What does De Biest do?

De Biest is a wholesaler in Kruisem. Public Limited, started on 12 May 1977, 5 establishments.

What is the address of De Biest?

The registered office of De Biest is located at Waregemsesteenweg(KRU) 186, 9770 Kruisem.

Is De Biest still active?

Yes. According to the CBE (29 October 2026) De Biest is active, legal situation “Normale toestand”, started on 12 May 1977.

Is De Biest registered on Peppol?

Yes, De Biest is registered on the Peppol network with ID 0208:0417143748.

What is the enterprise number of De Biest?

The enterprise number of De Biest is BE0417143748.

When was De Biest founded?

De Biest was founded on 12 May 1977.

Who are the directors of De Biest?

According to the 2025 annual accounts, the directors of De Biest are: ORION PR NV, Roseline Ragolle.

Is De Biest a reliable company?

Databakkes does not pass judgement; this is what the sources say: Active according to the CBE since 12 May 1977; 5 annual accounts filed, latest fiscal year 2025; 2 directors known from the annual account; 5 establishments in the CBE.

How much profit did De Biest make in 2025?

De Biest posted a profit after taxes of € 5,768,841 in financial year 2025.

What is the revenue of De Biest?

In its most recent annual accounts (2025), De Biest reported revenue of € 47,959,385.

How much does an employee at De Biest earn?

The average wage cost per full-time employee at De Biest was € 77,900 in 2025: staff costs of € 506,037 for 6.5 FTE, according to the annual account at the National Bank. That is the employer's cost, not net pay.

How many employees does De Biest have?

According to the 2025 annual accounts, De Biest has 6.5 full-time equivalents (FTE).

De Biest (Public Limited) - Kruisem - BE0417143748

Dossier De Biest, printed on 29 October 2026 from databakkes.be/en/0417143748/de-biest. Sources: CBE, National Bank of Belgium, Belgian Official Gazette.

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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.

Shrinking team NBB

FTE fell two years in a row, from 12.2 to 6.5.

Financials

Financial year 2025

De Biest from Kruisem, company number BE0417143748, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 5.8 million after tax. For that financial year De Biest recorded revenue of € 48 million and equity of € 17.9 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 5.2 million to € 5.8 million. 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 29, 2026.

What it is worth Growing

€ 17.9 million

Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.

Profit Growing

€ 5.8 million

▲ 12% vs 2024

Profit after tax over the fiscal year.

Cash in the bank

€ 4.9 million

▼ 1% vs 2024

Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.

Where the profit goes Pays out

€ 5.7 million paid out

99 % of the profit went to the shareholders, mostly to ORION PR (100 % of the shares). That is where the money ends up.

People and assets in 2025

Full-time equivalents

6.5

▼ 3.5 vs 2024

Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.

Wage cost Staff costs are payroll only. Director pay sits with services and miscellaneous goods: € 10.3 million in 2025, together with rent, insurance, accountants and other services. The accounts do not split that further.

€ 506,037

▼ 22% vs 2024

€ 77,900 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.

Vehicles and equipment

€ 34,135

▼ 33% vs 2024

Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.

Debts at end 2025

Bank debt ≈ 2 years to go The accounts give the long-term loan and the part due within the year. The remainder divided by that part is the number of years at an equal pace; a new loan or early repayment changes it.

€ 428,101

▼ 34% vs 2024

€ 221,666 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 2 years.

Owed to suppliers

€ 8.5 million

▲ 58% vs 2024

Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 77 days on average.

Taxes and wages

€ 395,293

▼ 21% vs 2024

Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.

