What does Royal Antwerp Zoo Foundation do?

Royal Antwerp Zoo Foundation is registered with the CBE as active in: Botanische tuinen, dierentuinen en natuurreservaten. Non-profit, started on 18 November 1946, 3 establishments.

What is the address of Royal Antwerp Zoo Foundation?

The registered office of Royal Antwerp Zoo Foundation is located at Koningin Astridplein 26, 2018 Antwerpen.

Is Royal Antwerp Zoo Foundation still active?

Yes. According to the CBE (22 September 2026) Royal Antwerp Zoo Foundation is active, legal situation “Normale toestand”, started on 18 November 1946.

Is Royal Antwerp Zoo Foundation registered on Peppol?

Yes, Royal Antwerp Zoo Foundation is registered on the Peppol network with ID 0208:0407186105.

What is the enterprise number of Royal Antwerp Zoo Foundation?

The enterprise number of Royal Antwerp Zoo Foundation is BE0407186105.

When was Royal Antwerp Zoo Foundation founded?

Royal Antwerp Zoo Foundation was founded on 18 November 1946.

Who are the directors of Royal Antwerp Zoo Foundation?

According to the 2025 annual accounts, the directors of Royal Antwerp Zoo Foundation are: LUCIEN GIJSENS, NATHALIE VERMEERSCH, JOHAN CATTERSEL, HERWIG LEIRS, CHRISTA VAN GINNEKEN, CHRISTINE CLAUS, AUGUSTIJN PEETERS, ANNE BARÉ.

Is Royal Antwerp Zoo Foundation a reliable company?

Databakkes does not pass judgement; this is what the sources say: Active according to the CBE since 18 November 1946; 5 annual accounts filed, latest fiscal year 2025; 8 directors known from the annual account; 3 establishments in the CBE.

How much profit did Royal Antwerp Zoo Foundation make in 2025?

Royal Antwerp Zoo Foundation posted a profit after taxes of € 1,529,189 in financial year 2025.

What is the revenue of Royal Antwerp Zoo Foundation?

In its most recent annual accounts (2025), Royal Antwerp Zoo Foundation reported revenue of € 43,735,044.

How much does an employee at Royal Antwerp Zoo Foundation earn?

The average wage cost per full-time employee at Royal Antwerp Zoo Foundation was € 75,800 in 2025: staff costs of € 28.9 million for 381.6 FTE, according to the annual account at the National Bank. That is the employer's cost, not net pay.

How many employees does Royal Antwerp Zoo Foundation have?

According to the 2025 annual accounts, Royal Antwerp Zoo Foundation has 381.6 full-time equivalents (FTE).

Does Royal Antwerp Zoo Foundation have a website?

Yes, Royal Antwerp Zoo Foundation has a website at zooantwerpen.be.

Royal Antwerp Zoo Foundation (Non-profit) - Antwerpen

Dossier Royal Antwerp Zoo Foundation, printed on 22 September 2026 from databakkes.be/en/0407186105/royal-antwerp-zoo-foundation. Sources: CBE, National Bank of Belgium, Belgian Official Gazette.

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Tight liquidity NBB

Cash and receivables cover 59 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Figures corrected NBB

Corrected annual account filed for 2025.

Financials

Financial year 2025

Royal Antwerp Zoo Foundation from Antwerpen, company number BE0407186105, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 1.5 million after tax. For that financial year Royal Antwerp Zoo Foundation recorded revenue of € 43.7 million and equity of € 106.5 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 2.4 million to € 1.5 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 September 15, 2026.

What it is worth Growing

€ 106.5 million

Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.

Profit Healthy

€ 1.5 million

▼ 37% vs 2024

Profit after tax over the fiscal year.

Cash in the bank

€ 3.5 million

▼ 36% vs 2024

Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.

People and assets in 2025

Full-time equivalents

381.6

▼ 1.1 vs 2024

Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.

Wage cost Staff costs are payroll only. Director pay sits with services and miscellaneous goods: € 21.7 million in 2025, together with rent, insurance, accountants and other services. The accounts do not split that further.

€ 28.9 million

▲ 2% vs 2024

€ 75,800 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.

Vehicles and equipment

€ 734,234

▼ 23% vs 2024

Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.

Debts at end 2025

Bank debt ≈ 17 years to go The accounts give the long-term loan and the part due within the year. The remainder divided by that part is the number of years at an equal pace; a new loan or early repayment changes it.

€ 21.5 million

▼ 5% vs 2024

€ 1.2 million is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 17 years.

Owed to suppliers

€ 5 million

▲ 14% vs 2024

Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 69 days on average.

Taxes and wages

€ 4.3 million

▲ 6% vs 2024

Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.

