Warning lights
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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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2024 and 2025.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 151.7 to 134.4.
Financials
Financial year 2025
SANTENS GROEP from Gent, company number BE0419937447, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -2 million after tax. For that financial year SANTENS GROEP recorded revenue of € 44.6 million and equity of € 5.9 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -1.5 million to € -2 million. The company made a loss. The buffer is growing. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on September 15, 2026.
€ 5.9 million
▲ 71% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -2 million
▼ 36 % more loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 1.4 million
▲ 63% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 783,390.
People and assets in 2025
134.4
▼ 11.1 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 9.4 million
▼ 3% vs 2024
€ 69,700 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.
€ 390,543
▼ 9% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 6.9 million
▼ 36% vs 2024
€ 10,903 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 4 years.
€ 4.3 million
▲ 17% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 42 days on average.
€ 1.8 million
▲ 12% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Revenue | € 49,394,800 | € 47,459,168 | € 46,156,002 | € 44,605,631 | ▼ 3% |
| Profit after taxes | € 125,320 | € -1,750,614 | € -1,505,040 | € -2,042,130 | ▼ € 537,090 |
| Equity | € 6,707,555 | € 4,956,940 | € 3,451,900 | € 5,909,770 | ▲ 71% |
| Total debts | € 17,081,771 | € 14,588,780 | € 16,430,388 | € 13,530,497 | ▼ 18% |
| Cash | € 1,014,118 | € 643,140 | € 839,863 | € 1,371,025 | ▲ 63% |
| Land & buildings | € 64,220 | € 59,753 | € 52,281 | € 79,683 | ▲ 52% |
| Retained profit | € 6,081,174 | € 4,330,560 | € 2,825,520 | € 783,390 | ▼ 72% |
| Bank debt | € 7,019,143 | € 5,340,000 | € 10,808,110 | € 6,940,336 | ▼ 36% |
| Balance sheet total | € 23,789,326 | € 19,604,239 | € 19,919,546 | € 19,453,533 | ▼ 2% |
| Employees (FTE) | 162.2 | 151.7 | 145.5 | 134.4 | ▼ 11.1 |
Key figures of SANTENS GROEP, 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 SANTENS GROEP?
What happened at SANTENS GROEP in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Vandes BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Santens Holding BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Gaëtane Santens stepped down as director. NBB
- Noël Vande Walle stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 2 million. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Vandes BV became a director. NBB
- Santens Holding BV became a director. NBB
- Gaëtane Santens became a director. NBB
In short
From € 125,320 profit in 2022 to € 2 million loss in 2025.
Paid € 31,730 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 125,320 profit.
Pays suppliers within 42 days on average.
Management
The shares are held by Santens Holding BV (97.8%), Vandes BV (1.1%), Noël Vande Walle (1.1%), Gaëtane Santens and Gunter Santens.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Bram Vande Walle
since 2025 · until 2031
Director · represented by Santens Günter
Also active at: SANTENS LOGISTICS, IMMO SANTENS METAALWAREN, RADETEC, SANTENS IMMO, NIEUW ARBED, Immo SDJ
since 2025 · until 2031
since 2021 · until 2027
Gaëtane Santens
Director
Is a shareholder · Owns 48.9% via Santens Holding BV
Also active at: GENERAL TRADE AND TRUST LIMITED, IMMO SANTENS METAALWAREN, SANTENS HOLDING, NIEUW ARBED, Immo SDJ
since 2025 · until 2031
Shareholders
Santens Holding BV · holding of Gaëtane Santens
97.8%
1.1%
Noël Vande Walle · director
1.1%
Gaëtane Santens · director
Gunter Santens
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Nijverheidskaai 3
9040 Gent
Dirk Martensstraat 18
8200 Brugge
Active since 1 January 2015
Gentse Baan 64
9100 Sint-Niklaas
Active since 1 August 2015
Gentbruggestraat 175
9040 Gent
Active since 16 October 2015
Geelseweg(HRT) 9A
2200 Herentals
Active since 12 April 2019
Fraterstraat 115
9820 Merelbeke-Melle
Active since 12 April 2019
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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€ 356,769 gross margin · 2026
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Details
- Company number
- 0419.937.447
- VAT number
- BE 0419.937.447
- Registered office
- Nijverheidskaai 3, 9040 Gent
- Names & denominations
- SANTENS GROEP
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 13 December 1979
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 1 Jul 2026
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