Financials
Financial year 2025
Verschaeren & Mertens from Mechelen, company number BE0416727836, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 567,900 after tax. For that financial year Verschaeren & Mertens recorded a gross margin of € 4.6 million and equity of € 2.7 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 243,742 to € 567,900. Profitable, and profit is growing. The buffer is growing. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on July 3, 2026.
€ 2.7 million
▲ 125% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 567,900
▲ 133% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 184,158
▼ 66% 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 € 2.7 million.
People and assets in 2025
46.6
▲ 11.8 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 3.6 million
▲ 22% vs 2024
€ 76,800 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.
€ 44,518
▼ 14% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
None
No bank loans on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 780,293
▲ € 695,427 vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 812,475
▲ 39% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 2,304,278 | € 2,688,149 | € 3,474,063 | € 4,619,100 | ▲ 33% |
| Profit after taxes | € 831,598 | € 474,723 | € 243,742 | € 567,900 | ▲ 133% |
| Equity | € 931,993 | € 956,716 | € 1,200,458 | € 2,697,608 | ▲ 125% |
| Total debts | € 1,088,744 | € 1,646,098 | € 833,751 | € 1,691,993 | ▲ 103% |
| Cash | € 746,050 | € 1,037,693 | € 536,299 | € 184,158 | ▼ 66% |
| Retained profit | € 869,993 | € 950,519 | € 1,194,260 | € 2,691,410 | ▲ 125% |
| Dividend | € 700,000 | € 450,000 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Bank debt | € 133,177 | € 279,000 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Balance sheet total | € 2,020,738 | € 2,602,815 | € 2,034,209 | € 4,389,601 | ▲ 116% |
| Employees (FTE) | 14.6 | 21.9 | 34.8 | 46.6 | ▲ 11.8 |
Key figures of Verschaeren & Mertens, 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 Verschaeren & Mertens?
What happened at Verschaeren & Mertens in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 567,900 (▲ 133% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- PIAGroup Belgium NV became a director. NBB
- Kathleen Scheers became a director. NBB
- Tom Liekens became a director. NBB
- Rob Verschaeren became a director. NBB
- Tom Rumes became a director. NBB
- Koen Laenen became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Mechelen. KBO
In short
From € 831,598 profit in 2022 to € 567,900 profit in 2025.
Paid € 765,741 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 831,598 profit.
On average € 99,100 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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Management
The stake of Katrol comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
Verschaeren & MertensBehind Verschaeren & Mertens are Koen Laenen, Kathleen Scheers, Tom Liekens, PIAGroup Belgium NV, Tom Rumes and Rob Verschaeren. The shares are held by Katrol (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
since 2004
since 2023
since 2023
Director · represented by Steven Brouckaert
Owns 100% via Katrol
Also active at: HLB LEGAL SERVICES, ACKMO ACCOUNTANTS & TAX ADVISERS, thg Bruxelles, SANDERS ACCOUNTING & CONSULTING, HLB BELGIUM, PME ASSISTANCE, VAN LOOY ACCOUNTANTS, AccountingTeam +67 more
since 2024
since 2018
since 2023
Shareholders
Katrol · holding of PIAGroup Belgium NV
100%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Battelsesteenweg 286
2800 Mechelen
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Details
- Company number
- 0416.727.836
- VAT number
- BE 0416.727.836
- Registered office
- Battelsesteenweg 286, 2800 Mechelen
- Names & denominations
- Verschaeren & Mertens · V&M
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 30 December 1976
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 10 Jun 2026
- Activities · NACE
Activiteiten van (gecertificeerde) (fiscaal) accountants
Accountants
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