Arte is a wholesaler in Zonhoven. Public Limited, started on 2 September 1981, 1 establishment.

What is the address of Arte?

The registered office of Arte is located at Senator A. Jeurissenlaan 1210, 3520 Zonhoven.

Is Arte still active?

Yes. According to the CBE (29 October 2026) Arte is active, legal situation “Normale toestand”, started on 2 September 1981.

Is Arte registered on Peppol?

Yes, Arte is registered on the Peppol network with ID 0208:0421929907.

What is the enterprise number of Arte?

The enterprise number of Arte is BE0421929907.

When was Arte founded?

Arte was founded on 2 September 1981.

Who are the directors of Arte?

According to the 2025 annual accounts, the directors of Arte are: PHILIPPE DESART, STEVEN DESART, MURCO NV..

Is Arte a reliable company?

Databakkes does not pass judgement; this is what the sources say: Active according to the CBE since 2 September 1981; 5 annual accounts filed, latest fiscal year 2025; 3 directors known from the annual account.

How much profit did Arte make in 2025?

Arte posted a profit after taxes of € 11,013,780 in financial year 2025.

What is the revenue of Arte?

In its most recent annual accounts (2025), Arte reported revenue of € 71,932,674.

How much does an employee at Arte earn?

The average wage cost per full-time employee at Arte was € 83,500 in 2025: staff costs of € 10.7 million for 127.6 FTE, according to the annual account at the National Bank. That is the employer's cost, not net pay.

How many employees does Arte have?

According to the 2025 annual accounts, Arte has 127.6 full-time equivalents (FTE).

Arte (Public Limited) - Zonhoven - BE0421929907

Dossier Arte, printed on 29 October 2026 from databakkes.be/en/0421929907/arte. Sources: CBE, National Bank of Belgium, Belgian Official Gazette.

Financials

Financial year 2025

Arte from Zonhoven, company number BE0421929907, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 11 million after tax. For that financial year Arte recorded revenue of € 71.9 million and equity of € 28.9 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 12 million to € 11 million. The company is profitable. 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 7, 2026.

What it is worth Growing

€ 28.9 million

▲ 15% vs 2024

Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.

Profit Healthy

€ 11 million

▼ 8% vs 2024

Profit after tax over the fiscal year.

Cash in the bank

€ 10.8 million

▼ 10% vs 2024

Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.

Where the profit goes Pays out

€ 7 million paid out

64 % of the profit went to the shareholders, mostly to MURCO NV. (100 % of the shares). That is where the money ends up.

People and assets in 2025

Full-time equivalents

127.6

▲ 11.5 vs 2024

Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.

Wage cost Staff costs are payroll only. Director pay sits with services and miscellaneous goods: € 21.1 million in 2025, together with rent, insurance, accountants and other services. The accounts do not split that further.

€ 10.7 million

▲ 10% vs 2024

€ 83,500 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.

Vehicles and equipment

€ 807,780

▼ 8% vs 2024

Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.

Debts at end 2025

Bank debt ≈ 2 years to go The accounts give the long-term loan and the part due within the year. The remainder divided by that part is the number of years at an equal pace; a new loan or early repayment changes it.

€ 762,608

▼ 28% vs 2024

€ 306,655 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 2 years.

Owed to suppliers

€ 8.5 million

▲ 48% vs 2024

Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 61 days on average.

Taxes and wages

€ 959,754

▲ 2% vs 2024

Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.

