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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 35 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
BRIDER from Geel, company number BE0413764485, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 54,376 after tax. For that financial year BRIDER recorded a gross margin of € 179,074 and equity of € 73,595. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 38,169 to € 54,376. Profitable, and profit is growing. 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 31, 2026.
€ 73,595
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 54,376
▲ 42% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 6,217
▲ 9% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 54,376 paid out
100 % of the profit went to the shareholders, mostly to Dauwen Van der Staey Farma (100 % of the shares). That is where the money ends up.
People and assets in 2025
1.1
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 92,881
▲ 7% vs 2024
€ 84,400 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.
€ 6,404
▲ 97% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 168,597
▼ 6% vs 2024
€ 10,467 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 16 years.
€ 50,167
▼ 11% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 13,936
▲ 45% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 127,204 | € 134,729 | € 152,137 | € 179,074 | ▲ 18% |
| Profit after taxes | € 37,754 | € 51,066 | € 38,169 | € 54,376 | ▲ 42% |
| Equity | € 73,529 | € 73,595 | € 73,595 | € 73,595 | |
| Total debts | € 352,700 | € 361,189 | € 370,528 | € 398,530 | ▲ 8% |
| Cash | € 16,272 | € 623 | € 5,729 | € 6,217 | ▲ 9% |
| Land & buildings | € 202,446 | € 195,287 | € 185,689 | € 176,091 | ▼ 5% |
| Retained profit | € 54,937 | € 55,003 | € 55,003 | € 55,003 | |
| Dividend | € 21,000 | € 51,000 | € 38,169 | € 54,376 | ▲ 42% |
| Bank debt | € 206,413 | € 189,020 | € 178,896 | € 168,597 | ▼ 6% |
| Balance sheet total | € 426,229 | € 434,784 | € 444,123 | € 472,125 | ▲ 6% |
| Employees (FTE) | 1.1 | 1 | 1.1 | 1.1 |
Key figures of BRIDER, 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 BRIDER?
What happened at BRIDER in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 54,376 (▲ 42% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Dauwen Van der Staey Farma became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Geel. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 37,754 profit in 2022 to € 54,376 profit in 2025.
Paid € 22,561 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 54,376 profit.
On average € 162,800 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of Dauwen Van der Staey Farma comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
BRIDERBehind BRIDER is Dauwen Van der Staey Farma. The shares are held by Dauwen Van der Staey Farma (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Sofie Van Der Staey
since 2020
Shareholders
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Pas 26
2440 Geel
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0413.764.485
- VAT number
- BE 0413.764.485
- Registered office
- Pas 26, 2440 Geel
- Names & denominations
- BRIDER
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 22 December 1973
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 21 Oct 2025
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