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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 35 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
FASHION FORUM from Denderleeuw, company number BE0416385762, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 221,739 after tax. For that financial year FASHION FORUM recorded a gross margin of € 946,103 and equity of € 427,100. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 204,780 to € 221,739. Profitable, and profit is growing. The buffer is growing. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on July 20, 2026.
€ 427,100
▲ 5% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 221,739
▲ 8% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 15,374
▼ 55% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 200,000 paid out
90 % of the profit went to the shareholders, mostly to DNDB (50 % of the shares). That is where the money ends up.
People and assets in 2025
14.1
▲ 0.6 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 650,290
▼ 3% vs 2024
€ 46,100 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.
€ 4,500
▼ 71% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 583,683
▲ 9% vs 2024
€ 116,978 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 4 years.
€ 82,848
▲ 38% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 137,807
▼ 7% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 888,140 | € 944,308 | € 1,027,936 | € 946,103 | ▼ 8% |
| Profit after taxes | € 202,442 | € 203,919 | € 204,780 | € 221,739 | ▲ 8% |
| Equity | € 396,663 | € 400,582 | € 405,362 | € 427,100 | ▲ 5% |
| Total debts | € 928,566 | € 971,759 | € 740,741 | € 804,339 | ▲ 9% |
| Cash | € 12,716 | € 39,156 | € 34,526 | € 15,374 | ▼ 55% |
| Land & buildings | € 178,653 | € 120,462 | € 56,294 | € 251,454 | ▲ € 195,160 |
| Retained profit | € 236,663 | € 240,582 | € 245,362 | € 267,100 | ▲ 9% |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 200,000 | € 200,000 | € 200,000 | |
| Bank debt | € 705,919 | € 801,544 | € 533,339 | € 583,683 | ▲ 9% |
| Balance sheet total | € 1,325,228 | € 1,372,341 | € 1,146,103 | € 1,231,439 | ▲ 7% |
| Employees (FTE) | 13.7 | 14.5 | 13.5 | 14.1 | ▲ 0.6 |
Key figures of FASHION FORUM, 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 FASHION FORUM?
What happened at FASHION FORUM in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Dirk De Backer stepped down as director. NBB
- DNDB stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 221,739 (▲ 8% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Dirk De Backer became a director. NBB
- DNDB became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Denderleeuw. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 202,442 profit in 2022 to € 221,739 profit in 2025.
Paid € 142,609 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 221,739 profit.
On average € 67,100 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%
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Management
The stake of DNDB comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
FASHION FORUMThe shares are held by DNDB (50%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Dirk De Backer
Director
since 2023 · until 2029
since 2022 · until 2029
Shareholders
50%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Steenweg 403 box A
9470 Denderleeuw
Steenweg 45
9470 Denderleeuw
Active since 19 August 1976
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Details
- Company number
- 0416.385.762
- VAT number
- BE 0416.385.762
- Registered office
- Steenweg 403 bus A, 9470 Denderleeuw
- Names & denominations
- FASHION FORUM
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 19 August 1976
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 30 Dec 2025
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