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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 42.3 to 38.
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Figures corrected NBB
Corrected annual account filed for 2023.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Werkhuizen Deswarte from Roeselare, company number BE0407706638, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 609,144 after tax. For that financial year Werkhuizen Deswarte recorded revenue of € 14.7 million and equity of € 2.8 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 1.7 million to € 609,144. 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 July 17, 2026.
€ 2.8 million
▲ 25% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 609,144
▼ 65% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 1.8 million
▲ 90% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 50,000 paid out
8 % of the profit went to the shareholders, mostly to KOFA (100 % of the shares). That is where the money ends up.
People and assets in 2025
38
▼ 2.6 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 3.3 million
▼ 1% vs 2024
€ 85,600 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.
€ 118,278
▼ 29% vs 2024
Of which on lease € 13,380.
Debts at end 2025
€ 65,441
▼ 89% vs 2024
€ 25,285 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 3 years.
€ 1.8 million
▼ 28% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 56 days on average.
€ 527,765
▼ 19% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Revenue | - | € 18,558,860 | € 17,059,337 | € 14,719,223 | ▼ 14% |
| Gross margin | € 3,638,261 | - | - | - | |
| Profit after taxes | € 401,132 | € 580,402 | € 1,721,348 | € 609,144 | ▼ 65% |
| Equity | € 1,361,390 | € 1,910,834 | € 2,230,306 | € 2,788,492 | ▲ 25% |
| Total debts | € 7,661,880 | € 7,165,108 | € 6,175,974 | € 3,255,973 | ▼ 47% |
| Cash | € 1,300,860 | € 208,980 | € 952,511 | € 1,814,110 | ▲ 90% |
| Land & buildings | € 558,005 | € 522,427 | € 10,406 | € 8,907 | ▼ 14% |
| Retained profit | € 1,295,930 | € 1,846,332 | € 2,166,763 | € 2,725,907 | ▲ 26% |
| Dividend | € 50,000 | € 30,000 | € 1,400,917 | € 50,000 | ▼ 96% |
| Bank debt | € 1,742,590 | € 1,543,123 | € 610,394 | € 65,441 | ▼ 89% |
| Balance sheet total | € 9,024,569 | € 9,076,591 | € 8,506,280 | € 6,044,465 | ▼ 29% |
| Employees (FTE) | 41.2 | 42.3 | 40.6 | 38 | ▼ 2.6 |
Key figures of Werkhuizen Deswarte, 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 Werkhuizen Deswarte?
What happened at Werkhuizen Deswarte in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- IUVENTUM BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Sell BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Kofa BV stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 609,144 (▼ 65% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- IUVENTUM BV became a director. NBB
- Sell BV became a director. NBB
- Kofa BV became a director. NBB
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 401,132 profit in 2022 to € 609,144 profit in 2025.
Paid € 1.2 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 1.7 million profit.
On average € 88,300 of value added per employee in 2022.
Management
The stake of KOFA comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
Werkhuizen DeswarteThe shares are held by KOFA (99.9%). It owns 23.3% of Montagebedrijf Deswarte itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Eyckmans STIJN
Also active at: MONTAGEBEDRIJF DESWARTE, ECLIPSE, BeverBrugge, HEXAGON, Hexagon Invest, HEXAPORT, HEXAPOWER, HXGN +3 more
since 2022 · until 2028
Director · represented by Dejonghe FREDERIK
since 2025 · until 2031
Managing director · represented by Dejonghe KOEN
Also active at: MONTAGEBEDRIJF DESWARTE, MAEYAERT, ALCO, ZIPKO
since 2022 · until 2028
Shareholders
99.9%
Participations
23.3%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Jakenshof 1A
8800 Roeselare
Jakenshof 1 A
8800 Roeselare
Active since 1 December 1970
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 4 companies are registered at this address.
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- Company number
- 0407.706.638
- VAT number
- BE 0407.706.638
- Registered office
- Jakenshof 1A, 8800 Roeselare
- Names & denominations
- Werkhuizen Deswarte
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 16 December 1970
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 17 Dec 2025
- Contact
- deswarte.be
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