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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 22 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Union Financière Boel from Brussel, company number BE0405761391, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 82.7 million after tax. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 156.7 million to € 82.7 million. The company is profitable. 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 May 27, 2026.
€ 1.3 billion
▲ 4% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 82.7 million
▼ 47% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 11.5 million
▲ 209% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 25.7 million paid out
31 % of the profit went to the shareholders, the rest stayed in the company.
People and assets in 2025
5.4
▼ 0.8 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.8 million
▼ 1% vs 2024
€ 329,100 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.
€ 23,179
▲ 202% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 30 million
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 53,633
▲ 193% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 18 days on average.
€ 487,481
▼ 3% vs 2024
Wages, holiday pay and social contributions still to pay. No outstanding taxes.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Profit after taxes | € 25,159,235 | € 137,162,221 | € 156,657,256 | € 82,704,361 | ▼ 47% |
| Equity | € 1,035,055,210 | € 1,149,321,431 | € 1,281,478,115 | € 1,338,457,904 | ▲ 4% |
| Total debts | € 22,374,980 | € 23,766,012 | € 26,083,353 | € 119,165,005 | ▲ € 93.1 million |
| Cash | € 14,162,366 | € 1,145,912 | € 3,737,005 | € 11,530,465 | ▲ 209% |
| Retained profit | € 1,027,352,330 | € 1,141,618,550 | € 1,273,775,235 | € 1,330,755,024 | ▲ 4% |
| Dividend | € 21,394,286 | € 22,896,000 | € 24,500,571 | € 25,724,571 | ▲ 5% |
| Bank debt | € 0 | € 0 | € 0 | € 30,000,000 | |
| Balance sheet total | € 1,057,430,190 | € 1,173,087,443 | € 1,307,561,468 | € 1,457,622,909 | ▲ 11% |
| Employees (FTE) | 6.1 | 6.2 | 6.2 | 5.4 | ▼ 0.8 |
Key figures of Union Financière Boel, 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 Union Financière Boel?
What happened at Union Financière Boel in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Nathalie BOËL stepped down as director. NBB
- de MEEÜS d'ARGENTEUIL Comte Ludovic stepped down as director. NBB
- BOËL Comte stepped down as director. NBB
- Alain LE JEUNE stepped down as director. NBB
- JANSSEN Baron Edouard stepped down as director. NBB
- GOBLET d'ALVIELLA Comte Félix stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 82.7 million (▼ 47% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Nathalie BOËL became a director. NBB
In short
From € 25.2 million profit in 2022 to € 82.7 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 444,419 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 156.7 million profit.
Paid out € 94.5 million in dividends to the owners in total.
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De Lijn 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025
filed on 8 June 2026
What was left
€ 20 k ▼ 91%
Money in the bank
€ 178 k ▼ 98%
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Management
The stake of KERDI, Société de Participations industrielles, L.B.P., COLL EARN, Mobilière et Immobilière du Centre, FRANQUENIES, VERRON BELGIUM, EMBILCO comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
Union Financière BoelThe shares are held by KERDI (5.6%), Société de Participations industrielles (4.9%), L.B.P. (2.1%), COLL EARN (1.6%), Mobilière et Immobilière du Centre (0.9%) and FRANQUENIES (0%). It owns 100% of COMPARFIN, 22.4% of SOFINA (chiffres consolidés), 8.9% of SOCIETE DE PARTICIPATIONS INDUSTRIELLES and 3.4% of MOBILIERE ET IMMOBILIERE DU CENTRE itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
since 2025 · until 2029
JANSSEN Baron Edouard
Director
since 2023 · until 2027
de MEEÜS d'ARGENTEUIL Comte Ludovic
Chairman of the board
Also active at: Société de Participations industrielles
since 2023 · until 2029
GOBLET d'ALVIELLA Comte Félix
Director
since 2021 · until 2027
since 2024 · until 2028
Alain LE JEUNE
Director
since 2022 · until 2028
Shareholders
5.6%
2.1%
1.6%
0%
0%
Participations
COMPARFIN
100%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Hertogsstraat 21
1000 Brussel
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Details
- Company number
- 0405.761.391
- VAT number
- BE 0405.761.391
- Registered office
- Hertogsstraat 21, 1000 Brussel
- Names & denominations
- Union Financière Boel
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 1 January 1957
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 20 Nov 2025
- Activities · NACE
Activiteiten van holdings
Financiële holdings
Holdings