Warning lights
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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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 183.2 to 153.9.
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Figures corrected NBB
Corrected annual account filed for 2023.
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Busy address KBO
14 other companies have their registered office at the same address; threshold 10.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Bayer from Machelen (Brab.), company number BE0404754571, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 3.4 million after tax. For that financial year Bayer recorded revenue of € 175.2 million and equity of € 5.5 billion. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 893.2 million to € 3.4 million. The company is profitable. 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 June 24, 2026.
€ 5.5 billion
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 3.4 million
▼ € 889.7 million vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
Stays in the company
No dividend for 2025. Retained profit grew to € 4.6 billion.
People and assets in 2025
153.9
▼ 15.4 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 36.3 million
▲ 2% vs 2024
€ 235,600 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.
€ 160,932
▼ 17% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
None
No bank loans on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 8.4 million
▼ 34% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 28 days on average.
€ 13.5 million
▲ 51% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Revenue | € 219,477,829 | € 232,435,723 | € 229,961,593 | € 175,154,790 | ▼ 24% |
| Profit after taxes | € 5,385,168 | € 6,473,724 | € 893,152,490 | € 3,425,010 | ▼ € 889.7 million |
| Equity | € 11,768,138,578 | € 11,774,612,302 | € 5,530,764,792 | € 5,534,189,801 | |
| Total debts | € 66,650,240 | € 82,073,845 | € 43,096,550 | € 22,546,636 | ▼ 48% |
| Land & buildings | € 9,482,216 | € 18,406 | - | - | |
| Retained profit | € 3,678,569,898 | € 3,685,043,621 | € 4,578,196,111 | € 4,581,621,121 | |
| Balance sheet total | € 11,847,743,925 | € 11,859,001,314 | € 5,577,348,400 | € 5,558,700,105 | |
| Employees (FTE) | 214.9 | 183.2 | 169.3 | 153.9 | ▼ 15.4 |
Key figures of Bayer, 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 Bayer?
What happened at Bayer in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Tom Van Asbroeck stepped down as director. NBB
- Niels Hessmann stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 3.4 million (▼ € 889.7 million vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Tom Van Asbroeck became a director. NBB
- Patrick Lennaerts stepped down as director. NBB
- Niels Hessmann became a director. NBB
- Patrick Lennaerts became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Etterbeek. KBO
In short
From € 5.4 million profit in 2022 to € 3.4 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 9.6 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 893.2 million profit.
Pays suppliers within 28 days on average.
Management
The shares are held by Bayer Global Investments B.V. (73.5%) and Bayer BV (26.5%). It owns 100% of Bayer Cyprus Ltd. and 1.2% of Bayer SA itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
since 2025 · until 2031
Niels Hessmann
Managing director
since 2024 · until 2029
since 2023 · until 2025
Shareholders
Bayer Global Investments B.V.
73.5%
Bayer BV
26.5%
Participations
Bayer Cyprus Ltd.
100%
Bayer SA
1.2%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Kouterveldstraat 7A box 301
1831 Machelen (Brab.)
Belliardstraat 40
1040 Etterbeek
Active since 16 September 2016
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Details
- Company number
- 0404.754.571
- VAT number
- BE 0404.754.571
- Registered office
- Kouterveldstraat 7A bus 301, 1831 Machelen (Brab.)
- Names & denominations
- Bayer
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 20 July 1961
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 1 Jan 2001
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