Warning lights
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 24.6 to 18.5.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Soncotra from Poperinge, company number BE0407675063, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 1.8 million after tax. For that financial year Soncotra recorded revenue of € 40.9 million and equity of € 3.7 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 2 million to € 1.8 million. The company is profitable. The buffer is growing. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on June 25, 2026.
€ 3.7 million
▲ 12% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 1.8 million
▼ 9% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 584,777
▼ 41% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 1.3 million paid out
71 % of the profit went to the shareholders, mostly to ARTOCNOS HOLDING (100 % of the shares). That is where the money ends up.
People and assets in 2025
18.5
▼ 0.9 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.4 million
▼ 7% vs 2024
€ 74,800 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.
€ 4.5 million
▲ 36% vs 2024
Of which on lease € 4.4 million.
Debts at end 2025
€ 3.8 million
▲ 43% vs 2024
€ 1.2 million is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 3 years.
€ 6 million
▲ 3% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 57 days on average.
€ 378,448
▲ 31% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 53,373,760 | € 51,304,002 | € 41,626,723 | € 40,913,444 | ▼ 2% |
| Profit after taxes | € 4,510,246 | € 2,676,559 | € 2,004,310 | € 1,831,879 | ▼ 9% |
| Equity | € 6,627,369 | € 2,901,642 | € 3,312,047 | € 3,710,927 | ▲ 12% |
| Total debts | € 13,758,139 | € 17,412,128 | € 10,428,727 | € 11,653,154 | ▲ 12% |
| Cash | € 373,928 | € 1,660,973 | € 989,903 | € 584,777 | ▼ 41% |
| Land & buildings | € 42,966 | € 38,412 | € 33,858 | € 29,304 | ▼ 13% |
| Retained profit | € 6,090,214 | € 2,364,606 | € 2,775,130 | € 3,174,010 | ▲ 14% |
| Dividend | € 250,000 | € 6,202,167 | € 1,455,000 | € 1,300,000 | ▼ 11% |
| Bank debt | € 3,666,607 | € 5,473,934 | € 2,641,203 | € 3,772,520 | ▲ 43% |
| Balance sheet total | € 20,406,602 | € 20,328,385 | € 13,740,774 | € 15,364,081 | ▲ 12% |
| Employees (FTE) | 23.5 | 24.6 | 19.4 | 18.5 | ▼ 0.9 |
Key figures of Soncotra, 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 Soncotra?
What happened at Soncotra in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Lamis BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Del Management Assistance BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Artocnos Holding NV stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 1.8 million (▼ 9% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Artocnos Holding NV became a director. NBB
- Del Management Assistance BV became a director. NBB
- Lamis BV became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Poperinge. KBO
In short
From € 4.5 million profit in 2022 to € 1.8 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 3.6 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 4.5 million profit.
Paid out € 9.2 million in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
The stake of ARTOCNOS HOLDING, LAMIS comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
SoncotraThe shares are held by ARTOCNOS HOLDING (100%) and LAMIS (50%). It owns 96% of Trucksat Ltd (in vereffening) and 85.3% of Libertas LLP itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Chairman of the board · represented by Dominique Delbeke
Also active at: ARTOCNOS HOLDING
since 2021 · until 2027
Managing director · represented by Bert Lamaire
since 2023 · until 2027
since 2021 · until 2027
Shareholders
100%
50%
Participations
Trucksat Ltd (in vereffening)
96%
85.3%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Frankrijklaan 29
8970 Poperinge
Frankrijklaan 31
8970 Poperinge
Active since 1 January 1971
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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Security
Details
- Company number
- 0407.675.063
- VAT number
- BE 0407.675.063
- Registered office
- Frankrijklaan 29, 8970 Poperinge
- Names & denominations
- Soncotra
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 30 November 1970
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 6 Jan 2026
- Contact
- soncotra.be
- Activities · NACE
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