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 16.1 to 3.5.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Albert BRILLE from Wevelgem, company number BE0413227819, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 7.5 million after tax. For that financial year Albert BRILLE recorded revenue of € 50.7 million and equity of € 34.5 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 21 million to € 7.5 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 April 8, 2026.
€ 34.5 million
▲ 4% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 7.5 million
▼ 64% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 13.8 million
▲ 7% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 6 million paid out
81 % of the profit went to the shareholders, mostly to LINO FIBERS (67 % of the shares). That is where the money ends up.
People and assets in 2025
3.5
▼ 9.6 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 484,965
▼ 71% vs 2024
€ 138,600 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.
€ 1 million
▲ 65% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
None
No bank loans on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 24.9 million
▲ 66% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 215 days on average.
€ 146,102
▼ 85% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2021 | 2022 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 24,661,806 | € 39,267,038 | € 103,783,154 | € 50,709,412 | ▼ 51% |
| Profit after taxes | € 3,321,988 | € 5,586,358 | € 20,952,137 | € 7,450,965 | ▼ 64% |
| Equity | € 17,484,011 | € 20,067,369 | € 33,018,506 | € 34,469,471 | ▲ 4% |
| Total debts | € 9,430,607 | € 15,872,261 | € 25,495,376 | € 32,600,932 | ▲ 28% |
| Cash | € 8,067,747 | € 12,734,531 | € 12,832,354 | € 13,778,534 | ▲ 7% |
| Land & buildings | € 150,477 | € 149,863 | € 153,007 | € 151,919 | ▼ 1% |
| Retained profit | € 17,421,011 | € 20,004,369 | € 32,955,506 | € 34,406,471 | ▲ 4% |
| Dividend | € 898,800 | € 3,003,000 | € 8,001,000 | € 6,000,000 | ▼ 25% |
| Balance sheet total | € 26,914,617 | € 35,939,630 | € 58,513,882 | € 67,070,403 | ▲ 15% |
| Employees (FTE) | 15.7 | 16.1 | 13.1 | 3.5 | ▼ 9.6 |
Key figures of Albert BRILLE, fiscal years 2021 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2026) expected before 30 April 2027.
What happened to Albert BRILLE?
What happened at Albert BRILLE in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- HAVEMA BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Christian Brille stepped down as director. NBB
- Jean-Paul Brille stepped down as director. NBB
- Angelina Brille stepped down as director. NBB
- Veronique Verstraete stepped down as director. NBB
- Françoise Van Rijkel stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 7.5 million (▼ 64% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- HAVEMA BV became a director. NBB
In short
From € 3.3 million profit in 2021 to € 7.5 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 12.8 million in corporate taxes since 2021.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 21 million profit.
Paid out € 17.9 million in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
The stake of LINO FIBERS, VEREVI, LEIEGOED comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
Albert BRILLEThe shares are held by LINO FIBERS (66.7%), VEREVI (18.6%) and LEIEGOED (14.8%). It owns 60.2% of Teillage Brille Lamerant itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Marnix Hanson
since 2023 · until 2029
since 2023 · until 2029
since 2023 · until 2029
Angelina Brille
Director
Also active at: Transport Albert Brille, VERSTRAETE CHRISTINE APOTHEEK, VERVEC, Brille Wevelgem Immo
since 2023 · until 2029
Veronique Verstraete
Director
Also active at: Transport Albert Brille, VERSTRAETE CHRISTINE APOTHEEK, VERVEC, Brille Wevelgem Immo, VEREVI
since 2023 · until 2029
since 2023 · until 2029
Shareholders
Participations
Teillage Brille Lamerant
60.2%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Moorselestraat 183
8560 Wevelgem
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 2 companies are registered at this address.
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Website
Technologies
Hosting & Email
Email provider
Microsoft 365
Hosting
DSTNY-BACKBONE International Backbone, BE
Website info
Features
Security
Network
Details
- Company number
- 0413.227.819
- VAT number
- BE 0413.227.819
- Registered office
- Moorselestraat 183, 8560 Wevelgem
- Names & denominations
- Albert BRILLE
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 18 May 1973
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 21 Oct 2026
- Contact
- albertbrille.be
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