Winter became a director. NBB
- ACIMM BV became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Antwerpen. KBO
- Wim Sarens became a director. NBB
In short
From € 2.3 million profit in 2022 to € 366,446 loss in 2025.
Paid € 2.7 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 2.3 million profit.
Paid out € 20 million in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
The shares are held by Sarens Bestuur (100%). It owns 25.1% of SARENS POLSKA Sp z.o.o. and 1% of SARENS THAILAND CO LTD itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Shareholders
100%
Participations
SARENS POLSKA Sp z.o.o.
25.1%
SARENS THAILAND CO LTD
1%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Autoweg 8
1861 Meise
Grand Route 71
7640 Antoing
Active since 1 May 1958
Jacobsveldweg 8
2160 Wommelgem
Active since 1 May 1947
Scheldelaan 600
2040 Antwerpen
Active since 1 January 2005
Winterbeeklaan 31
3600 Genk
Active since 1 August 2009
Langerbruggekaai 40
9042 Gent
Active since 1 January 2011
Antwerpsebaan 4
2040 Antwerpen
Active since 1 January 2023
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0404.032.219
- VAT number
- BE 0404.032.219
- Registered office
- Autoweg 8, 1861 Meise
- Names & denominations
- Sarens be
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 1 January 1968
- Peppol
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