Key figures per fiscal year Download key figures (CSV)
	2022	2023	2024	2025	Change 2024 → 2025
Revenue	€ 56,219,590 Revenue 2022: € 56,219,590 First fiscal year in the series	€ 61,020,112 Revenue 2023: € 61,020,112 ▲ 9% vs 2022 (€ 56,219,590) Favourable step	€ 64,876,676 Revenue 2024: € 64,876,676 ▲ 6% vs 2023 (€ 61,020,112) Favourable step	€ 71,932,674 Revenue 2025: € 71,932,674 ▲ 11% vs 2024 (€ 64,876,676) Favourable step	▲ 11%
Profit after taxes	€ 8,870,701 Profit after taxes 2022: € 8,870,701 First fiscal year in the series	€ 9,368,048 Profit after taxes 2023: € 9,368,048 ▲ 6% vs 2022 (€ 8,870,701) Favourable step	€ 11,961,995 Profit after taxes 2024: € 11,961,995 ▲ 28% vs 2023 (€ 9,368,048) Favourable step	€ 11,013,780 Profit after taxes 2025: € 11,013,780 ▼ 8% vs 2024 (€ 11,961,995) Unfavourable step	▼ 8%
Equity	€ 19,975,957 Equity 2022: € 19,975,957 First fiscal year in the series	€ 20,209,070 Equity 2023: € 20,209,070 ▲ 1% vs 2022 (€ 19,975,957) Favourable step	€ 25,022,504 Equity 2024: € 25,022,504 ▲ 24% vs 2023 (€ 20,209,070) Favourable step	€ 28,879,526 Equity 2025: € 28,879,526 ▲ 15% vs 2024 (€ 25,022,504) Favourable step	▲ 15%
Total debts	€ 14,532,229 Total debts 2022: € 14,532,229 First fiscal year in the series	€ 17,458,649 Total debts 2023: € 17,458,649 ▲ 20% vs 2022 (€ 14,532,229) Unfavourable step	€ 17,310,990 Total debts 2024: € 17,310,990 ▼ 1% vs 2023 (€ 17,458,649) Favourable step	€ 20,086,171 Total debts 2025: € 20,086,171 ▲ 16% vs 2024 (€ 17,310,990) Unfavourable step	▲ 16%
Cash	€ 11,622,612 Cash 2022: € 11,622,612 First fiscal year in the series	€ 11,318,680 Cash 2023: € 11,318,680 ▼ 3% vs 2022 (€ 11,622,612) Unfavourable step	€ 11,993,243 Cash 2024: € 11,993,243 ▲ 6% vs 2023 (€ 11,318,680) Favourable step	€ 10,753,974 Cash 2025: € 10,753,974 ▼ 10% vs 2024 (€ 11,993,243) Unfavourable step	▼ 10%
Retained profit	€ 19,690,957 Retained profit 2022: € 19,690,957 First fiscal year in the series	€ 19,924,070 Retained profit 2023: € 19,924,070 ▲ 1% vs 2022 (€ 19,690,957) Favourable step	€ 24,737,504 Retained profit 2024: € 24,737,504 ▲ 24% vs 2023 (€ 19,924,070) Favourable step	€ 28,594,526 Retained profit 2025: € 28,594,526 ▲ 16% vs 2024 (€ 24,737,504) Favourable step	▲ 16%
Dividend	€ 7,000,000 Dividend 2022: € 7,000,000 First fiscal year in the series	€ 9,000,000 Dividend 2023: € 9,000,000 ▲ 29% vs 2022 (€ 7,000,000) Unchanged	€ 7,000,000 Dividend 2024: € 7,000,000 ▼ 22% vs 2023 (€ 9,000,000) Unchanged	€ 7,000,000 Dividend 2025: € 7,000,000 Unchanged (€ 7,000,000) Unchanged
Bank debt	€ 0 Bank debt 2022: € 0 First fiscal year in the series	€ 791,694 Bank debt 2023: € 791,694 Unchanged (€ 0) Unfavourable step	€ 1,057,244 Bank debt 2024: € 1,057,244 ▲ 34% vs 2023 (€ 791,694) Unfavourable step	€ 762,608 Bank debt 2025: € 762,608 ▼ 28% vs 2024 (€ 1,057,244) Favourable step	▼ 28%
Balance sheet total	€ 34,508,186 Balance sheet total 2022: € 34,508,186 First fiscal year in the series	€ 37,667,719 Balance sheet total 2023: € 37,667,719 ▲ 9% vs 2022 (€ 34,508,186) Unchanged	€ 42,333,494 Balance sheet total 2024: € 42,333,494 ▲ 12% vs 2023 (€ 37,667,719) Unchanged	€ 48,965,697 Balance sheet total 2025: € 48,965,697 ▲ 16% vs 2024 (€ 42,333,494) Unchanged	▲ 16%
Employees (FTE)	99.1 Employees (FTE) 2022: 99.1 First fiscal year in the series	107.4 Employees (FTE) 2023: 107.4 ▲ 8.3 vs 2022 (99.1) Unchanged	116.1 Employees (FTE) 2024: 116.1 ▲ 8.7 vs 2023 (107.4) Unchanged	127.6 Employees (FTE) 2025: 127.6 ▲ 11.5 vs 2024 (116.1) Unchanged	▲ 11.5

