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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.
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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2024 and 2025.
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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 55 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
VENTURA from Merchtem, company number BE0420624266, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -34,749 after tax. For that financial year VENTURA recorded a gross margin of € 1.5 million and equity of € 1.4 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -266,013 to € -34,749. 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 30, 2026.
€ 1.4 million
▲ 4% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -34,749
▲ 87 % less loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 451,102
▼ 53% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 1.3 million.
People and assets in 2025
24.5
▲ 0.3 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.1 million
▲ 4% vs 2024
€ 45,000 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.
€ 138,880
▲ 31% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 439,999
▼ 14% vs 2024
€ 73,333 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 6 years.
€ 641,766
▲ 180% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 159,878
▼ 15% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 1,276,188 | € 1,354,135 | € 1,231,881 | € 1,458,177 | ▲ 18% |
| Profit after taxes | € 81,817 | € -7,620 | € -266,013 | € -34,749 | ▲ € 231,264 |
| Equity | € 1,621,360 | € 1,612,662 | € 1,345,572 | € 1,395,987 | ▲ 4% |
| Total debts | € 2,775,669 | € 4,024,362 | € 5,382,106 | € 4,721,378 | ▼ 12% |
| Cash | € 356,664 | € 575,214 | € 952,993 | € 451,102 | ▼ 53% |
| Land & buildings | € 1,358,057 | € 1,627,669 | € 2,311,026 | € 2,661,371 | ▲ 15% |
| Retained profit | € 1,587,440 | € 1,579,820 | € 1,313,807 | € 1,279,058 | ▼ 3% |
| Bank debt | € 659,999 | € 586,666 | € 513,332 | € 439,999 | ▼ 14% |
| Balance sheet total | € 4,427,980 | € 5,665,304 | € 6,753,286 | € 6,140,490 | ▼ 9% |
| Employees (FTE) | 23.4 | 23.4 | 24.2 | 24.5 | ▲ 0.3 |
Key figures of VENTURA, 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 VENTURA?
What happened at VENTURA in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 34,749. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Berlare. KBO
- Emile De Vleeschouwer became a director. NBB
- Jurgen De Vleeschouwer became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Ath. KBO
- New establishment in Beringen. KBO
- New establishment in Merchtem. KBO
- New establishment in Lichtervelde. KBO
In short
From € 81,817 profit in 2022 to € 34,749 loss in 2025.
Paid € 67,837 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 81,817 profit.
On average € 59,500 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
Behind VENTURA are Emile De Vleeschouwer and Jurgen De Vleeschouwer. It owns 25.3% of Vefin itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Emile De Vleeschouwer
Director
Also active at: VEFIN, ISOLANO, VENTURA INTERNATIONAL, AUTONOOM GEMEENTEBEDRIJF BOORTMEERBEEK, SFIDA
since 2018
since 2018
Establishments
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Physical locations of this company
Brusselsesteenweg 188
1785 Merchtem
Koolskampstraat 112
8810 Lichtervelde
Active since 10 July 1980
Tervantstraat 7
3583 Beringen
Active since 12 November 2015
Chaussée de Bruxelles 303
7800 Ath
Active since 1 December 2016
Baron Tibbautstraat(O) 72
9290 Berlare
Active since 4 May 2026
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- Company number
- 0420.624.266
- VAT number
- BE 0420.624.266
- Registered office
- Brusselsesteenweg 188, 1785 Merchtem
- Names & denominations
- VENTURA
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 10 July 1980
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- Active · Active since 30 Dec 2025
- Contact
- ventura-belgium.be
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