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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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 22.6 to 0.
Financials
Financial year 2025
MERE from Riemst, company number BE0420497869, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 228,697 after tax. For that financial year MERE recorded a gross margin of € 281,992 and equity of € 2 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -136,031 to € 228,697. 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 May 4, 2026.
€ 2 million
▲ 13% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 228,697
▲ still € 136,031 loss in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 317,114
▲ 284% 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 € 1.9 million.
People and assets in 2025
0
▼ 0.3 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 932
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 601,055
▼ 25% vs 2024
€ 115,656 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 5 years.
€ 7,710
▲ 81% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 1,573,837 | € 1,804,989 | € 28,956 | € 281,992 | ▲ € 253,036 |
| Profit after taxes | € -29,381 | € 372,202 | € -136,031 | € 228,697 | ▲ € 364,728 |
| Equity | € 1,908,502 | € 1,994,990 | € 1,761,459 | € 1,990,156 | ▲ 13% |
| Total debts | € 2,563,610 | € 1,431,676 | € 908,525 | € 611,748 | ▼ 33% |
| Cash | € 387,264 | € 2,246,551 | € 82,545 | € 317,114 | ▲ 284% |
| Land & buildings | € 1,923,441 | € 355,981 | € 336,352 | € 658,981 | ▲ 96% |
| Retained profit | € 1,847,002 | € 1,933,490 | € 1,699,959 | € 1,928,656 | ▲ 13% |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 285,714 | € 97,500 | € 0 | ▼ 100% |
| Bank debt | € 1,405,176 | € 910,622 | € 799,473 | € 601,055 | ▼ 25% |
| Balance sheet total | € 4,472,112 | € 3,426,666 | € 2,669,984 | € 2,601,904 | ▼ 3% |
| Employees (FTE) | 32.9 | 22.6 | 0.3 | 0 | ▼ 0.3 |
Key figures of MERE, 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 MERE?
What happened at MERE in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Christine Merken stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 228,697. Source: NBB ↗
- Christine Merken became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Riemst. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 29,381 loss in 2022 to € 228,697 profit in 2025.
Paid € 128,365 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 372,202 profit.
On average € 79,900 of value added per employee in 2023.
Management
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Christine Merken
Managing director
since 2021 · until 2027
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Schepen Mengelslaan 13
3770 Riemst
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 2 companies are registered at this address.
All companies at this address →What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0420.497.869
- VAT number
- BE 0420.497.869
- Registered office
- Schepen Mengelslaan 13, 3770 Riemst
- Names & denominations
- MERE
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 12 June 1980
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 16 Dec 2025