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Annual account missing NBB
Fiscal year 2024 was expected before 31 July 2025 and has not been filed.
Financials
Financial year 2023
MENKEN from Aartselaar, company number BE0421561802, closed financial year 2023 with a result of € 1.4 million after tax. For that financial year MENKEN recorded revenue of € 71.2 million and equity of € 14.6 million. Compared with financial year 2022, the result moved from € 933,168 to € 1.4 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 July 8, 2024.
€ 14.6 million
▲ 4% vs 2022
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 1.4 million
▲ 48% vs 2022
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 915,935
▼ 22% vs 2022
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 868,992 paid out
63 % of the profit went to the shareholders, mostly to FOOD CONSULTANCY INVEST (56 % of the shares). That is where the money ends up.
People and assets in 2023
47.6
▲ 3.7 vs 2022
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 4.9 million
▲ 9% vs 2022
€ 103,000 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.
€ 296,239
▲ 11% vs 2022
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2023
€ 8.5 million
▲ 42% vs 2022
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 1.1 million
▼ 6% vs 2022
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 6 days on average.
€ 638,510
▲ 128% vs 2022
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | Change 2022 → 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 47,850,749 | € 55,572,335 | € 71,166,896 | ▲ 28% |
| Profit after taxes | € 1,713,770 | € 933,168 | € 1,382,424 | ▲ 48% |
| Equity | € 13,868,741 | € 14,101,108 | € 14,614,540 | ▲ 4% |
| Total debts | € 11,158,625 | € 8,256,198 | € 11,109,076 | ▲ 35% |
| Cash | € 779,897 | € 1,171,526 | € 915,935 | ▼ 22% |
| Land & buildings | € 1,711,984 | € 1,700,344 | € 1,552,508 | ▼ 9% |
| Retained profit | € 13,748,741 | € 13,981,108 | € 14,494,540 | ▲ 4% |
| Dividend | € 897,024 | € 700,800 | € 868,992 | ▲ 24% |
| Bank debt | € 9,000,000 | € 6,000,000 | € 8,500,000 | ▲ 42% |
| Balance sheet total | € 25,426,329 | € 22,639,282 | € 25,949,549 | ▲ 15% |
| Employees (FTE) | 44.8 | 43.9 | 47.6 | ▲ 3.7 |
Key figures of MENKEN, fiscal years 2021 to 2023, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.The annual account for fiscal year 2024 has not been filed yet; it was expected before 31 July 2025.
What happened to MENKEN?
What happened at MENKEN in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Patrick Hens stepped down as director. NBB
- Didier Hens stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2023: profit of € 1.4 million (▲ 48% vs 2022). Source: NBB ↗
- Patrick Hens became a director. NBB
- Didier Hens became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Aartselaar. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 1.7 million profit in 2021 to € 1.4 million profit in 2023.
Paid € 1.5 million in corporate taxes since 2021.
Best year ever: 2021, with € 1.7 million profit.
Paid out € 2.5 million in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
The stake of FOOD CONSULTANCY INVEST, M.C. INVEST comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
MENKENThe shares are held by FOOD CONSULTANCY INVEST (56%) and M.C. INVEST.
Directors
According to the 2023 annual accounts
Patrick Hens
Director
Owns 28% via FOOD CONSULTANCY INVEST
Also active at: Duroc, Maspa, Ternesse Golf en Country Club, EURO-MAS, FOOD CONSULTANCY INVEST, M.C. INVEST, MARKELBACH & CORNE, EXOCET +2 more
since 2023 · until 2030
Didier Hens
Director
Owns 28% via FOOD CONSULTANCY INVEST
Also active at: Immobilière Heraklès, Maspa, FOOD CONSULTANCY INVEST, M.C. INVEST, Curbi Cubes
since 2023 · until 2030
Shareholders
FOOD CONSULTANCY INVEST · holding of Didier Hens
56%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Boomsesteenweg 38
2630 Aartselaar
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0421.561.802
- VAT number
- BE 0421.561.802
- Registered office
- Boomsesteenweg 38, 2630 Aartselaar
- Names & denominations
- MENKEN
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 18 May 1981
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 18 Feb 2026
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