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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 6.7 to 5.6.
Financials
Financial year 2025
DEMSTER from Lichtervelde, company number BE0414615018, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 5,021 after tax. For that financial year DEMSTER recorded a gross margin of € 274,436 and equity of € 471,659. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 75,892 to € 5,021. The company is profitable. The buffer is growing. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on December 17, 2025.
€ 471,659
▲ 1% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 5,021
▼ 93% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 165,516
▲ 9% 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 € 410,159.
People and assets in 2025
5.6
▼ 0.4 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 207,922
▼ 1% vs 2024
€ 37,100 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.
€ 64,245
▲ € 56,619 vs 2024
Of which on lease € 61,335.
Debts at end 2025
€ 393,956
▼ 3% vs 2024
€ 61,766 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 4 years.
€ 73,252
▲ 59% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 173,264
▲ € 149,061 vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 515,260 | € 405,838 | € 379,529 | € 274,436 | ▼ 28% |
| Profit after taxes | € 154,821 | € 101,568 | € 75,892 | € 5,021 | ▼ 93% |
| Equity | € 346,117 | € 390,746 | € 466,638 | € 471,659 | ▲ 1% |
| Total debts | € 932,010 | € 907,819 | € 759,100 | € 919,811 | ▲ 21% |
| Cash | € 76,777 | € 217,299 | € 151,163 | € 165,516 | ▲ 9% |
| Land & buildings | € 149,139 | € 136,455 | € 129,204 | € 150,981 | ▲ 17% |
| Retained profit | € 284,617 | € 329,246 | € 405,138 | € 410,159 | ▲ 1% |
| Dividend | € 85,940 | € 56,938 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Bank debt | € 530,639 | € 473,339 | € 407,058 | € 393,956 | ▼ 3% |
| Balance sheet total | € 1,278,127 | € 1,298,565 | € 1,225,738 | € 1,391,470 | ▲ 14% |
| Employees (FTE) | 8.5 | 6.7 | 6 | 5.6 | ▼ 0.4 |
Key figures of DEMSTER, fiscal years 2022 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2026) expected before 30 January 2027.
What happened to DEMSTER?
What happened at DEMSTER in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 5,021 (▼ 93% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Lichtervelde. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 154,821 profit in 2022 to € 5,021 profit in 2025.
Paid € 55,389 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 154,821 profit.
On average € 49,000 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of DEMSTER BEHEER comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
DEMSTERBehind DEMSTER is DemDelVan BV. The shares are held by DemDelVan (100%) and DEMSTER BEHEER (99.2%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Shareholders
100%
99.2%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Industrielaan 32
8810 Lichtervelde
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.
Website
Technologies
Hosting & Email
Email provider
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Website info
Features
Security
Network
Details
- Company number
- 0414.615.018
- VAT number
- BE 0414.615.018
- Registered office
- Industrielaan 32, 8810 Lichtervelde
- Names & denominations
- DEMSTER
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 21 November 1974
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 17 Mar 2025
- Contact
- demster.be [email protected]
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