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Financials
Financial year 2025
GROEP LINDEN from Oostende, company number BE0405269265, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 780,520 after tax. For that financial year GROEP LINDEN recorded revenue of € 25.9 million and equity of € 7.2 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 685,876 to € 780,520. 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 August 31, 2026.
€ 7.2 million
▲ 6% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 780,520
▲ 14% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 3.7 million
▲ 38% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 250,000 paid out
32 % of the profit went to the shareholders, mostly to Autogroep Noordzee NV (99 % of the shares). That is where the money ends up.
People and assets in 2025
17.3
▲ 0.4 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.2 million
▼ 10% vs 2024
€ 67,300 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.
€ 56,886
▲ 138% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 190,378
▼ 20% vs 2024
€ 41,610 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 3 years.
€ 2.9 million
▼ 1% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 41 days on average.
€ 371,038
▲ 20% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 34,506,064 | € 35,189,057 | € 23,948,489 | € 25,891,354 | ▲ 8% |
| Profit after taxes | € 638,659 | € 564,408 | € 685,876 | € 780,520 | ▲ 14% |
| Equity | € 5,555,968 | € 6,120,376 | € 6,806,252 | € 7,236,772 | ▲ 6% |
| Total debts | € 10,433,025 | € 11,048,203 | € 4,754,328 | € 4,201,394 | ▼ 12% |
| Cash | € 3,483,493 | € 3,304,143 | € 2,682,905 | € 3,714,567 | ▲ 38% |
| Land & buildings | € 152,029 | € 137,657 | € 164,585 | € 142,951 | ▼ 13% |
| Retained profit | € 5,300,968 | € 5,865,376 | € 6,551,252 | € 6,981,772 | ▲ 7% |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 0 | € 0 | € 250,000 | |
| Bank debt | € 2,995,202 | € 1,539,429 | € 237,166 | € 190,378 | ▼ 20% |
| Balance sheet total | € 15,988,993 | € 17,168,579 | € 11,560,580 | € 11,438,166 | ▼ 1% |
| Employees (FTE) | 20.8 | 18.8 | 16.9 | 17.3 | ▲ 0.4 |
Key figures of GROEP LINDEN, 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 GROEP LINDEN?
What happened at GROEP LINDEN in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 780,520 (▲ 14% vs 2024). filed late Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Brugge. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
- New establishment in Oostende. KBO
In short
From € 638,659 profit in 2022 to € 780,520 profit in 2025.
Paid € 972,239 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 780,520 profit.
Paid out € 250,000 in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
Behind GROEP LINDEN are JERALEX BV, NL Invest BV, P&C Invest NV and Autogroep Noordzee NV. The shares are held by Autogroep Noordzee NV (99.3%). It owns 100% of Garage Deprez-Claus and 50% of Traen-Deprez itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Managing director · represented by Piet Linden
Also active at: NOORDZEE REAL ESTATE, HOTEL DU PARC OOSTENDE, GARAGE - CARROSSERIE DEPREZ - CLAUS, P & C-Invest, LAMOS, AUTOGROEP NOORDZEE, YASMINE, Du Parc Invest
Managing director · represented by Nicolas Linden
Also active at: P & C-Invest, AUTOGROEP NOORDZEE
Director · represented by Marc Linden
Director · represented by Dennis Cuyle
Also active at: NOORDZEE REAL ESTATE, P & C-Invest, LAMOS, ELVACENTER, ELVA HOLDING, MGMK HOLDING, YASMINE, Du Parc Invest
Shareholders
99.3%
Participations
100%
50%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Torhoutsesteenweg 691
8400 Oostende
Pathoekeweg 112
8000 Brugge
Active since 2 January 2018
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 12 companies are registered at this address.
All companies at this address →NOORDZEE REAL ESTATE same network
€ 150,213 gross margin · 2025
CARROSSERIECENTER PEEL NOORDZEE
€ 1.1 million gross margin · 2025
P & C-Invest same network
€ 285,977 gross margin · 2025
LAMOS same network
€ 264,252 gross margin · 2025
AUTOGROEP NOORDZEE same network
€ 439,000 revenue · 2025
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Details
- Company number
- 0405.269.265
- VAT number
- BE 0405.269.265
- Registered office
- Torhoutsesteenweg 691, 8400 Oostende
- Names & denominations
- GROEP LINDEN
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 1 January 1968
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 29 Nov 2025
- Activities · NACE
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