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Figures corrected NBB
Corrected annual account filed for 2023.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Syngenta Seeds from Gent, company number BE0404599569, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 253,163 after tax. For that financial year Syngenta Seeds recorded revenue of € 18.4 million and equity of € 946,478. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 237,774 to € 253,163. Profitable, and profit is growing. The company holds a healthy buffer. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on July 20, 2026.
€ 946,478
▼ 21% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 253,163
▲ 6% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 43,117
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 500,000 paid out
More than the year’s profit went to the shareholders; reserves fell.
People and assets in 2025
21.3
▼ 1.9 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 4.4 million
▲ 58% vs 2024
€ 208,300 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.
Debts at end 2025
None
No bank loans on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 674,200
▼ 76% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 18 days on average.
€ 570,144
▼ 24% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 16,991,998 | € 18,205,564 | € 18,860,594 | € 18,444,123 | ▼ 2% |
| Profit after taxes | € 109,502 | € 299,732 | € 237,774 | € 253,163 | ▲ 6% |
| Equity | € 1,155,808 | € 955,540 | € 1,193,314 | € 946,478 | ▼ 21% |
| Total debts | € 4,915,048 | € 4,476,994 | € 3,707,805 | € 1,744,344 | ▼ 53% |
| Cash | - | € 76,010 | - | € 43,117 | |
| Retained profit | € 493,808 | € 293,540 | € 531,314 | € 284,478 | ▼ 46% |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 500,000 | € 0 | € 500,000 | |
| Balance sheet total | € 6,070,856 | € 5,432,535 | € 4,901,119 | € 2,690,822 | ▼ 45% |
| Employees (FTE) | 23.5 | 23.1 | 23.2 | 21.3 | ▼ 1.9 |
Key figures of Syngenta Seeds, 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 Syngenta Seeds?
What happened at Syngenta Seeds in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Kurt Goethals stepped down as director. NBB
- Johan De Dobbelaere stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 253,163 (▲ 6% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Richard Peletier stepped down as director. NBB
- Kurt Goethals became a director. NBB
- Kurt Lefebvre stepped down as director. NBB
- Johan De Dobbelaere became a director. NBB
- Richard Peletier became a director. NBB
In short
From € 109,502 profit in 2022 to € 253,163 profit in 2025.
Paid € 572,170 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 299,732 profit.
Paid out € 1 million in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
The shares are held by Syngenta Crop Protection AG (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Kurt Lefebvre
Director
since 2020 · until 2025
Kurt Goethals
Director
since 2025 · until 2031
since 2022 · until 2028
since 2020 · until 2026
Shareholders
Syngenta Crop Protection AG
100%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 30
9052 Gent
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 3 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0404.599.569
- VAT number
- BE 0404.599.569
- Registered office
- Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 30, 9052 Gent
- Names & denominations
- Syngenta Seeds
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 26 April 1949
- Peppol
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