Financials
Financial year 2025
Gross margin
€ 0
Profit
Growing€ 39.1 million
▲ 1961% vs 2024
Debts
Low€ 77.5 million
▼ 51% vs 2024
What's Cooking Group from Gent, company number BE0421364139, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 39.1 million after tax. For that financial year What's Cooking Group recorded a gross margin of € 0 and equity of € 114.4 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -2.1 million to € 39.1 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 9, 2026.
What happened at What's Cooking Group?
What happened at What's Cooking Group in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Holbigenetics NV stepped down as director. NBB
- Tower Consulting BV stepped down as director. NBB
- C:Solutio BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Eddy Van der Pluym stepped down as director. NBB
- Hico NV stepped down as director. NBB
- IJzer Beheer BV stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 39.1 million. Source: NBB ↗
- Famcoo Invest BV stepped down as director. NBB
In short
From € 8.3 million profit in 2021 to € 39.1 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 506,728 in corporate taxes since 2021.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 39.1 million profit.
Paid out € 49.3 million in dividends to the owners in total.
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Management
The shares are held by Stichting Coovan (66.3%). It owns 100% of What's Cooking Belgium itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
since 2024 · until 2028
Director · represented by Dominique Coopman
since 2022 · until 2026
Director · represented by Ingeborg Plochaet
since 2024 · until 2028
Eddy Van der Pluym
Director
since 2023 · until 2027
since 2023 · until 2027
Managing director · represented by Piet Sanders
Also active at: What’s Cooking Wommelgem, What’s Cooking Waarschoot, What’s Cooking Immo +7 more
since 2022 · until 2026
IJzer Beheer BV
Director · represented by Aart Duijzer
since 2023 · until 2027
Director · represented by Ann Vereecke
Also active at: DECEUNINCK, Tessenderlo Group, Vlerick Partner
since 2022 · until 2026
since 2023 · until 2026
since 2024 · until 2028
Shareholders
Stichting Coovan
66.3%
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Physical locations of this company
Kortrijksesteenweg 1091 box C
9051 Gent
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- Company number
- 0421.364.139
- VAT number
- BE 0421.364.139
- Registered office
- Kortrijksesteenweg 1091 bus C, 9051 Gent
- Names & denominations
- What's Cooking Group
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 19 March 1981
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- Active · Active since 25 Sept 2025
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