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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 58 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Figures corrected NBB
Corrected annual account filed for 2022.
Financials
Financial year 2025
JOHN CRANE BELGIUM from Antwerpen, company number BE0414348564, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 712,623 after tax. For that financial year JOHN CRANE BELGIUM recorded a gross margin of € 1.7 million and equity of € 3.5 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 810,575 to € 712,623. 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 February 27, 2026.
€ 3.5 million
▲ 26% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 712,623
▼ 12% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 178,558
▼ 56% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Stays in the company
No dividend for 2025. Retained profit grew to € 3.4 million.
People and assets in 2025
7.8
▼ 0.5 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 842,143
▼ 14% vs 2024
€ 108,000 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.
€ 37,120
▼ 33% 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.
€ 576,426
▲ 3% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 575,293
▼ 16% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 1,391,848 | € 1,541,028 | € 2,086,769 | € 1,734,663 | ▼ 17% |
| Profit after taxes | € 575,904 | € 423,926 | € 810,575 | € 712,623 | ▼ 12% |
| Equity | € 1,555,993 | € 1,979,919 | € 2,790,494 | € 3,503,117 | ▲ 26% |
| Total debts | € 1,816,342 | € 2,686,558 | € 2,345,487 | € 2,208,003 | ▼ 6% |
| Cash | € 440,564 | € 712,331 | € 410,281 | € 178,558 | ▼ 56% |
| Retained profit | € 1,484,325 | € 1,908,251 | € 2,718,827 | € 3,431,449 | ▲ 26% |
| Balance sheet total | € 3,372,335 | € 4,666,477 | € 5,135,981 | € 5,711,120 | ▲ 11% |
| Employees (FTE) | 7.1 | 8.1 | 8.3 | 7.8 | ▼ 0.5 |
By gross margin, JOHN CRANE BELGIUM ranks 2nd of 11 companies with main activity “Groothandel in andere machines en werktuigen, neg” in Antwerpen that publish figures (fiscal year 2025).
Key figures of JOHN CRANE BELGIUM, fiscal years 2022 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2026) expected before 3 March 2027.
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What happened to JOHN CRANE BELGIUM?
What happened at JOHN CRANE BELGIUM in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Cornelis Kroon Marinus stepped down as director. NBB
- Katerina Holford Evans stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 712,623 (▼ 12% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Katerina Holford Evans became a director. NBB
- Sharman Robert John stepped down as director. NBB
- Cornelis Kroon Marinus became a director. NBB
- Nys Benjamin stepped down as director. NBB
- Nys Benjamin became a director. NBB
In short
From € 575,904 profit in 2022 to € 712,623 profit in 2025.
Paid € 1 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 810,575 profit.
On average € 222,400 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Sharman Robert John
Director
since 2022 · until 2025
Nys Benjamin
Director
since 2024 · until 2024
Cornelis Kroon Marinus
Director
since 2025 · until 2030
Katerina Holford Evans
Director
since 2025 · until 2030
Josephus Maria Beelen Joannes
Director
since 2018 · until 2024
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Glasstraat 37
2170 Antwerpen
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
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Details
- Company number
- 0414.348.564
- VAT number
- BE 0414.348.564
- Registered office
- Glasstraat 37, 2170 Antwerpen
- Names & denominations
- JOHN CRANE BELGIUM
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 12 November 1974
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