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Key figures per fiscal year Download key figures (CSV)
	2022	2023	2024	2025	Change 2024 → 2025
Revenue	€ 38,751,575 Revenue 2022: € 38,751,575 First fiscal year in the series	€ 41,188,873 Revenue 2023: € 41,188,873 ▲ 6% vs 2022 (€ 38,751,575) Favourable step	€ 42,532,538 Revenue 2024: € 42,532,538 ▲ 3% vs 2023 (€ 41,188,873) Favourable step	€ 43,735,044 Revenue 2025: € 43,735,044 ▲ 3% vs 2024 (€ 42,532,538) Favourable step	▲ 3%
Profit after taxes	€ 8,423,209 Profit after taxes 2022: € 8,423,209 First fiscal year in the series	€ 6,143,934 Profit after taxes 2023: € 6,143,934 ▼ 27% vs 2022 (€ 8,423,209) Unfavourable step	€ 2,413,323 Profit after taxes 2024: € 2,413,323 ▼ 61% vs 2023 (€ 6,143,934) Unfavourable step	€ 1,529,189 Profit after taxes 2025: € 1,529,189 ▼ 37% vs 2024 (€ 2,413,323) Unfavourable step	▼ 37%
Equity	€ 100,181,981 Equity 2022: € 100,181,981 First fiscal year in the series	€ 104,868,941 Equity 2023: € 104,868,941 ▲ 5% vs 2022 (€ 100,181,981) Favourable step	€ 106,397,124 Equity 2024: € 106,397,124 ▲ 1% vs 2023 (€ 104,868,941) Favourable step	€ 106,535,917 Equity 2025: € 106,535,917 Unchanged (€ 106,397,124) Favourable step
Total debts	€ 23,418,635 Total debts 2022: € 23,418,635 First fiscal year in the series	€ 39,607,815 Total debts 2023: € 39,607,815 ▲ 69% vs 2022 (€ 23,418,635) Unfavourable step	€ 39,863,754 Total debts 2024: € 39,863,754 ▲ 1% vs 2023 (€ 39,607,815) Unfavourable step	€ 38,937,727 Total debts 2025: € 38,937,727 ▼ 2% vs 2024 (€ 39,863,754) Favourable step	▼ 2%
Cash	€ 15,264,562 Cash 2022: € 15,264,562 First fiscal year in the series	€ 10,327,492 Cash 2023: € 10,327,492 ▼ 32% vs 2022 (€ 15,264,562) Unfavourable step	€ 5,516,132 Cash 2024: € 5,516,132 ▼ 47% vs 2023 (€ 10,327,492) Unfavourable step	€ 3,507,164 Cash 2025: € 3,507,164 ▼ 36% vs 2024 (€ 5,516,132) Unfavourable step	▼ 36%
Land & buildings	€ 41,105,607 Land & buildings 2022: € 41,105,607 First fiscal year in the series	€ 38,856,046 Land & buildings 2023: € 38,856,046 ▼ 5% vs 2022 (€ 41,105,607) Unchanged	€ 39,346,658 Land & buildings 2024: € 39,346,658 ▲ 1% vs 2023 (€ 38,856,046) Unchanged	€ 42,361,311 Land & buildings 2025: € 42,361,311 ▲ 8% vs 2024 (€ 39,346,658) Unchanged	▲ 8%
Retained profit	€ 47,704,579 Retained profit 2022: € 47,704,579 First fiscal year in the series	€ 53,848,513 Retained profit 2023: € 53,848,513 ▲ 13% vs 2022 (€ 47,704,579) Favourable step	€ 56,261,835 Retained profit 2024: € 56,261,835 ▲ 4% vs 2023 (€ 53,848,513) Favourable step	€ 57,791,024 Retained profit 2025: € 57,791,024 ▲ 3% vs 2024 (€ 56,261,835) Favourable step	▲ 3%
Bank debt	€ 9,049,039 Bank debt 2022: € 9,049,039 First fiscal year in the series	€ 22,851,576 Bank debt 2023: € 22,851,576 ▲ 153% vs 2022 (€ 9,049,039) Unfavourable step	€ 22,562,784 Bank debt 2024: € 22,562,784 ▼ 1% vs 2023 (€ 22,851,576) Favourable step	€ 21,520,353 Bank debt 2025: € 21,520,353 ▼ 5% vs 2024 (€ 22,562,784) Favourable step	▼ 5%
Balance sheet total	€ 124,336,168 Balance sheet total 2022: € 124,336,168 First fiscal year in the series	€ 145,159,579 Balance sheet total 2023: € 145,159,579 ▲ 17% vs 2022 (€ 124,336,168) Unchanged	€ 146,615,181 Balance sheet total 2024: € 146,615,181 ▲ 1% vs 2023 (€ 145,159,579) Unchanged	€ 145,716,898 Balance sheet total 2025: € 145,716,898 ▼ 1% vs 2024 (€ 146,615,181) Unchanged	▼ 1%
Employees (FTE)	366.1 Employees (FTE) 2022: 366.1 First fiscal year in the series	376.3 Employees (FTE) 2023: 376.3 ▲ 10.2 vs 2022 (366.1) Unchanged	382.7 Employees (FTE) 2024: 382.7 ▲ 6.4 vs 2023 (376.3) Unchanged	381.6 Employees (FTE) 2025: 381.6 ▼ 1.1 vs 2024 (382.7) Unchanged	▼ 1.1

Key figures of Royal Antwerp Zoo Foundation, 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 Royal Antwerp Zoo Foundation?

