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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 61 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
CARGILL NV from Mechelen, company number BE0405546706, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -3.4 million after tax. For that financial year CARGILL NV recorded revenue of € 13.4 billion and equity of € 494.3 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 210.4 million to € -3.4 million. 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 December 4, 2025.
€ 494.3 million
▼ 1% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -3.4 million
▼ still € 210.4 million profit in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 8.5 million
▲ 5% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 340.7 million.
People and assets in 2025
992.8
▲ 46.9 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 152.3 million
▼ 3% vs 2024
€ 153,400 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.
€ 1.9 million
▼ 9% vs 2024
Of which on lease € 855,291.
Debts at end 2025
€ 679.8 million
▼ 19% vs 2024
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 1.1 billion
▲ 30% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 31 days on average.
€ 104.3 million
▼ 43% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 8,966,926,211 | € 12,771,730,419 | € 12,220,951,534 | € 13,354,235,437 | ▲ 9% |
| Profit after taxes | € 29,282,166 | € 95,242,014 | € 210,419,192 | € -3,370,665 | ▼ € 213.8 million |
| Equity | € 192,050,099 | € 287,292,113 | € 497,711,305 | € 494,340,640 | ▼ 1% |
| Total debts | € 2,175,043,019 | € 2,058,967,868 | € 1,882,073,694 | € 1,910,242,396 | ▲ 1% |
| Cash | € 30,537,317 | € 4,183,599 | € 8,137,782 | € 8,519,018 | ▲ 5% |
| Land & buildings | € 18,189,926 | € 17,362,549 | € 35,754,811 | € 39,939,258 | ▲ 12% |
| Retained profit | € 38,382,877 | € 133,624,891 | € 344,044,083 | € 340,673,418 | ▼ 1% |
| Bank debt | € 808,761,220 | € 728,851,303 | € 836,300,420 | € 679,807,304 | ▼ 19% |
| Balance sheet total | € 2,426,838,494 | € 2,370,118,210 | € 2,535,836,411 | € 2,462,491,044 | ▼ 3% |
| Employees (FTE) | 837.9 | 894.7 | 945.9 | 992.8 | ▲ 46.9 |
Key figures of CARGILL NV, 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 December 2026.
What happened to CARGILL NV?
What happened at CARGILL NV in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Jeroen Fischer stepped down as director. NBB
- Geert Maesmans stepped down as director. NBB
- Franck Monmont stepped down as director. NBB
- New establishment in Izegem. KBO
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 3.4 million (▼ € 213.8 million vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Kalmthout. KBO
- Geert Maesmans became a director. NBB
- Mario Engels stepped down as director. NBB
In short
From € 29.3 million profit in 2022 to € 3.4 million loss in 2025.
Paid € 115.4 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 210.4 million profit.
Pays suppliers within 31 days on average.
Management
The shares are held by Cargill International Luxembourg 3 SARL (72.4%) and Cargill International Luxembourg 2 SARL (27.6%). It owns 100% of Cargill Oil Packers, 100% of Smet Productions, 100% of Smet Chocolaterie, 100% of Cargill R&D Centre Europe and 20% of Ghent Renewables itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Jeroen Fischer
Director
since 2021 · until 2027
Lieve Beyen
Managing director
Also active at: LEMAN DECORATIONS BELGIUM, SMET CHOCOLATERIE, CARGILL CHOCOLATE BELGIUM, Smet Productions
since 2021 · until 2024
Geert Maesmans
Managing director
Also active at: Cargill R&D Centre Europe, Microwave Energy Applications Management
since 2025 · until 2027
since 2022 · until 2027
Mario Engels
Director
since 2021 · until 2025
Shareholders
Cargill International Luxembourg 3 SARL
72.4%
Cargill International Luxembourg 2 SARL
27.6%
Participations
100%
100%
100%
20%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Bedrijvenlaan 7-9
2800 Mechelen
Muisbroeklaan 43 box 506
2030 Antwerpen
Active since 13 February 1997
Moervaartkaai 1
9042 Gent
Active since 17 February 1997
Prins Albertlaan 12
8870 Izegem
Active since 1 April 1999
Gustave Fachedreef(L) 13
7700 Mouscron
Active since 1 September 2008
Moervaartkaai 12
9042 Gent
Active since 1 April 2015
Levend Waterlaan(L) 4
7700 Mouscron
Active since 1 January 2022
Haureulaan(L) 2
7700 Mouscron
Active since 1 June 2024
Onderzeel (C) 1
2920 Kalmthout
Active since 1 June 2025
Noordkaai 6
8870 Izegem
Active since 1 January 2026
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- Company number
- 0405.546.706
- VAT number
- BE 0405.546.706
- Registered office
- Bedrijvenlaan 7-9, 2800 Mechelen
- Names & denominations
- CARGILL NV · CARGILL
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 1 January 1968
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 7 Jul 2025
- Contact
- cargill.be
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