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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 16.8 to 10.8.
Financials
Financial year 2025
SEDCO from Gent, company number BE0415804455, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 132,898 after tax. For that financial year SEDCO recorded a gross margin of € 879,800 and equity of € 927,262. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 21,871 to € 132,898. 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 July 14, 2026.
€ 927,262
▲ 17% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 132,898
▲ € 111,028 vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 260,763
▼ 67% 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 € 340,262.
People and assets in 2025
10.8
▼ 2 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 657,552
▼ 22% vs 2024
€ 60,900 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.
€ 5,476
▼ 95% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 4.6 million
▲ 13% vs 2024
€ 229,842 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 20 years.
€ 599,313
▲ 43% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 311,554
▼ 23% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 1,560,613 | € 1,279,424 | € 1,091,854 | € 879,800 | ▼ 19% |
| Profit after taxes | € 452,200 | € 82,640 | € 21,871 | € 132,898 | ▲ € 111,028 |
| Equity | € 3,469,854 | € 3,372,493 | € 794,364 | € 927,262 | ▲ 17% |
| Total debts | € 2,566,995 | € 2,478,088 | € 5,465,429 | € 5,542,054 | ▲ 1% |
| Cash | € 525,925 | € 415,947 | € 791,011 | € 260,763 | ▼ 67% |
| Land & buildings | € 2,578,594 | € 2,544,559 | € 2,513,404 | € 2,481,062 | ▼ 1% |
| Retained profit | € 2,882,854 | € 2,785,493 | € 207,364 | € 340,262 | ▲ 64% |
| Dividend | € 200,000 | € 180,000 | € 2,600,000 | € 0 | ▼ 100% |
| Bank debt | € 1,650,321 | € 1,453,313 | € 4,087,957 | € 4,615,979 | ▲ 13% |
| Balance sheet total | € 6,296,234 | € 5,850,581 | € 6,259,793 | € 6,469,316 | ▲ 3% |
| Employees (FTE) | 16.8 | 16.8 | 12.8 | 10.8 | ▼ 2 |
Key figures of SEDCO, 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 SEDCO?
What happened at SEDCO in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- UNITED TILES BELGIUM BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Cedric Thimmesch stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 132,898 (▲ € 111,028 vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- UNITED TILES BELGIUM BV became a director. NBB
- Cedric Thimmesch became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Gent. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 452,200 profit in 2022 to € 132,898 profit in 2025.
Paid € 434,103 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 452,200 profit.
On average € 81,500 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of MARMOCER comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
SEDCOThe shares are held by MARMOCER (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Managing director · represented by Jacques Donners
Also active at: R.G. Rosseau G. Tegelfabriek, Tegelfabriek van Massenhoven, Daldecor, SCHELFHOUT, KERAMOS, KERALINE, CARRO WAVRE, KERAVISIE +6 more
since 2023 · until 2029
Cedric Thimmesch
Director
Also active at: R.G. Rosseau G. Tegelfabriek, CARRO INVEST WAREHOUSING, Tegelfabriek van Massenhoven, Daldecor, SCHELFHOUT, KERAMOS, ARGILE & KERAMIEK, KERALINE +10 more
since 2023 · until 2029
Shareholders
100%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Schouwingstraat 45
9032 Gent
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0415.804.455
- VAT number
- BE 0415.804.455
- Registered office
- Schouwingstraat 45, 9032 Gent
- Names & denominations
- SEDCO
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 13 February 1976
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 8 Jan 2026
- Activities · NACE
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