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Signals from the annual accounts, the CBE and the Official Gazette, each with its threshold and source. No score, no verdict.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 39.8 to 34.7.
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Figures corrected NBB
Corrected annual account filed for 2022.
Financials
Financial year 2024
Verbiest from Antwerpen, company number BE0407163636, closed financial year 2024 with a result of € 1.5 million after tax. For that financial year Verbiest recorded revenue of € 21.8 million and equity of € 1.1 million. Compared with financial year 2023, the result moved from € -110,890 to € 1.5 million. Profitable, and profit is growing. The buffer is growing. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on November 7, 2025.
€ 1.1 million
▲ 180% vs 2023
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 1.5 million
▲ still € 110,890 loss in 2023
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 167,395
▼ 71% vs 2023
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 500,000 paid out
34 % of the profit went to the shareholders, mostly to FOX HOLDINGS NV (90 % of the shares). That is where the money ends up.
People and assets in 2024
34.7
▼ 2.6 vs 2023
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 2.1 million
▼ 2% vs 2023
€ 60,100 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.
€ 299,723
▲ 98% vs 2023
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2024
€ 1.8 million
▼ 13% vs 2023
€ 651,297 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 1 years.
€ 3.6 million
▲ 22% vs 2023
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 65 days on average.
€ 382,368
▲ 4% vs 2023
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Change 2023 → 2024 | |
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| Revenue | € 25,206,571 | € 24,215,635 | € 23,086,971 | € 21,815,877 | ▼ 6% |
| Profit after taxes | € -975,802 | € -576,969 | € -110,890 | € 1,460,123 | ▲ € 1.6 million |
| Equity | € 1,100,394 | € 508,984 | € 383,812 | € 1,074,038 | ▲ 180% |
| Total debts | € 7,090,622 | € 7,225,924 | € 7,103,652 | € 8,524,941 | ▲ 20% |
| Cash | € 311,454 | € 473,773 | € 570,079 | € 167,395 | ▼ 71% |
| Land & buildings | € 945,079 | € 833,877 | € 720,997 | - | |
| Retained profit | € 599,139 | € 67,830 | € 2,601 | € 1,008,384 | ▲ € 1 million |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 0 | € 0 | € 500,000 | |
| Bank debt | € 2,877,577 | € 2,578,328 | € 2,018,279 | € 1,750,434 | ▼ 13% |
| Balance sheet total | € 8,245,935 | € 7,770,014 | € 7,517,809 | € 9,656,015 | ▲ 28% |
| Employees (FTE) | 39.1 | 39.8 | 37.3 | 34.7 | ▼ 2.6 |
Key figures of Verbiest, fiscal years 2021 to 2024, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.The annual account for fiscal year 2025 has not been filed yet; it was expected before 31 July 2026.
What happened to Verbiest?
What happened at Verbiest in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- FOX HOLDINGS NV stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2024: profit of € 1.5 million. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- TRANSAQUA NV stepped down as director. NBB
- FOX HOLDINGS NV became a director. NBB
- TRANSAQUA NV became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Antwerpen. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 975,802 loss in 2021 to € 1.5 million profit in 2024.
Paid € 4,360 in corporate taxes since 2021.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 1.5 million profit.
Paid out € 500,000 in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
The shares are held by FOX HOLDINGS NV (90%) and ZEEVISHANDEL MERCUUR IJMUIDEN BV (0.5%).
Directors
According to the 2024 annual accounts
Managing director · represented by Rosemarie VAN DUIJN
Also active at: DANIEL'S VISBEDRIJF, Multi-Fish Frozen, VVO, MOSSELMAN SEAFOOD, Multi-Fish
since 2022 · until 2028
Director · represented by Thomas Van Nieuwkerk
since 2019 · until 2025
Shareholders
90%
ZEEVISHANDEL MERCUUR IJMUIDEN BV
0.5%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Maccabilaan 13
2660 Antwerpen
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 2 companies are registered at this address.
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Website
Technologies
Hosting & Email
Email provider
Microsoft 365
Hosting
LEASEWEB-NL-AMS-01 Netherlands, NL
Domain
Domain
verbiest-vis.be
Registered
2000-10-11
Website info
Features
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Details
- Company number
- 0407.163.636
- VAT number
- BE 0407.163.636
- Registered office
- Maccabilaan 13, 2660 Antwerpen
- Names & denominations
- Verbiest
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 1 May 1970
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 20 Nov 2025
- Contact
- verbiest-vis.be
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