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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 3 % of short-term debt in 2026; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2026
BREPOLS GROUP from Turnhout, company number BE0405671816, closed financial year 2026 with a result of € 4.5 million after tax. Compared with financial year 2025, the result moved from € 1.1 million to € 4.5 million. 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 September 21, 2026.
€ 26.5 million
▲ 20% vs 2025
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 4.5 million
▲ € 3.4 million vs 2025
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 200,601
▲ € 199,389 vs 2025
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Stays in the company
No dividend for 2026. Retained profit grew to € 5.1 million.
Debts at end 2026
€ 31.7 million
▼ 11% vs 2025
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
| 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | Change 2025 → 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Profit after taxes | € 2,849,812 | € 697,570 | € 1,085,208 | € 4,498,130 | ▲ € 3.4 million |
| Equity | € 20,206,932 | € 20,904,502 | € 21,989,710 | € 26,487,840 | ▲ 20% |
| Total debts | € 3,163,047 | € 37,379,677 | € 36,330,422 | € 31,906,890 | ▼ 12% |
| Cash | € 162,088 | € 18,625 | € 1,212 | € 200,601 | ▲ € 199,389 |
| Retained profit | € -1,172,143 | € -474,574 | € 610,634 | € 5,108,764 | ▲ € 4.5 million |
| Bank debt | € 3,000,000 | € 36,814,624 | € 35,501,169 | € 31,726,852 | ▼ 11% |
| Balance sheet total | € 23,369,979 | € 58,284,179 | € 58,320,132 | € 58,394,729 |
Key figures of BREPOLS GROUP, 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 BREPOLS GROUP?
What happened at BREPOLS GROUP in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Line Management BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Clarence CommV stepped down as director. NBB
- PdmC CommV stepped down as director. NBB
- Bismart SRL stepped down as director. NBB
- SJMG CommV stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2026: profit of € 4.5 million (▲ € 3.4 million vs 2025). Source: NBB ↗
- Jean-Louis de Cartier de Marchienne stepped down as director. NBB
- Beheer de Cartier BV stepped down as director. NBB
In short
From € 2.8 million profit in 2023 to € 4.5 million profit in 2026.
Best year ever: 2026, with € 4.5 million profit.
Management
The stake of LINE - MANAGEMENT comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
BREPOLS GROUPThe shares are held by LINE - MANAGEMENT (32.8%). It owns 100% of BREPOLS, 100% of BREPOLS PUBLISHERS and 50% of CARTA MUNDI itself.
Directors
According to the 2026 annual accounts
since 2025 · until 2029
Jean-Louis de Cartier de Marchienne
Chairman of the board
Also active at: HET PAVILJOEN, DE KRUISBERG, BREPOLS, ASSaPP
since 2020 · until 2026
Director · represented by Louis de Cartier de Marchienne
since 2020 · until 2026
since 2025 · until 2029
Director · represented by Stéphane de Cartier de Marchienne
since 2022 · until 2028
Director · represented by Martin de Cartier de Marchienne
since 2025 · until 2029
Director · represented by Baptiste de Cartier de Marchienne
Also active at: BREPOLS, BREPOLS PUBLISHERS
since 2024 · until 2030
Shareholders
32.8%
Participations
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Begijnhof 67
2300 Turnhout
Steenweg op Tielen 68
2300 Turnhout
Active since 25 July 1991
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 1 companies are registered at this address.
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Website
Technologies
Hosting & Email
Email provider
Microsoft 365
Hosting
MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK - Microsoft Corporation, US
Domain
Domain
brepols.net
Registered
2000-09-28
Registrar
Combell NV
Expires
2026-09-28
Website info
Features
Security
Details
- Company number
- 0405.671.816
- VAT number
- BE 0405.671.816
- Registered office
- Begijnhof 67, 2300 Turnhout
- Names & denominations
- BREPOLS GROUP
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 1 July 1911
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 16 Dec 2025
- Contact
- brepols.net
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