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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2025 and 2026.
Financials
Financial year 2026
Brouwerij van Eecke from Poperinge, company number BE0405467027, closed financial year 2026 with a result of € -372,556 after tax. For that financial year Brouwerij van Eecke recorded a gross margin of € 771,306 and equity of € 1.2 million. Compared with financial year 2025, the result moved from € -9,247 to € -372,556. The company made a loss. The company holds a healthy buffer. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on September 10, 2026.
€ 1.2 million
▼ 24% vs 2025
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -372,556
▼ 3929 % more loss than in 2025
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 44,326
▼ 53% vs 2025
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 1.1 million.
People and assets in 2026
8.9
▼ 0.3 vs 2025
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 554,977
▲ 7% vs 2025
€ 62,400 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.
€ 115,721
▼ 20% vs 2025
Of which on lease € 64,683.
Debts at end 2026
€ 235,625
▼ 32% vs 2025
€ 108,750 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 2 years.
€ 1.4 million
▲ 96% vs 2025
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 143,045
▲ 16% vs 2025
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | Change 2025 → 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 970,440 | € 961,199 | € 1,069,438 | € 771,306 | ▼ 28% |
| Profit after taxes | € 150,560 | € 160,483 | € -9,247 | € -372,556 | ▼ € 363,308 |
| Equity | € 1,488,373 | € 1,648,856 | € 1,541,759 | € 1,169,203 | ▼ 24% |
| Total debts | € 1,763,252 | € 2,256,277 | € 1,910,754 | € 2,540,433 | ▲ 33% |
| Cash | € 26,143 | € 84,858 | € 95,198 | € 44,326 | ▼ 53% |
| Land & buildings | € 414,226 | € 436,635 | € 402,338 | € 368,102 | ▼ 9% |
| Retained profit | € 1,386,736 | € 1,547,219 | € 1,440,122 | € 1,067,566 | ▼ 26% |
| Dividend | € 87,000 | € 0 | € 97,849 | € 0 | ▼ 100% |
| Bank debt | € 80,000 | € 0 | € 344,375 | € 235,625 | ▼ 32% |
| Balance sheet total | € 3,251,625 | € 3,905,133 | € 3,452,513 | € 3,709,636 | ▲ 7% |
| Employees (FTE) | 8.5 | 6.9 | 9.2 | 8.9 | ▼ 0.3 |
Key figures of Brouwerij van Eecke, fiscal years 2023 to 2026, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2027) expected before 31 October 2027.
What happened to Brouwerij van Eecke?
What happened at Brouwerij van Eecke in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Philip Leroy stepped down as director. NBB
- Bruno Leroy stepped down as director. NBB
- Karel Leroy stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2026: loss of € 372,556. Source: NBB ↗
- Bruno Leroy became a director. NBB
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
- New establishment in Poperinge. KBO
In short
From € 150,560 profit in 2023 to € 372,556 loss in 2026.
Paid € 98,252 in corporate taxes since 2023.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 160,483 profit.
On average € 86,700 of value added per employee in 2026.
Management
The stake of I.L.B comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
Brouwerij van EeckeThe shares are held by I.L.B (97%).
Directors
According to the 2026 annual accounts
Karel Leroy
Director
Also active at: BROUWERIJ HET SAS, LEROY, BROUWERIJ VAN EECKE, Brouwerij De Kazematten
· until 2028
Philip Leroy
Managing director
Also active at: MARKT 22, BROUWERIJ HET SAS, I.L.B, DIKSMUIDSE DRANKENHANDEL, LEROY, BROUWERIJ VAN EECKE
· until 2030
since 2024 · until 2030
Shareholders
97%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Douvieweg 2
8978 Poperinge
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0405.467.027
- VAT number
- BE 0405.467.027
- Registered office
- Douvieweg 2, 8978 Poperinge
- Names & denominations
- Brouwerij van Eecke
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 10 July 1962
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 21 Oct 2026
- Activities · NACE
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