Warning lights
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 17.3 to 14.6.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Ets SIMON from Liège, company number BE0420052362, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 9,075 after tax. For that financial year Ets SIMON recorded revenue of € 9.1 million and equity of € 3.2 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -169,406 to € 9,075. 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.
€ 3.2 million
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 9,075
▲ still € 169,406 loss in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 590,279
▼ 46% 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 € 3.1 million.
People and assets in 2025
14.6
▼ 2.2 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1 million
▼ 3% vs 2024
€ 71,300 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.
€ 59,909
▼ 50% vs 2024
Of which on lease € 22,238.
Debts at end 2025
€ 24,246
▼ 63% vs 2024
€ 11,107 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 2 years.
€ 972,585
▼ 52% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 45 days on average.
€ 213,340
▲ 31% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 13,822,496 | € 13,814,504 | € 12,829,837 | € 9,119,805 | ▼ 29% |
| Profit after taxes | € 592,949 | € 589,040 | € -169,406 | € 9,075 | ▲ € 178,480 |
| Equity | € 2,734,900 | € 3,322,649 | € 3,151,934 | € 3,159,659 | |
| Total debts | € 4,823,985 | € 4,605,941 | € 2,246,230 | € 1,218,983 | ▼ 46% |
| Cash | € 1,826,993 | € 1,282,516 | € 1,095,525 | € 590,279 | ▼ 46% |
| Retained profit | € 2,662,587 | € 3,251,627 | € 3,082,221 | € 3,091,296 | |
| Dividend | € 1,250,000 | € 0 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Bank debt | € 39,344 | € 57,214 | € 66,378 | € 24,246 | ▼ 63% |
| Balance sheet total | € 7,558,885 | € 7,928,590 | € 5,398,164 | € 4,378,642 | ▼ 19% |
| Employees (FTE) | 17.1 | 17.3 | 16.8 | 14.6 | ▼ 2.2 |
Key figures of Ets SIMON, 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 Ets SIMON?
What happened at Ets SIMON in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- GROUPE LAMBERT HOLDING SA stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 9,075. Source: NBB ↗
- GROUPE SIMON HOLDING SA stepped down as director. NBB
- GROUPE LAMBERT HOLDING SA became a director. NBB
- GROUPE SIMON HOLDING SA became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Liège. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 592,949 profit in 2022 to € 9,075 profit in 2025.
Paid € 489,712 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 592,949 profit.
Paid out € 1.3 million in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
The stake of GROUPE LAMBERT HOLDING, GROUPE SIMON HOLDING comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
Ets SIMONThe shares are held by GROUPE LAMBERT HOLDING (100%) and GROUPE SIMON HOLDING (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Managing director · represented by Jean-Christophe LAMBERT
Also active at: Centrale des Produits chimiques et de peinture
since 2020 · until 2025
Managing director · represented by Jean-Christophe LAMBERT
Also active at: Centrale des Produits chimiques et de peinture, TRADINEX, GLORIEUX, LAMBERT & F. -D., PROSHOP GEMBLOUX, LAMBERT DISTRIBUTION, GROUPE SIMON HOLDING
since 2025 · until 2031
Shareholders
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Avenue Albert-Ier 123
4030 Liège
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Website
Technologies
Hosting & Email
Email provider
Mail.com
Hosting
OVH, FR
DNS
OVH DNS
Website info
Features
Security
Details
- Company number
- 0420.052.362
- VAT number
- BE 0420.052.362
- Registered office
- Avenue Albert-Ier 123, 4030 Liège
- Names & denominations
- Ets SIMON
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 17 January 1980
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 16 Sept 2025
- Contact
- simondeco.be
- Activities · NACE
Groothandel in bouwmaterialen, algemeen assortiment
Groothandel in verf, vernis en bouwmaterialen, inclusief sanitair
Detailhandel in verf en verfwaren