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Annual account missing NBB
Fiscal year 2025 was expected before 30 January 2026 and has not been filed.
Financials
Financial year 2024
Mertens en Hertoghs from Schilde, company number BE0404174848, closed financial year 2024 with a result of € 55,566 after tax. For that financial year Mertens en Hertoghs recorded a gross margin of € 291,768 and equity of € 130,249. Compared with financial year 2023, the result moved from € 2,807 to € 55,566. 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 February 4, 2025.
€ 130,249
▲ 74% vs 2023
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 55,566
▲ € 52,759 vs 2023
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 8,502
▼ 4% vs 2023
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Stays in the company
No dividend for 2024. Retained profit grew to € 111,699.
People and assets in 2024
€ 56,774
▲ 9% vs 2023
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 2024
€ 59,371
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 10,756
▲ 22% vs 2023
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 24,290
▲ € 19,440 vs 2023
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Change 2023 → 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 91,975 | € 171,068 | € 291,768 | ▲ 71% |
| Profit after taxes | € 10,046 | € 2,807 | € 55,566 | ▲ € 52,759 |
| Equity | € 71,876 | € 74,683 | € 130,249 | ▲ 74% |
| Total debts | € 137,538 | € 95,140 | € 126,407 | ▲ 33% |
| Cash | € 25,664 | € 8,823 | € 8,502 | ▼ 4% |
| Retained profit | € 53,326 | € 56,133 | € 111,699 | ▲ 99% |
| Bank debt | € 65,062 | € 59,371 | € 59,371 | |
| Balance sheet total | € 209,414 | € 169,823 | € 256,656 | ▲ 51% |
Key figures of Mertens en Hertoghs, fiscal years 2022 to 2024, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.The annual account for fiscal year 2025 has not been filed yet; it was expected before 30 January 2026.
What happened to Mertens en Hertoghs?
What happened at Mertens en Hertoghs in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2024: profit of € 55,566 (▲ € 52,759 vs 2023). filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
- New establishment in Vosselaar. KBO
In short
From € 10,046 profit in 2022 to € 55,566 profit in 2024.
Paid € 17,826 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 55,566 profit.
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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
Behind Mertens en Hertoghs is Hertoghs Comm.V.
Directors
According to the 2024 annual accounts
bestuurder · represented by Eduard Hertoghs
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Klein Waterstraat 53
2970 Schilde
Antwerpsesteenweg 199
2350 Vosselaar
Active since 1 January 1967
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 4 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0404.174.848
- VAT number
- BE 0404.174.848
- Registered office
- Klein Waterstraat 53, 2970 Schilde
- Names & denominations
- Mertens en Hertoghs
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 1 January 1968
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