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 6.8 to 4.5.
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Busy address KBO
27 other companies have their registered office at the same address; threshold 10.
Financials
Financial year 2025
ELEX from Sint-Truiden, company number BE0421226161, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 253.7 million after tax. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -64.7 million to € 253.7 million. 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 June 18, 2026.
€ 1.7 billion
▲ 17% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 253.7 million
▲ still € 64.7 million loss in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 120.7 million
▼ 40% 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 € 1.6 billion.
People and assets in 2025
4.5
▼ 0.9 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 327,784
▼ 3% vs 2024
€ 72,800 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.
€ 260
▼ 94% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 111.7 million
▼ 42% vs 2024
€ 5.7 million is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 5 years.
€ 133,538
▲ 76% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 19 days on average.
€ 5.5 million
▼ 65% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 9,100 | - | - | - | |
| Profit after taxes | € 63,623,084 | € 965,177,589 | € -64,710,219 | € 253,680,202 | ▲ € 318.4 million |
| Equity | € 582,539,136 | € 1,547,716,725 | € 1,483,006,506 | € 1,736,686,708 | ▲ 17% |
| Total debts | € 120,512,603 | € 216,867,482 | € 452,890,648 | € 308,682,268 | ▼ 32% |
| Cash | € 104,400,740 | € 101,107,167 | € 200,091,296 | € 120,719,239 | ▼ 40% |
| Retained profit | € 409,257,052 | € 1,374,434,641 | € 1,309,724,423 | € 1,563,404,624 | ▲ 19% |
| Bank debt | € 43,397,458 | € 87,686,490 | € 193,534,812 | € 111,739,415 | ▼ 42% |
| Balance sheet total | € 703,051,739 | € 1,764,584,206 | € 1,935,897,154 | € 2,045,368,976 | ▲ 6% |
| Employees (FTE) | 6.9 | 6.8 | 5.4 | 4.5 | ▼ 0.9 |
Key figures of ELEX, 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 ELEX?
What happened at ELEX in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- ROLAND DUCHATELET stepped down as director. NBB
- LAURA DUCHATELET stepped down as director. NBB
- LIEVEN DE TURCK stepped down as director. NBB
- KATRIEN MEIRE stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 253.7 million. Source: NBB ↗
- RODERICK DUCHATELET stepped down as director. NBB
- RODERICK DUCHATELET became a director. NBB
- ROLAND DUCHATELET became a director. NBB
In short
From € 63.6 million profit in 2022 to € 253.7 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 29.5 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 965.2 million profit.
Pays suppliers within 19 days on average.
Management
It owns 100% of XPEQTIS EOOD, 100% of FREMACH INTERNATIONAL, 100% of I2Coach NV, 100% of Loctural SA, 100% of Stayen and 98% of Staprix NV itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
LAURA DUCHATELET
Director
since 2022 · until 2028
RODERICK DUCHATELET
Director
since 2025 · until 2025
since 2025 · until 2031
since 2022 · until 2028
KATRIEN MEIRE
Director
since 2022 · until 2028
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Tiensesteenweg 168 box c204
3800 Sint-Truiden
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 27 companies are registered at this address.
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€ 134,603 gross margin · 2023
STAYEN same network
€ 1.5 million gross margin · 2025
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What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0421.226.161
- VAT number
- BE 0421.226.161
- Registered office
- Tiensesteenweg 168 bus c204, 3800 Sint-Truiden
- Names & denominations
- ELEX
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 30 December 1980
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