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Financials
Financial year 2025
What's Cooking Group from Gent, company number BE0421364139, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 39.1 million after tax. 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.
€ 114.4 million
▲ 37% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 39.1 million
▲ still € 2.1 million loss in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 7.1 million
▲ 53% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 8.4 million paid out
21 % of the profit went to the shareholders, mostly to Stichting Coovan (66 % of the shares). That is where the money ends up.
People and assets in 2025
48.1
▼ 11.2 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 6.8 million
▼ 11% vs 2024
€ 142,100 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.
€ 100,875
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 37 million
▼ 59% vs 2024
€ 17 million is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 2 years.
€ 5 million
▼ 17% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 109 days on average.
€ 1.3 million
▼ 10% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Profit after taxes | € -1,941,392 | € 14,495,672 | € -2,101,724 | € 39,104,969 | ▲ € 41.2 million |
| Equity | € 95,056,375 | € 104,266,751 | € 83,603,227 | € 114,355,386 | ▲ 37% |
| Total debts | € 208,438,835 | € 235,238,876 | € 157,307,004 | € 77,495,296 | ▼ 51% |
| Cash | € 11,688,308 | € 10,069,929 | € 4,658,474 | € 7,112,880 | ▲ 53% |
| Land & buildings | € 39,366 | € 51,207 | € 44,990 | € 38,772 | ▼ 14% |
| Retained profit | € 32,858,974 | € 39,410,195 | € 18,746,671 | € 49,498,830 | ▲ 164% |
| Dividend | € 7,284,024 | € 7,944,450 | € 18,561,800 | € 8,352,810 | ▼ 55% |
| Bank debt | € 79,634,908 | € 136,000,000 | € 90,000,000 | € 37,000,000 | ▼ 59% |
| Balance sheet total | € 303,619,877 | € 339,953,547 | € 241,583,645 | € 192,658,862 | ▼ 20% |
| Employees (FTE) | 51.3 | 56 | 59.3 | 48.1 | ▼ 11.2 |
Key figures of What's Cooking Group, 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 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 € 1.9 million loss in 2022 to € 39.1 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 169,728 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 39.1 million profit.
Paid out € 42.1 million in dividends to the owners in total.
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De Lijn 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025
filed on 8 June 2026
What was left
€ 20 k ▼ 91%
Money in the bank
€ 178 k ▼ 98%
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Management
The stake of FAMCOO INVEST comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
What's Cooking GroupThe shares are held by Stichting Coovan (66.3%) and FAMCOO INVEST (43.7%). 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
Also active at: Colmar, B - STEEL, C.S.M., VICTOR BUYCK STEEL CONSTRUCTION, GROVEN+PORTAL, GROVEN +
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, IMSTO, What’s Cooking Veurne, What’s Cooking Marche-en-Famenne, What’s Cooking Wanze, What’s Cooking Savoury Belgium +2 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%
43.7%
Participations
Establishments
Establishment units
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
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 25 Sept 2025
- Contact
- whatscooking.group [email protected]
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