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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 58 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Van Aerde from Wijnegem, company number BE0404738834, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 809,949 after tax. For that financial year Van Aerde recorded revenue of € 104.1 million and equity of € 9.5 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 3.1 million to € 809,949. The company is profitable. The company holds a healthy buffer. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on July 27, 2026.
€ 9.5 million
▼ 2% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 809,949
▼ 74% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 781,327
▼ 14% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 1 million paid out
More than the year’s profit went to the shareholders; reserves fell.
People and assets in 2025
16.1
▲ 1.3 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.5 million
▲ 22% vs 2024
€ 92,700 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.
€ 141,140
▲ 98% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 13.3 million
▲ 1% vs 2024
€ 453,359 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 4 years.
€ 10.9 million
▲ 15% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 41 days on average.
€ 539,867
▲ 56% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 60,269,209 | € 57,252,752 | € 89,578,475 | € 104,146,868 | ▲ 16% |
| Profit after taxes | € 2,617,156 | € 1,285,869 | € 3,088,650 | € 809,949 | ▼ 74% |
| Equity | € 7,418,228 | € 8,682,960 | € 9,692,990 | € 9,481,905 | ▼ 2% |
| Total debts | € 13,513,444 | € 17,922,720 | € 25,872,953 | € 28,407,279 | ▲ 10% |
| Cash | € 404,848 | € 434,683 | € 909,032 | € 781,327 | ▼ 14% |
| Land & buildings | € 2,174,331 | € 2,036,674 | € 0 | - | |
| Retained profit | € 6,798,228 | € 8,062,960 | € 9,217,750 | € 9,006,665 | ▼ 2% |
| Dividend | € 500,000 | € 0 | € 0 | € 1,000,000 | |
| Bank debt | € 7,080,529 | € 9,400,116 | € 13,196,277 | € 13,334,251 | ▲ 1% |
| Balance sheet total | € 20,931,673 | € 26,605,680 | € 35,565,944 | € 41,389,184 | ▲ 16% |
| Employees (FTE) | 13.7 | 14.1 | 14.8 | 16.1 | ▲ 1.3 |
Key figures of Van Aerde, 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 Van Aerde?
What happened at Van Aerde in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 809,949 (▼ 74% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- COOPER INVEST CommV became a director. NBB
- BLUE BEECH ADVISORY BV became a director. NBB
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
- New establishment in Wijnegem. KBO
In short
From € 2.6 million profit in 2022 to € 809,949 profit in 2025.
Paid € 2.2 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 3.1 million profit.
Paid out € 1.5 million in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
The stake of BLUE BEECH ADVISORY comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
Van AerdeBehind Van Aerde are COOPER INVEST CommV and BLUE BEECH ADVISORY BV. The shares are held by BLUE BEECH ADVISORY (44%). It owns 100% of Bimpex Meat NV, 90% of Van Aerde UK, 90% of Swift & Co and 75.1% of Cordts Fleish Gmbh itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Joannes Van Aerde
Also active at: Swift & Co, BIMPEX MEAT, WILLOW ESTATE
since 2025
Managing director · represented by Christophe Van Aerde
Also active at: Swift & Co, BIMPEX MEAT, WILLOW ESTATE
since 2025
Shareholders
Participations
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Vosveld 6
2110 Wijnegem
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
- 0404.738.834
- VAT number
- BE 0404.738.834
- Registered office
- Vosveld 6, 2110 Wijnegem
- Names & denominations
- Van Aerde
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 1 January 1968
- Peppol
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