What happened at Royal Antwerp Zoo Foundation in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:

2031 ANNE BARÉ stepped down as director. NBB
2029 LUCIEN GIJSENS stepped down as director. NBB
2029 NATHALIE VERMEERSCH stepped down as director. NBB
2029 CHRISTA VAN GINNEKEN stepped down as director. NBB
2029 AUGUSTIJN PEETERS stepped down as director. NBB
2027 JOHAN CATTERSEL stepped down as director. NBB
2027 CHRISTINE CLAUS stepped down as director. NBB
Sep 15, 2026 Corrected annual accounts filed for financial year 2025. filed late Source: NBB ↗

In short

From € 8.4 million profit in 2022 to € 1.5 million profit in 2025.

Paid € 15,781 in corporate taxes since 2022.

Best year ever: 2022, with € 8.4 million profit.

Pays suppliers within 69 days on average.

Original PDFs at the National Bank ↗

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Management

Directors

According to the 2025 annual accounts

LUCIEN GIJSENS

Director

Also active at: Lanson Industries Plant I, Immo Genics, Serax Immo, Arvesta, WBC, SIRIUS PROJECTS, Five Stars Properties

since 2025 · until 2029

NATHALIE VERMEERSCH

Vice-chairman of the board

Also active at: REPTIELENLAND BLANKENBERGE, Koninklijke Maatschappij voor Dierkunde van Antwerpen

since 2023 · until 2029

JOHAN CATTERSEL

Director

Also active at: Koninklijke Maatschappij Voor Dierkunde Van Antwerpen Onroerend Patrimonium, INNO.COM, REPTIELENLAND BLANKENBERGE, inno.com institute, Koninklijke Maatschappij voor Dierkunde van Antwerpen, 2B2C Projects, CIMART

since 2021 · until 2027

HERWIG LEIRS

Chairman of the board

Also active at: Koninklijke Maatschappij Voor Dierkunde Van Antwerpen Onroerend Patrimonium, REPTIELENLAND BLANKENBERGE, ANTI-PERSOONSMIJNEN ONTMIJNENDE PRODUCTONTWIKKELING, Koninklijke Maatschappij voor Dierkunde van Antwerpen, Associatie Universiteit & Hogescholen Antwerpen

since 2023 · until 2026

CHRISTA VAN GINNEKEN

Director

Also active at: Koninklijke Maatschappij Voor Dierkunde Van Antwerpen Onroerend Patrimonium, Koninklijke Maatschappij voor Dierkunde van Antwerpen

since 2023 · until 2029

CHRISTINE CLAUS

Director

Also active at: Koninklijke Maatschappij Voor Dierkunde Van Antwerpen Onroerend Patrimonium, Stichting Mevrouw Jules Dhondt-Dhaenens, REPTIELENLAND BLANKENBERGE, Koninklijke Maatschappij voor Dierkunde van Antwerpen, Stichting ANDRIES – VANLOUWE, BENCO, Palais des Beaux-Arts

since 2021 · until 2027

AUGUSTIJN PEETERS

Director

Also active at: Koninklijke Maatschappij Voor Dierkunde Van Antwerpen Onroerend Patrimonium, Heilig Hart Ziekenhuis, Kinderdagverblijf De Pallieterkes VZW, REPTIELENLAND BLANKENBERGE, Koninklijke Maatschappij voor Dierkunde van Antwerpen, Augustijn Peeters, PASTANATIE

since 2024 · until 2029

ANNE BARÉ

Director

Also active at: Koninklijke Maatschappij Voor Dierkunde Van Antwerpen Onroerend Patrimonium

since 2025 · until 2031

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Registered office

Koningin Astridplein 26

2018 Antwerpen

2.138.240.086

Leuvensesteenweg(MZN) 582

2812 Mechelen

Active since 18 November 1946

2.231.768.179

Mosselgoren 13

2440 Geel

Active since 1 January 2014

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Website

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Company number

0407.186.105

VAT number

BE 0407.186.105

Registered office

Koningin Astridplein 26, 2018 Antwerpen

Names & denominations

Royal Antwerp Zoo Foundation · Société royale de Zoologie d'Anvers · Koninklijke Maatschappij voor Dierkunde van Antwerpen

Enterprise type

Rechtspersoon

Legal form

Non-profit association

Legal situation

Normale toestand

Start date

18 November 1946

Peppol

Active · Active since 31 Dec 2025

Contact

zooantwerpen.be

Activities · NACE

Botanische tuinen, dierentuinen en natuurreservaten

Activiteiten van botanische tuinen en dierentuinen

Beheer en instandhouding van natuurreservaten

Botanische tuinen en dierentuinen

Beheer en instandhouding van natuurgebieden

Activiteiten van eetgelegenheden met beperkte bediening, muv mobiele eetgelegenheden

Eetgelegenheden met beperkte bediening

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