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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 49 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Bidfood from Thuin, company number BE0415586897, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 9.2 million after tax. For that financial year Bidfood recorded revenue of € 355.3 million and equity of € 11.8 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 6.6 million to € 9.2 million. Profitable, and profit is growing. The buffer is growing. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on December 26, 2025.
€ 11.8 million
▲ 22% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 9.2 million
▲ 41% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 8.8 million
▲ 118% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 7 million paid out
76 % of the profit went to the shareholders, mostly to Bidfood Belgium (100 % of the shares). That is where the money ends up.
People and assets in 2025
342.5
▲ 9.3 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 25.2 million
▲ 8% vs 2024
€ 73,500 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.
€ 1.8 million
▼ 11% vs 2024
Of which on lease € 155,486.
Debts at end 2025
€ 168,750
▼ 61% vs 2024
€ 126,429 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 1 years.
€ 77.8 million
▲ 4% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 84 days on average.
€ 9 million
▲ 27% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 291,750,485 | € 349,102,585 | € 336,723,262 | € 355,327,840 | ▲ 6% |
| Profit after taxes | € 1,321,095 | € 5,946,905 | € 6,550,614 | € 9,232,280 | ▲ 41% |
| Equity | € 7,790,866 | € 9,679,974 | € 9,672,791 | € 11,847,275 | ▲ 22% |
| Total debts | € 101,014,386 | € 93,796,819 | € 92,551,421 | € 99,148,112 | ▲ 7% |
| Cash | € 19,839,838 | € 2,772,900 | € 4,063,915 | € 8,846,770 | ▲ 118% |
| Land & buildings | € 9,540,201 | € 9,113,085 | € 8,665,231 | € 8,153,816 | ▼ 6% |
| Retained profit | € 5,084,672 | € 7,031,576 | € 7,082,190 | € 9,314,471 | ▲ 32% |
| Dividend | € 3,050,000 | € 4,000,000 | € 6,500,000 | € 7,000,000 | ▲ 8% |
| Bank debt | € 1,912,227 | € 691,425 | € 431,245 | € 168,750 | ▼ 61% |
| Balance sheet total | € 111,022,671 | € 103,797,894 | € 102,526,048 | € 111,277,957 | ▲ 9% |
| Employees (FTE) | 340.6 | 348.2 | 333.2 | 342.5 | ▲ 9.3 |
Key figures of Bidfood, 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 Bidfood?
What happened at Bidfood in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- C.C.S.V. Management stepped down as director. NBB
- Thierry Legat stepped down as director. NBB
- Stephen Bender stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 9.2 million (▲ 41% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- C.C.S.V. Management became a director. NBB
- Laurent Lioulas stepped down as director. NBB
- Laurent Lioulas became a director. NBB
- Thierry Legat became a director. NBB
In short
From € 1.3 million profit in 2022 to € 9.2 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 3.4 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 9.2 million profit.
Paid out € 20.6 million in dividends to the owners in total.
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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
The stake of Bidfood Belgium comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
BidfoodThe shares are held by Bidfood Belgium (100%). It owns 100% of Bidfood De Clercq, 99.9% of Bidfood Flanders and 0.1% of Bidfood Makady itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Laurent Lioulas
Director
Also active at: V.D.S.-FOOD, BIDFOOD DE CLERCQ, BIDFOOD MAKADY, Bidfood Horeca Service, Bidfood Belgium, FOOD TRANS, IVOMATEC, FICOTAX +2 more
since 2022 · until 2025
Director
Also active at: DECUYP, V.D.S.-FOOD, FOSTER FAST FOOD, BIDFOOD DE CLERCQ, BIDFOOD MAKADY, Bidfood Horeca Service, Bidfood Belgium, FOOD TRANS +3 more
since 2025 · until 2028
Thierry Legat
Managing director
Also active at: V.D.S.-FOOD, BIDFOOD MAKADY, Bidfood Belgium, FOOD TRANS, IVOMATEC, VDS-FOOD BXL, BIDFOOD FLANDERS
since 2022 · until 2028
Stephen Bender
Director
Also active at: V.D.S.-FOOD, Bidfood Belgium, VDS-FOOD BXL, BIDFOOD FLANDERS
since 2022 · until 2028
Shareholders
100%
Participations
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Avenue DELI XL 1
6530 Thuin
Kasteleinsstraat 17
9150 Beveren-Kruibeke-Zwijndrecht
Active since 1 January 2015
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 1 companies are registered at this address.
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Website
Technologies
Hosting & Email
Email provider
Microsoft 365
Hosting
OVH, FR
Website info
Features
Security
Details
- Company number
- 0415.586.897
- VAT number
- BE 0415.586.897
- Registered office
- Avenue DELI XL 1, 6530 Thuin
- Names & denominations
- Bidfood
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 16 December 1975
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 1 Jan 2001
- Contact
- bidfood.be [email protected] 071256811
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