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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 7.2 to 6.4.
Financials
Financial year 2025
College Cardinal Mercier from Braine-l'Alleud, company number BE0410260708, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 535,424 after tax. For that financial year College Cardinal Mercier recorded revenue of € 35,346 and equity of € 8.8 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 472,873 to € 535,424. Profitable, and profit is growing. 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 June 5, 2026.
€ 8.8 million
▲ 5% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 535,424
▲ 13% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 1.3 million
▼ 10% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
People and assets in 2025
6.4
▼ 0.5 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 20.5 million
▲ 3% vs 2024
€ 3.2 million 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.
€ 198,315
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 5.8 million
▼ 6% vs 2024
€ 383,433 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 15 years.
€ 532,118
▲ 115% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 47 days on average.
€ 62,545
▲ 8% vs 2024
Wages, holiday pay and social contributions still to pay. No outstanding taxes.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 42,838 | € 51,857 | € 52,700 | € 35,346 | ▼ 33% |
| Profit after taxes | € 323,756 | € 318,878 | € 472,873 | € 535,424 | ▲ 13% |
| Equity | € 5,746,379 | € 7,438,977 | € 8,427,790 | € 8,837,380 | ▲ 5% |
| Total debts | € 7,411,079 | € 7,864,693 | € 6,963,025 | € 6,961,148 | |
| Cash | € 1,873,516 | € 1,475,225 | € 1,418,972 | € 1,276,191 | ▼ 10% |
| Land & buildings | € 5,641,191 | € 5,876,542 | € 12,376,908 | € 11,928,554 | ▼ 4% |
| Retained profit | € 4,251,474 | € 4,570,352 | € 5,043,225 | € 5,578,649 | ▲ 11% |
| Bank debt | € 6,329,577 | € 6,567,796 | € 6,196,090 | € 5,818,655 | ▼ 6% |
| Balance sheet total | € 13,197,458 | € 15,343,670 | € 15,430,815 | € 15,838,528 | ▲ 3% |
| Employees (FTE) | 7.5 | 7.2 | 6.9 | 6.4 | ▼ 0.5 |
Key figures of College Cardinal Mercier, 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 College Cardinal Mercier?
What happened at College Cardinal Mercier in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 535,424 (▲ 13% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Benoit MARTIN became a director. NBB
- Aude-isabelle DE SMET became a director. NBB
- Jonathan DEWANDRE became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Lasne. KBO
- Bruno HENDRICKX became a director. NBB
- Yannick VERNAEVE-SCHOEN became a director. NBB
- Marc EMBISE became a director. NBB
In short
From € 323,756 profit in 2022 to € 535,424 profit in 2025.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 535,424 profit.
Pays suppliers within 47 days on average.
Management
Behind College Cardinal Mercier are Aude-isabelle DE SMET, Bruno HENDRICKX , Benoit MARTIN, Benoit BOSMANS, Luc GORLIER and Jonathan DEWANDRE.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Aude-isabelle DE SMET
Director
since 2023
Bruno HENDRICKX
Managing director
since 2021
Benoit MARTIN
Managing director, Secrétaire
since 2025
Benoit BOSMANS
Director
since 2013
since 2013
since 2023
Yannick VERNAEVE-SCHOEN
Director
since 2018
Jean-Pierre MIGEAL
Director
since 2011
Michel LAMBERT
Président du Conseil d'Administration
since 2012
Grégory DE SMET
Managing director
since 2016
Marc EMBISE
Managing director
since 2017
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Ch de Mont St Jean 83
1420 Braine-l'Alleud
Chemin des Roussettes 10
1410 Waterloo
Active since 1 January 2007
Ch de Mont St Jean 83 box A
1420 Braine-l'Alleud
Active since 4 February 2008
Ch de Mont St Jean 83 box B
1420 Braine-l'Alleud
Active since 1 September 2008
Chaussée de Louvain 565
1380 Lasne
Active since 29 August 2022
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 5 companies are registered at this address.
All companies at this address →What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0410.260.708
- VAT number
- BE 0410.260.708
- Registered office
- Ch de Mont St Jean 83, 1420 Braine-l'Alleud
- Names & denominations
- c.c.m. · College Cardinal Mercier
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Non-profit association
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 17 June 1963
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 1 Jan 2001
- Activities · NACE
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