What is the address of Van Laere?

The registered office of Van Laere is located at Baarbeek 14, 2070 Beveren-Kruibeke-Zwijndrecht.

Is Van Laere still active?

Yes. According to the CBE (29 October 2026) Van Laere is active, legal situation “Normale toestand”, started on 27 January 1938.

Is Van Laere registered on Peppol?

Yes, Van Laere is registered on the Peppol network with ID 0208:0405073285.

What is the enterprise number of Van Laere?

The enterprise number of Van Laere is BE0405073285.

When was Van Laere founded?

Van Laere was founded on 27 January 1938.

Who are the directors of Van Laere?

According to the 2025 annual accounts, the directors of Van Laere are: MSQ BV, Carduus Consulting BV, Collin Steyaert, Trorema BV, Lamcy BV.

Is Van Laere a reliable company?

Databakkes does not pass judgement; this is what the sources say: Active according to the CBE since 27 January 1938; 5 annual accounts filed, latest fiscal year 2025; 5 directors known from the annual account.

How much profit did Van Laere make in 2025?

Van Laere posted a profit after taxes of € 1,689,087 in financial year 2025.

What is the revenue of Van Laere?

In its most recent annual accounts (2025), Van Laere reported revenue of € 184,671,715.

How much does an employee at Van Laere earn?

The average wage cost per full-time employee at Van Laere was € 84,800 in 2025: staff costs of € 17.1 million for 201 FTE, according to the annual account at the National Bank. That is the employer's cost, not net pay.

How many employees does Van Laere have?

According to the 2025 annual accounts, Van Laere has 201 full-time equivalents (FTE).

Van Laere (Public Limited) - Beveren-Kruibeke-Zwijndrecht

Q: What does Van Laere do?

Van Laere is registered with the CBE as active in: Optrekken van andere residentiële gebouwen en van kantoorgebouwen. Public Limited, started on 27 January 1938, 1 establishment.

Dossier Van Laere, printed on 29 October 2026 from databakkes.be/en/0405073285/van-laere. Sources: CBE, National Bank of Belgium, Belgian Official Gazette.

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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.

Figures corrected NBB

Corrected annual account filed for 2023.

Financials

Financial year 2025

Van Laere from Beveren-Kruibeke-Zwijndrecht, company number BE0405073285, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 1.7 million after tax. For that financial year Van Laere recorded revenue of € 184.7 million and equity of € 12.7 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 3.1 million to € 1.7 million. The company is profitable. 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 10, 2026.

What it is worth Growing

€ 12.7 million

▲ 15% vs 2024

Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.

Profit Healthy

€ 1.7 million

▼ 45% vs 2024

Profit after tax over the fiscal year.

Cash in the bank

€ 4.4 million

▲ 11% vs 2024

Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.

Where the profit goes Growing

Stays in the company

No dividend for 2025. Retained profit grew to € 6.3 million.

People and assets in 2025

Full-time equivalents

201

▼ 0.8 vs 2024

Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.

Wage cost Staff costs are payroll only. Director pay sits with services and miscellaneous goods: € 36.3 million in 2025, together with rent, insurance, accountants and other services. The accounts do not split that further.

€ 17.1 million

▲ 9% vs 2024

€ 84,800 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.

Vehicles and equipment

€ 269,396

▼ 34% vs 2024

Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.

Debts at end 2025

Bank debt ≈ 15 years to go The accounts give the long-term loan and the part due within the year. The remainder divided by that part is the number of years at an equal pace; a new loan or early repayment changes it.

€ 470,033

▼ 6% vs 2024

€ 32,354 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 15 years.

Owed to suppliers

€ 55.2 million

▲ 5% vs 2024

Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 119 days on average.

Taxes and wages

€ 1.7 million

▼ 2% vs 2024

Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.

