Ontex is registered with the CBE as active in: Vervaardiging van huishoudelijke en sanitaire papierwaren. Private Limited, started on 2 June 1979, 3 establishments.

What is the address of Ontex?

The registered office of Ontex is located at Genthof 5, 9255 Buggenhout.

Is Ontex still active?

Yes. According to the CBE (29 October 2026) Ontex is active, legal situation “Normale toestand”, started on 2 June 1979.

Is Ontex registered on Peppol?

Yes, Ontex is registered on the Peppol network with ID 0208:0419457296.

What is the enterprise number of Ontex?

The enterprise number of Ontex is BE0419457296.

When was Ontex founded?

Ontex was founded on 2 June 1979.

Who are the directors of Ontex?

According to the 2025 annual accounts, the directors of Ontex are: Deroo Management & Consulting BV, Émage Europe BV, Chilibri BV, Jonas Deroo.

Is Ontex a reliable company?

Databakkes does not pass judgement; this is what the sources say: Active according to the CBE since 2 June 1979; 5 annual accounts filed, latest fiscal year 2025; 4 directors known from the annual account; 3 establishments in the CBE.

How much profit did Ontex make in 2025?

Ontex posted a profit after taxes of € 42,376,464 in financial year 2025.

What is the revenue of Ontex?

In its most recent annual accounts (2025), Ontex reported revenue of € 1,508,177,428.

How much does an employee at Ontex earn?

The average wage cost per full-time employee at Ontex was € 91,300 in 2025: staff costs of € 52.9 million for 578.9 FTE, according to the annual account at the National Bank. That is the employer's cost, not net pay.

How many employees does Ontex have?

According to the 2025 annual accounts, Ontex has 578.9 full-time equivalents (FTE).

Ontex (Private Limited) - Buggenhout - BE0419457296

Dossier Ontex, printed on 29 October 2026 from databakkes.be/en/0419457296/ontex. Sources: CBE, National Bank of Belgium, Belgian Official Gazette.

Warning lights

Signals from the annual accounts, the CBE and the Official Gazette, each with its threshold and source. No score, no verdict.

Tight liquidity NBB

Cash and receivables cover 52 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Shrinking team NBB

FTE fell two years in a row, from 978.1 to 578.9.

Financials

Financial year 2025

Ontex from Buggenhout, company number BE0419457296, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 42.4 million after tax. For that financial year Ontex recorded revenue of € 1.5 billion and equity of € 360.1 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 87.2 million to € 42.4 million. The company is profitable. The buffer is growing. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on July 6, 2026.

What it is worth Growing

€ 360.1 million

▲ 13% vs 2024

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

Profit Healthy

€ 42.4 million

▼ 51% vs 2024

Profit after tax over the fiscal year.

Cash in the bank

€ 27.2 million

▼ 86% vs 2024

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

Where the profit goes Growing

Stays in the company

No dividend for 2025. Retained profit grew to € 271 million.

People and assets in 2025

Full-time equivalents

578.9

▼ 329.3 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: € 240.9 million in 2025, together with rent, insurance, accountants and other services. The accounts do not split that further.

€ 52.9 million

▼ 28% vs 2024

€ 91,300 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

€ 34,444

▼ 38% vs 2024

Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.

Debts at end 2025

Bank debt

€ 475.5 million

▼ 27% vs 2024

Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.

Owed to suppliers

€ 263.1 million

▼ 6% vs 2024

Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 68 days on average.