Key figures per fiscal year Download key figures (CSV)
	2022	2023	2024	2025	Change 2024 → 2025
Revenue	€ 47,203,904 Revenue 2022: € 47,203,904 First fiscal year in the series	€ 51,377,833 Revenue 2023: € 51,377,833 ▲ 9% vs 2022 (€ 47,203,904) Favourable step	€ 45,410,047 Revenue 2024: € 45,410,047 ▼ 12% vs 2023 (€ 51,377,833) Unfavourable step	€ 47,959,385 Revenue 2025: € 47,959,385 ▲ 6% vs 2024 (€ 45,410,047) Favourable step	▲ 6%
Profit after taxes	€ 2,246,047 Profit after taxes 2022: € 2,246,047 First fiscal year in the series	€ 2,502,091 Profit after taxes 2023: € 2,502,091 ▲ 11% vs 2022 (€ 2,246,047) Favourable step	€ 5,160,337 Profit after taxes 2024: € 5,160,337 ▲ 106% vs 2023 (€ 2,502,091) Favourable step	€ 5,768,841 Profit after taxes 2025: € 5,768,841 ▲ 12% vs 2024 (€ 5,160,337) Favourable step	▲ 12%
Equity	€ 10,205,414 Equity 2022: € 10,205,414 First fiscal year in the series	€ 12,707,505 Equity 2023: € 12,707,505 ▲ 25% vs 2022 (€ 10,205,414) Favourable step	€ 17,867,842 Equity 2024: € 17,867,842 ▲ 41% vs 2023 (€ 12,707,505) Favourable step	€ 17,936,684 Equity 2025: € 17,936,684 Unchanged (€ 17,867,842) Favourable step
Total debts	€ 9,737,098 Total debts 2022: € 9,737,098 First fiscal year in the series	€ 6,255,471 Total debts 2023: € 6,255,471 ▼ 36% vs 2022 (€ 9,737,098) Favourable step	€ 7,207,100 Total debts 2024: € 7,207,100 ▲ 15% vs 2023 (€ 6,255,471) Unfavourable step	€ 15,538,173 Total debts 2025: € 15,538,173 ▲ 116% vs 2024 (€ 7,207,100) Unfavourable step	▲ 116%
Cash	€ 4,357,198 Cash 2022: € 4,357,198 First fiscal year in the series	€ 2,141,095 Cash 2023: € 2,141,095 ▼ 51% vs 2022 (€ 4,357,198) Unfavourable step	€ 4,944,835 Cash 2024: € 4,944,835 ▲ 131% vs 2023 (€ 2,141,095) Favourable step	€ 4,882,176 Cash 2025: € 4,882,176 ▼ 1% vs 2024 (€ 4,944,835) Unfavourable step	▼ 1%
Land & buildings	€ 852,889 Land & buildings 2022: € 852,889 First fiscal year in the series	€ 682,137 Land & buildings 2023: € 682,137 ▼ 20% vs 2022 (€ 852,889) Unchanged	€ 129,533 Land & buildings 2024: € 129,533 ▼ 81% vs 2023 (€ 682,137) Unchanged	€ 118,081 Land & buildings 2025: € 118,081 ▼ 9% vs 2024 (€ 129,533) Unchanged	▼ 9%
Retained profit	€ 10,030,414 Retained profit 2022: € 10,030,414 First fiscal year in the series	€ 12,532,505 Retained profit 2023: € 12,532,505 ▲ 25% vs 2022 (€ 10,030,414) Favourable step	€ 17,692,842 Retained profit 2024: € 17,692,842 ▲ 41% vs 2023 (€ 12,532,505) Favourable step	€ 17,761,684 Retained profit 2025: € 17,761,684 Unchanged (€ 17,692,842) Favourable step
Dividend	€ 0 Dividend 2022: € 0 First fiscal year in the series	€ 0 Dividend 2023: € 0 Unchanged (€ 0) Unchanged	€ 0 Dividend 2024: € 0 Unchanged (€ 0) Unchanged	€ 5,700,000 Dividend 2025: € 5,700,000 Unchanged (€ 0) Unchanged
Bank debt	€ 1,071,551 Bank debt 2022: € 1,071,551 First fiscal year in the series	€ 860,600 Bank debt 2023: € 860,600 ▼ 20% vs 2022 (€ 1,071,551) Favourable step	€ 646,136 Bank debt 2024: € 646,136 ▼ 25% vs 2023 (€ 860,600) Favourable step	€ 428,101 Bank debt 2025: € 428,101 ▼ 34% vs 2024 (€ 646,136) Favourable step	▼ 34%
Balance sheet total	€ 19,942,512 Balance sheet total 2022: € 19,942,512 First fiscal year in the series	€ 18,962,976 Balance sheet total 2023: € 18,962,976 ▼ 5% vs 2022 (€ 19,942,512) Unchanged	€ 25,074,942 Balance sheet total 2024: € 25,074,942 ▲ 32% vs 2023 (€ 18,962,976) Unchanged	€ 33,474,857 Balance sheet total 2025: € 33,474,857 ▲ 33% vs 2024 (€ 25,074,942) Unchanged	▲ 33%
Employees (FTE)	13.4 Employees (FTE) 2022: 13.4 First fiscal year in the series	12.2 Employees (FTE) 2023: 12.2 ▼ 1.2 vs 2022 (13.4) Unchanged	10 Employees (FTE) 2024: 10 ▼ 2.2 vs 2023 (12.2) Unchanged	6.5 Employees (FTE) 2025: 6.5 ▼ 3.5 vs 2024 (10) Unchanged	▼ 3.5

