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Figures corrected NBB
Corrected annual account filed for 2025.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Ranson from Harelbeke, company number BE0415042808, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 280,185 after tax. For that financial year Ranson recorded revenue of € 218 million and equity of € 26.4 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 2.9 million to € 280,185. 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 September 29, 2026.
€ 26.4 million
▲ 1% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 280,185
▼ 90% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 2.1 million
▲ 236% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 70,044 paid out
25 % of the profit went to the shareholders, mostly to RANSON GROUP (100 % of the shares). That is where the money ends up.
People and assets in 2025
236.1
▲ 5.9 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 17.3 million
▲ 8% vs 2024
€ 73,200 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.
€ 453,751
▼ 24% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 34.6 million
▼ 4% vs 2024
€ 1.7 million is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 10 years.
€ 24.4 million
▲ 94% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 45 days on average.
€ 3.2 million
▲ 49% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 185,539,824 | € 199,347,811 | € 205,715,249 | € 217,998,120 | ▲ 6% |
| Profit after taxes | € -830,717 | € 53,843 | € 2,893,600 | € 280,185 | ▼ 90% |
| Equity | € 23,952,032 | € 23,990,531 | € 26,191,867 | € 26,402,008 | ▲ 1% |
| Total debts | € 67,342,846 | € 58,825,132 | € 57,802,022 | € 64,069,501 | ▲ 11% |
| Cash | € 338,624 | € 223,474 | € 628,356 | € 2,113,518 | ▲ 236% |
| Land & buildings | € 24,452,472 | € 23,207,155 | € 21,334,696 | € 19,806,407 | ▼ 7% |
| Retained profit | € 21,599,951 | € 21,638,450 | € 23,839,786 | € 24,049,927 | ▲ 1% |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 15,344 | € 692,264 | € 70,044 | ▼ 90% |
| Bank debt | € 43,754,823 | € 33,435,408 | € 36,220,461 | € 34,596,149 | ▼ 4% |
| Balance sheet total | € 91,294,878 | € 82,815,662 | € 83,993,889 | € 90,471,509 | ▲ 8% |
| Employees (FTE) | 223 | 227.5 | 230.2 | 236.1 | ▲ 5.9 |
Key figures of Ranson, 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 Ranson?
What happened at Ranson in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- RANSON GROUP BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Corrected annual accounts filed for financial year 2025. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- RANSON GROUP BV became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Wijnegem. KBO
- New establishment in Harelbeke. KBO
- New establishment in Bilzen-Hoeselt. KBO
- New establishment in Dilbeek. KBO
- New establishment in Harelbeke. KBO
In short
From € 830,717 loss in 2022 to € 280,185 profit in 2025.
Paid € 15,460 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 2.9 million profit.
Paid out € 777,652 in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
The stake of RANSON GROUP comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
RansonThe shares are held by RANSON GROUP (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Managing director · represented by Bruno RANSON
Also active at: Comptoir Sucrier, IMMORAN
since 2022 · until 2028
Shareholders
100%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Generaal Deprezstraat 4
8530 Harelbeke
Kortrijksesteenweg 322
8530 Harelbeke
Active since 1 June 1998
Spoorwegstraat 15 box J-K
1702 Dilbeek
Active since 31 March 2003
Industrielaan 24
3730 Bilzen-Hoeselt
Active since 1 January 2008
Tekenaarslaan(Kor) 62
8500 Kortrijk
Active since 1 June 1997
Venhof 4
2110 Wijnegem
Active since 1 January 2020
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 3 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0415.042.808
- VAT number
- BE 0415.042.808
- Registered office
- Generaal Deprezstraat 4, 8530 Harelbeke
- Names & denominations
- Ranson
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 24 February 1975
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 7 May 2025
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