Taxes and wages

€ 21.8 million

▼ 27% 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	€ 1,419,563,079 Revenue 2022: € 1,419,563,079 First fiscal year in the series	€ 1,570,107,655 Revenue 2023: € 1,570,107,655 ▲ 11% vs 2022 (€ 1,419,563,079) Favourable step	€ 1,575,312,954 Revenue 2024: € 1,575,312,954 Unchanged (€ 1,570,107,655) Favourable step	€ 1,508,177,428 Revenue 2025: € 1,508,177,428 ▼ 4% vs 2024 (€ 1,575,312,954) Unfavourable step	▼ 4%
Profit after taxes	€ -42,289,884 Profit after taxes 2022: € -42,289,884 First fiscal year in the series	€ 80,018,428 Profit after taxes 2023: € 80,018,428 ▲ € 122.3 million vs 2022 (€ -42,289,884) Favourable step	€ 87,240,711 Profit after taxes 2024: € 87,240,711 ▲ 9% vs 2023 (€ 80,018,428) Favourable step	€ 42,376,464 Profit after taxes 2025: € 42,376,464 ▼ 51% vs 2024 (€ 87,240,711) Unfavourable step	▼ 51%
Equity	€ 150,490,919 Equity 2022: € 150,490,919 First fiscal year in the series	€ 230,509,347 Equity 2023: € 230,509,347 ▲ 53% vs 2022 (€ 150,490,919) Favourable step	€ 317,750,058 Equity 2024: € 317,750,058 ▲ 38% vs 2023 (€ 230,509,347) Favourable step	€ 360,126,520 Equity 2025: € 360,126,520 ▲ 13% vs 2024 (€ 317,750,058) Favourable step	▲ 13%
Total debts	€ 1,076,775,042 Total debts 2022: € 1,076,775,042 First fiscal year in the series	€ 964,516,857 Total debts 2023: € 964,516,857 ▼ 10% vs 2022 (€ 1,076,775,042) Favourable step	€ 971,481,275 Total debts 2024: € 971,481,275 ▲ 1% vs 2023 (€ 964,516,857) Unfavourable step	€ 768,712,480 Total debts 2025: € 768,712,480 ▼ 21% vs 2024 (€ 971,481,275) Favourable step	▼ 21%
Cash	€ 19,273,177 Cash 2022: € 19,273,177 First fiscal year in the series	€ 180,084,490 Cash 2023: € 180,084,490 ▲ € 160.8 million vs 2022 (€ 19,273,177) Favourable step	€ 199,598,391 Cash 2024: € 199,598,391 ▲ 11% vs 2023 (€ 180,084,490) Favourable step	€ 27,223,425 Cash 2025: € 27,223,425 ▼ 86% vs 2024 (€ 199,598,391) Unfavourable step	▼ 86%
Land & buildings	€ 847,574 Land & buildings 2022: € 847,574 First fiscal year in the series	€ 1,273,587 Land & buildings 2023: € 1,273,587 ▲ 50% vs 2022 (€ 847,574) Unchanged	€ 1,390,560 Land & buildings 2024: € 1,390,560 ▲ 9% vs 2023 (€ 1,273,587) Unchanged	€ 1,289,625 Land & buildings 2025: € 1,289,625 ▼ 7% vs 2024 (€ 1,390,560) Unchanged	▼ 7%
Retained profit	€ 61,382,675 Retained profit 2022: € 61,382,675 First fiscal year in the series	€ 141,401,103 Retained profit 2023: € 141,401,103 ▲ 130% vs 2022 (€ 61,382,675) Favourable step	€ 228,641,814 Retained profit 2024: € 228,641,814 ▲ 62% vs 2023 (€ 141,401,103) Favourable step	€ 271,018,278 Retained profit 2025: € 271,018,278 ▲ 19% vs 2024 (€ 228,641,814) Favourable step	▲ 19%
Bank debt	€ 762,204,251 Bank debt 2022: € 762,204,251 First fiscal year in the series	€ 648,043,802 Bank debt 2023: € 648,043,802 ▼ 15% vs 2022 (€ 762,204,251) Favourable step	€ 648,043,802 Bank debt 2024: € 648,043,802 Unchanged (€ 648,043,802) Unchanged	€ 475,507,322 Bank debt 2025: € 475,507,322 ▼ 27% vs 2024 (€ 648,043,802) Favourable step	▼ 27%
Balance sheet total	€ 1,227,699,071 Balance sheet total 2022: € 1,227,699,071 First fiscal year in the series	€ 1,195,459,314 Balance sheet total 2023: € 1,195,459,314 ▼ 3% vs 2022 (€ 1,227,699,071) Unchanged	€ 1,320,864,443 Balance sheet total 2024: € 1,320,864,443 ▲ 10% vs 2023 (€ 1,195,459,314) Unchanged	€ 1,140,244,152 Balance sheet total 2025: € 1,140,244,152 ▼ 14% vs 2024 (€ 1,320,864,443) Unchanged	▼ 14%
Employees (FTE)	1,002.7 Employees (FTE) 2022: 1,002.7 First fiscal year in the series	978.1 Employees (FTE) 2023: 978.1 ▼ 24.6 vs 2022 (1,002.7) Unchanged	908.2 Employees (FTE) 2024: 908.2 ▼ 69.9 vs 2023 (978.1) Unchanged	578.9 Employees (FTE) 2025: 578.9 ▼ 329.3 vs 2024 (908.2) Unchanged	▼ 329.3

