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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 4.6 to 3.9.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Het Metaal from Sint-Niklaas, company number BE0405043690, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 241,768 after tax. For that financial year Het Metaal recorded a gross margin of € 714,482 and equity of € 2.1 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 121,588 to € 241,768. 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 June 29, 2026.
€ 2.1 million
▲ 14% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 241,768
▲ 99% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 609,916
▲ 10% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Stays in the company
No dividend for 2025. Retained profit grew to € 2 million.
People and assets in 2025
3.9
▼ 0.4 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 239,638
▼ 15% vs 2024
€ 61,400 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.
€ 28,383
▼ 44% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 43,750
▼ 55% vs 2024
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 169,912
▼ 16% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 78,460
▲ 19% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 715,475 | € 504,124 | € 639,699 | € 714,482 | ▲ 12% |
| Profit after taxes | € 222,570 | € 28,895 | € 121,588 | € 241,768 | ▲ 99% |
| Equity | € 2,052,721 | € 1,882,400 | € 1,844,795 | € 2,100,063 | ▲ 14% |
| Total debts | € 778,016 | € 647,609 | € 592,662 | € 469,449 | ▼ 21% |
| Cash | € 1,148,687 | € 726,586 | € 556,147 | € 609,916 | ▲ 10% |
| Land & buildings | € 470,446 | € 382,785 | € 287,110 | € 260,382 | ▼ 9% |
| Retained profit | € 1,991,221 | € 1,820,900 | € 1,783,295 | € 2,038,563 | ▲ 14% |
| Dividend | € 158,838 | € 199,217 | € 159,193 | € 0 | ▼ 100% |
| Bank debt | € 201,250 | € 148,750 | € 96,250 | € 43,750 | ▼ 55% |
| Balance sheet total | € 2,860,788 | € 2,554,543 | € 2,456,474 | € 2,569,512 | ▲ 5% |
| Employees (FTE) | 4.8 | 4.6 | 4.3 | 3.9 | ▼ 0.4 |
Key figures of Het Metaal, 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 Het Metaal?
What happened at Het Metaal in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Evelien Tavernier stepped down as director. NBB
- Sodemco BV stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 241,768 (▲ 99% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Evelien Tavernier became a director. NBB
- Sodemco BV became a director. NBB
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
- New establishment in Sint-Niklaas. KBO
In short
From € 222,570 profit in 2022 to € 241,768 profit in 2025.
Paid € 252,112 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 241,768 profit.
On average € 183,200 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Evelien Tavernier
Director
since 2026 · until 2032
Director · represented by De Meyer Sophie
since 2023 · until 2029
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Europark-Zuid 20
9100 Sint-Niklaas
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 1 companies are registered at this address.
All companies at this address →What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Website
Technologies
Hosting & Email
Email provider
Microsoft 365
Hosting
COMBELL-AS, BE
Website info
Features
Security
Details
- Company number
- 0405.043.690
- VAT number
- BE 0405.043.690
- Registered office
- Europark-Zuid 20, 9100 Sint-Niklaas
- Names & denominations
- Het Metaal
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 1 January 1968
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 1 Jan 2001
- Contact
- hetmetaal.be [email protected] 037760181
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