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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2024 and 2025.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Bakkerij François from Mechelen, company number BE0415457136, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -99,630 after tax. For that financial year Bakkerij François recorded a gross margin of € 880,440 and equity of € 127,989. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -177,924 to € -99,630. The company made a loss. 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 30, 2026.
€ 127,989
▼ 44% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -99,630
▲ 44 % less loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 11,391
▼ 58% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 109,397.
People and assets in 2025
9.5
▲ 1 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 340,325
▲ 4% vs 2024
€ 35,800 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.
€ 24,815
▼ 39% vs 2024
Of which on lease € 23,703.
Debts at end 2025
€ 412,319
▲ 243% vs 2024
€ 27,530 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 15 years.
€ 158,800
▲ 84% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 40,155
▼ 15% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 979,970 | € 714,411 | € 839,465 | € 880,440 | ▲ 5% |
| Profit after taxes | € 30,022 | € -12,362 | € -177,924 | € -99,630 | ▲ € 78,294 |
| Equity | € 417,905 | € 405,544 | € 227,619 | € 127,989 | ▼ 44% |
| Total debts | € 299,389 | € 339,016 | € 413,333 | € 650,645 | ▲ 57% |
| Cash | € 1,645 | € 13,096 | € 27,247 | € 11,391 | ▼ 58% |
| Retained profit | € 399,313 | € 386,952 | € 209,027 | € 109,397 | ▼ 48% |
| Bank debt | € 31,706 | € 101,590 | € 120,353 | € 412,319 | ▲ 243% |
| Balance sheet total | € 717,294 | € 744,560 | € 640,953 | € 778,634 | ▲ 21% |
| Employees (FTE) | 9.1 | 8.3 | 8.5 | 9.5 | ▲ 1 |
Key figures of Bakkerij François, 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 Bakkerij François?
What happened at Bakkerij François in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 99,630. Source: NBB ↗
- Luc Willekens became a director. NBB
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
- New establishment in Mechelen. KBO
In short
From € 30,022 profit in 2022 to € 99,630 loss in 2025.
Paid € 11,632 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 30,022 profit.
On average € 92,700 of value added per employee in 2025.
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De Lijn 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025
filed on 8 June 2026
What was left
€ 20 k ▼ 91%
Money in the bank
€ 178 k ▼ 98%
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NMBS 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left ▼ 80%
bpost 18 May 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left from loss to profit
Management
Behind Bakkerij François is Luc Willekens. Luc Willekens is also behind IMMOWIL.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
since 1994
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Liersesteenweg 276 box 101
2800 Mechelen
Liersesteenweg 276
2800 Mechelen
Active since 1 October 1975
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0415.457.136
- VAT number
- BE 0415.457.136
- Registered office
- Liersesteenweg 276 bus 101, 2800 Mechelen
- Names & denominations
- Bakkerij François
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 10 November 1975
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 18 Jun 2025
- Activities · NACE
Industriële vervaardiging van brood en van vers banketbakkerswerk
Industriële bakkerijen
Artisanale brood- en banketbakkerijen
Ambachtelijke vervaardiging van brood en van vers banketbakkerswerk