Key figures of Ontex, 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 Ontex?

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

Jul 6, 2026 New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 42.4 million (▼ 51% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
2025 Deroo Management & Consulting BV became a director. NBB
2025 Jonas Deroo stepped down as director. NBB
2024 Jonas Deroo became a director. NBB
2024 Émage Europe BV became a director. NBB
2024 Chilibri BV became a director. NBB
Jul 12, 2011 New establishment in Aalst. KBO
Nov 18, 1997 New establishment in Eeklo. KBO

In short

From € 42.3 million loss in 2022 to € 42.4 million profit in 2025.

Paid € 6.7 million in corporate taxes since 2022.

Best year ever: 2024, with € 87.2 million profit.

Pays suppliers within 68 days on average.

Original PDFs at the National Bank ↗

Management

Ontex Group NV 100%

Ontex

Ontex US Holdco LLC 100%

Ontex Hygienic Disposables (Shanghai) LTD 100%

Ontex Manufacturing Australia Pty Ltd 100%

Ontex Polska sp. z.o.o. 100%

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Behind Ontex are Deroo Management & Consulting BV, Émage Europe BV and Chilibri BV. The shares are held by Ontex Group NV (100%). It owns 100% of Ontex US Holdco LLC, 100% of Ontex Hygienic Disposables (Shanghai) LTD, 100% of Ontex Manufacturing Australia Pty Ltd, 100% of Ontex Polska sp. z.o.o., 100% of Ontex Health Care UK ltd and 100% of Ontex Retail UK ltd itself.

Directors

According to the 2025 annual accounts

Deroo Management & Consulting BV

Director · represented by Jonas Deroo

Also active at: EUTIMA

since 2025

Émage Europe BV

Director · represented by Laurent Nielly

Also active at: EUTIMA

since 2024

Chilibri BV

Director · represented by Geert Peeters

Also active at: EUTIMA

since 2024

Jonas Deroo

Director

since 2024 · until 2025

Shareholders

Ontex Group NV

100%

Participations

Ontex US Holdco LLC

100%

Ontex Hygienic Disposables (Shanghai) LTD

100%

Ontex Manufacturing Australia Pty Ltd

100%

Ontex Polska sp. z.o.o.

100%

Ontex Health Care UK ltd

100%

Ontex Retail UK ltd

100%

Ontex RU LLC

100%

Eutima

100%

Ontex Hygienic Spain SL

100%

Serenity Holdco SRL

100%

Ontex Romania SRL

100%

Ontex Hygienic Disposables Co.LD BO

100%

Ontex Ukraine LLC

100%

Hygiène Medica SAS

100%

Ontex Mexico Operations SA de C.V

100%

Ontex Hygienic Disposables PLC

99%

Ontex Vertrieb GmbH

17.2%

Establishments

Establishment units

Physical locations of this company

Registered office

Genthof 5

9255 Buggenhout

2.072.978.288

Korte Moeie 53

9900 Eeklo

Active since 18 November 1997

2.202.459.828

Korte Keppestraat 21

9320 Aalst

Active since 12 July 2011

Who else lives here?

A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 2 companies are registered at this address.

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Company number: 0419.457.296
VAT number: BE 0419.457.296
Registered office: Genthof 5, 9255 Buggenhout
Names & denominations: Ontex
Enterprise type: Rechtspersoon
Legal form: Private limited company
Legal situation: Normale toestand
Start date: 2 June 1979
Peppol: Active · Active since 28 Oct 2025
Activities · NACE: Vervaardiging van huishoudelijke en sanitaire papierwaren

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