Key figures of De Biest, 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 De Biest?

What happened at De Biest in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:

Jul 29, 2026 New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 5.8 million (▲ 12% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
2026 ORION PR NV stepped down as director. NBB
2026 Roseline Ragolle stepped down as director. NBB
2020 ORION PR NV became a director. NBB
2020 Roseline Ragolle became a director. NBB
Oct 1, 2014 New establishment in Lichtervelde. KBO
Feb 20, 2013 New establishment in Kruisem. KBO
Oct 22, 2012 New establishment in Aalter. KBO

In short

From € 2.2 million profit in 2022 to € 5.8 million profit in 2025.

Paid € 5 million in corporate taxes since 2022.

Best year ever: 2025, with € 5.8 million profit.

Paid out € 5.7 million in dividends to the owners in total.

Original PDFs at the National Bank ↗

Management

ORION PR 100%

The stake of ORION PR comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.

De Biest

The shares are held by ORION PR (100%).

Directors

According to the 2025 annual accounts

ORION PR NV

Director · represented by Patrick Van Rijckeghem

Also active at: RAGOLLE, DEBIFIN, PARK ROOSEVELT

since 2020 · until 2026

Roseline Ragolle

Director

Also active at: RAGOLLE, DEBIFIN, Elveba, PARK ROOSEVELT, ORION PR, DISA-TRANS, MARYLO II

since 2020 · until 2026

Shareholders

ORION PR

100%

Participations

No participations in other companies reported.

Establishments

Establishment units

Physical locations of this company

Registered office

Waregemsesteenweg(KRU) 186

9770 Kruisem

2.213.525.845

Wageweg 3

9880 Aalter

Active since 22 October 2012

2.220.550.229

Deinse Baan 12

9750 Kruisem

Active since 20 February 2013

2.220.553.791

Houtstraat 81

9870 Zulte

Active since 12 May 1977

2.235.002.536

Kleine Zwevezelestraat 2

8810 Lichtervelde

Active since 1 October 2014

Who else lives here?

A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 6 companies are registered at this address.

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Details

Company number

0417.143.748

VAT number

BE 0417.143.748

Registered office

Waregemsesteenweg(KRU) 186, 9770 Kruisem

Names & denominations

De Biest

Enterprise type

Rechtspersoon

Legal form

Public limited company

Legal situation

Normale toestand

Start date

12 May 1977

Peppol

Active · Active since 21 Oct 2026

Activities · NACE

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