Key figures per fiscal year Download key figures (CSV)
	2022	2023	2024	2025	Change 2024 → 2025
Revenue	€ 141,484,759 Revenue 2022: € 141,484,759 First fiscal year in the series	€ 138,538,123 Revenue 2023: € 138,538,123 ▼ 2% vs 2022 (€ 141,484,759) Unfavourable step	€ 153,257,243 Revenue 2024: € 153,257,243 ▲ 11% vs 2023 (€ 138,538,123) Favourable step	€ 184,671,715 Revenue 2025: € 184,671,715 ▲ 20% vs 2024 (€ 153,257,243) Favourable step	▲ 20%
Profit after taxes	€ 879,869 Profit after taxes 2022: € 879,869 First fiscal year in the series	€ -4,551 Profit after taxes 2023: € -4,551 ▼ € 884,420 vs 2022 (€ 879,869) Unfavourable step	€ 3,070,310 Profit after taxes 2024: € 3,070,310 ▲ € 3.1 million vs 2023 (€ -4,551) Favourable step	€ 1,689,087 Profit after taxes 2025: € 1,689,087 ▼ 45% vs 2024 (€ 3,070,310) Unfavourable step	▼ 45%
Equity	€ 7,781,331 Equity 2022: € 7,781,331 First fiscal year in the series	€ 7,943,613 Equity 2023: € 7,943,613 ▲ 2% vs 2022 (€ 7,781,331) Favourable step	€ 11,013,923 Equity 2024: € 11,013,923 ▲ 39% vs 2023 (€ 7,943,613) Favourable step	€ 12,703,010 Equity 2025: € 12,703,010 ▲ 15% vs 2024 (€ 11,013,923) Favourable step	▲ 15%
Total debts	€ 62,471,593 Total debts 2022: € 62,471,593 First fiscal year in the series	€ 67,640,059 Total debts 2023: € 67,640,059 ▲ 8% vs 2022 (€ 62,471,593) Unfavourable step	€ 85,587,481 Total debts 2024: € 85,587,481 ▲ 27% vs 2023 (€ 67,640,059) Unfavourable step	€ 82,751,388 Total debts 2025: € 82,751,388 ▼ 3% vs 2024 (€ 85,587,481) Favourable step	▼ 3%
Cash	€ 8,212,674 Cash 2022: € 8,212,674 First fiscal year in the series	€ 7,176,304 Cash 2023: € 7,176,304 ▼ 13% vs 2022 (€ 8,212,674) Unfavourable step	€ 3,972,230 Cash 2024: € 3,972,230 ▼ 45% vs 2023 (€ 7,176,304) Unfavourable step	€ 4,397,405 Cash 2025: € 4,397,405 ▲ 11% vs 2024 (€ 3,972,230) Favourable step	▲ 11%
Land & buildings	€ 598,319 Land & buildings 2022: € 598,319 First fiscal year in the series	€ 590,115 Land & buildings 2023: € 590,115 ▼ 1% vs 2022 (€ 598,319) Unchanged	€ 586,989 Land & buildings 2024: € 586,989 ▼ 1% vs 2023 (€ 590,115) Unchanged	€ 567,090 Land & buildings 2025: € 567,090 ▼ 3% vs 2024 (€ 586,989) Unchanged	▼ 3%
Retained profit	€ 1,530,931 Retained profit 2022: € 1,530,931 First fiscal year in the series	€ 1,526,380 Retained profit 2023: € 1,526,380 Unchanged (€ 1,530,931) Unfavourable step	€ 4,596,689 Retained profit 2024: € 4,596,689 ▲ 201% vs 2023 (€ 1,526,380) Favourable step	€ 6,285,777 Retained profit 2025: € 6,285,777 ▲ 37% vs 2024 (€ 4,596,689) Favourable step	▲ 37%
Bank debt	€ 5,767,090 Bank debt 2022: € 5,767,090 First fiscal year in the series	€ 4,531,170 Bank debt 2023: € 4,531,170 ▼ 21% vs 2022 (€ 5,767,090) Favourable step	€ 501,182 Bank debt 2024: € 501,182 ▼ 89% vs 2023 (€ 4,531,170) Favourable step	€ 470,033 Bank debt 2025: € 470,033 ▼ 6% vs 2024 (€ 501,182) Favourable step	▼ 6%
Balance sheet total	€ 72,890,560 Balance sheet total 2022: € 72,890,560 First fiscal year in the series	€ 77,879,497 Balance sheet total 2023: € 77,879,497 ▲ 7% vs 2022 (€ 72,890,560) Unchanged	€ 98,529,356 Balance sheet total 2024: € 98,529,356 ▲ 27% vs 2023 (€ 77,879,497) Unchanged	€ 99,954,851 Balance sheet total 2025: € 99,954,851 ▲ 1% vs 2024 (€ 98,529,356) Unchanged	▲ 1%
Employees (FTE)	222.5 Employees (FTE) 2022: 222.5 First fiscal year in the series	209.4 Employees (FTE) 2023: 209.4 ▼ 13.1 vs 2022 (222.5) Unchanged	201.8 Employees (FTE) 2024: 201.8 ▼ 7.6 vs 2023 (209.4) Unchanged	201 Employees (FTE) 2025: 201 ▼ 0.8 vs 2024 (201.8) Unchanged	▼ 0.8

Key figures of Van Laere, 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 Laere?

What happened at Van Laere in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:

2029 MSQ BV stepped down as director. NBB
2029 Carduus Consulting BV stepped down as director. NBB
2029 Collin Steyaert stepped down as director. NBB
2029 Trorema BV stepped down as director. NBB
2029 Lamcy BV stepped down as director. NBB
Jun 10, 2026 New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 1.7 million (▼ 45% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
2026 Lamcy BV became a director. NBB
2024 Collin Steyaert became a director. NBB

In short

From € 879,869 profit in 2022 to € 1.7 million profit in 2025.

Paid € 485,473 in corporate taxes since 2022.

Best year ever: 2024, with € 3.1 million profit.

Pays suppliers within 119 days on average.

Original PDFs at the National Bank ↗

Management

CFE Contracting NV 100%

Van Laere

VANDENDORPE 100%

WEFIMA 100%

HOFKOUTER 35%

LIGHTHOUSE PARKINGS 33.3%

The shares are held by CFE Contracting NV (100%). It owns 100% of VANDENDORPE, 100% of WEFIMA, 35% of HOFKOUTER and 33.3% of LIGHTHOUSE PARKINGS itself.