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No director from three years ago is still active according to annual account 2025.
Financials
Financial year 2025
CONTINENTAL BENELUX from Machelen (Brab.), company number BE0404411707, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 11.1 million after tax. For that financial year CONTINENTAL BENELUX recorded revenue of € 610.7 million and equity of € 16.9 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 9.6 million to € 11.1 million. Profitable, and profit is growing. The buffer is growing. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on June 1, 2026.
€ 16.9 million
▲ 7% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 11.1 million
▲ 15% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 1,508
▼ 93% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 10 million paid out
90 % of the profit went to the shareholders, mostly to Continental Global Holding (100 % of the shares). That is where the money ends up.
People and assets in 2025
105.4
▼ 4.6 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 15.8 million
▲ 5% vs 2024
€ 150,300 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.
€ 3,736
▼ 67% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 39.3 million
▲ 8% vs 2024
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 48.6 million
▲ 14% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 30 days on average.
€ 9.1 million
▲ 11% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 672,525,074 | € 640,841,777 | € 587,611,404 | € 610,736,164 | ▲ 4% |
| Profit after taxes | € 8,582,954 | € 3,859,565 | € 9,625,599 | € 11,065,182 | ▲ 15% |
| Equity | € 97,365,544 | € 101,225,109 | € 15,850,708 | € 16,915,890 | ▲ 7% |
| Total debts | € 114,568,804 | € 122,282,857 | € 190,981,314 | € 156,951,709 | ▼ 18% |
| Cash | € 66,437 | € 584,280 | € 20,664 | € 1,508 | ▼ 93% |
| Land & buildings | € 7,781 | € 7,781 | € 7,781 | € 7,781 | |
| Retained profit | € 85,832,501 | € 89,692,066 | € 4,317,665 | € 5,382,848 | ▲ 25% |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 0 | € 95,000,000 | € 10,000,000 | ▼ 89% |
| Bank debt | € 31,793,754 | € 35,172,937 | € 36,519,677 | € 39,325,619 | ▲ 8% |
| Balance sheet total | € 211,934,348 | € 223,507,966 | € 206,832,022 | € 173,867,599 | ▼ 16% |
| Employees (FTE) | 117.2 | 112 | 110 | 105.4 | ▼ 4.6 |
Key figures of CONTINENTAL BENELUX, 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 CONTINENTAL BENELUX?
What happened at CONTINENTAL BENELUX in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Wim Van Loocke stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 11.1 million (▲ 15% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Violaine Lorphelin stepped down as director. NBB
- Wim Van Loocke became a director. NBB
- Gabriele Fredebohm became a director. NBB
- Violaine Lorphelin became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Machelen (Brab.). KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 8.6 million profit in 2022 to € 11.1 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 9.1 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 11.1 million profit.
Paid out € 105 million in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
Behind CONTINENTAL BENELUX is Gabriele Fredebohm. The shares are held by Continental Global Holding (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Gabriele Fredebohm
Manager
since 2023
Wim Van Loocke
Administrator-manager
since 2024 · until 2027
Violaine Lorphelin
Administrator-manager
since 2023 · until 2026
Shareholders
Continental Global Holding
100%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Hermeslaan 1 box B
1831 Machelen (Brab.)
Hermeslaan 1
1831 Machelen (Brab.)
Active since 14 January 1999
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
- 0404.411.707
- VAT number
- BE 0404.411.707
- Registered office
- Hermeslaan 1 bus B, 1831 Machelen (Brab.)
- Names & denominations
- CONTINENTAL BENELUX
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 30 December 1957
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