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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2024 and 2025.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 47.8 to 42.5.
Financials
Financial year 2025
DE CEUSTER from Sint-Katelijne-Waver, company number BE0413198422, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -289,661 after tax. For that financial year DE CEUSTER recorded a gross margin of € 3.9 million and equity of € 1.2 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -260,530 to € -289,661. The company made a loss. The company holds a healthy buffer. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on July 8, 2026.
€ 1.2 million
▼ 19% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -289,661
▼ 11 % more loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 147,898
▼ 57% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 918,680.
People and assets in 2025
42.5
▼ 4.8 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 3.5 million
▲ 1% vs 2024
€ 82,700 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.
€ 1.2 million
▼ 6% vs 2024
Of which on lease € 904,557.
Debts at end 2025
€ 3.2 million
▼ 14% vs 2024
€ 434,756 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 7 years.
€ 492,172
▼ 48% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 325,436
▼ 30% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Revenue | € 7,252,164 | € 8,952,152 | - | - | |
| Gross margin | - | - | € 4,296,702 | € 3,948,639 | ▼ 8% |
| Profit after taxes | € -207,823 | € -663,385 | € -260,530 | € -289,661 | ▼ € 29,132 |
| Equity | € 2,445,076 | € 1,781,691 | € 1,521,162 | € 1,231,500 | ▼ 19% |
| Total debts | € 3,517,005 | € 4,786,505 | € 5,146,382 | € 4,219,747 | ▼ 18% |
| Cash | € 389,515 | € 87,965 | € 347,823 | € 147,898 | ▼ 57% |
| Land & buildings | € 1,090,085 | € 1,077,500 | € 1,108,670 | € 1,019,904 | ▼ 8% |
| Retained profit | € 2,132,256 | € 1,468,871 | € 1,208,342 | € 918,680 | ▼ 24% |
| Bank debt | € 2,189,311 | € 3,542,116 | € 3,708,179 | € 3,176,032 | ▼ 14% |
| Balance sheet total | € 5,962,081 | € 6,568,197 | € 6,667,543 | € 5,451,248 | ▼ 18% |
| Employees (FTE) | 48.2 | 47.8 | 47.3 | 42.5 | ▼ 4.8 |
Key figures of DE CEUSTER, 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 DE CEUSTER?
What happened at DE CEUSTER in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Els De Ceuster stepped down as director. NBB
- Marie Brosens stepped down as director. NBB
- Decidee NV stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 289,661. Source: NBB ↗
- Marie Brosens became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Hoogstraten. KBO
- Els De Ceuster became a director. NBB
- Decidee NV became a director. NBB
In short
From € 207,823 loss in 2022 to € 289,661 loss in 2025.
Paid € 12,923 in corporate taxes since 2022.
On average € 92,900 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The shares are held by Els De Ceuster.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Els De Ceuster
Managing director
Is a shareholder
Also active at: DE CEUSTER MESTSTOFFEN, STEENBEEK, GROUP DE CEUSTER, DECIDEE, NUTRIBAM, VeVemac
since 2022 · until 2028
Marie Brosens
Director
since 2024 · until 2028
Director · represented by Herman De Ceuster
since 2022 · until 2028
Shareholders
Els De Ceuster · director
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Fortsesteenweg 30
2860 Sint-Katelijne-Waver
Voort 69 box A
2328 Hoogstraten
Active since 1 January 2023
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 2 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
- 0413.198.422
- VAT number
- BE 0413.198.422
- Registered office
- Fortsesteenweg 30, 2860 Sint-Katelijne-Waver
- Names & denominations
- DE CEUSTER
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 27 April 1973
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 14 Apr 2026
- Activities · NACE
Grondverzet
Bouwrijp maken van terreinen
Gemengd landbouwbedrijf
Gemengd bedrijf
Groothandel in akkerbouwproducten en veevoeders, algemeen assortiment
Landschapsverzorging
Groothandel in granen, zaden en diervoeders
Diensten in verband met de landbouw; aanleg en onderhoud van tuinen en parken