Key figures of Arte, 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 Arte?

What happened at Arte in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:

2027 PHILIPPE DESART stepped down as director. NBB
2027 STEVEN DESART stepped down as director. NBB
Jul 7, 2026 New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 11 million (▼ 8% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
2026 MURCO NV. stepped down as director. NBB
2024 PHILIPPE DESART became a director. NBB
2024 STEVEN DESART became a director. NBB
2023 MURCO NV. became a director. NBB
Dec 1, 1981 New establishment in Zonhoven. KBO

In short

From € 8.9 million profit in 2022 to € 11 million profit in 2025.

Paid € 11.9 million in corporate taxes since 2022.

Best year ever: 2024, with € 12 million profit.

Paid out € 30 million in dividends to the owners in total.

Original PDFs at the National Bank ↗

Management

MURCO NV. 100%

Arte

ARTE INTERIOR FURNISHINGS LTD. 100%

ARTE USA INC. 100%

ARTE INTERIOR FURNISHINGS SPAIN SL. 100%

ARTE INTERIOR FURNISHINGS SINGAPORE PTE LTD. 100%

The shares are held by MURCO NV. (100%). It owns 100% of ARTE INTERIOR FURNISHINGS LTD., 100% of ARTE USA INC., 100% of ARTE INTERIOR FURNISHINGS SPAIN SL., 100% of ARTE INTERIOR FURNISHINGS SINGAPORE PTE LTD. and 100% of Arte France Sarl. itself.

Directors

According to the 2025 annual accounts

PHILIPPE DESART

Managing director

Owns 50% via MURCO NV.

Also active at: NOSTER, MBB7 Capital Invest, MURCO NV

since 2024 · until 2027

STEVEN DESART

Managing director

Owns 50% via MURCO NV.

Also active at: NOSTER, MBB7 Capital Invest, MURCO NV

since 2024 · until 2027

MURCO NV.

Chairman of the board · represented by HANS WILMOTS

Also active at: NOSTER

since 2023 · until 2026

Shareholders

MURCO NV. · holding of STEVEN DESART

100%

Participations

ARTE INTERIOR FURNISHINGS LTD.

100%

ARTE USA INC.

100%

ARTE INTERIOR FURNISHINGS SPAIN SL.

100%

ARTE INTERIOR FURNISHINGS SINGAPORE PTE LTD.

100%

Arte France Sarl.

100%

Establishments

Establishment units

Physical locations of this company

Registered office

Senator A. Jeurissenlaan 1210

3520 Zonhoven

Who else lives here?

A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 4 companies are registered at this address.

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NOSTER same network

€ 933,973 revenue · 2025

ARTE GROEP

MURCO NV same network

€ 2.2 million revenue · 2025

MAESTRIA

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Details

Company number

0421.929.907

VAT number

BE 0421.929.907

Registered office

Senator A. Jeurissenlaan 1210, 3520 Zonhoven

Names & denominations

Arte

Enterprise type

Rechtspersoon

Legal form

Public limited company

Legal situation

Normale toestand

Start date

2 September 1981

Peppol

Active · Active since 1 Jan 2001

Activities · NACE

Groothandel in behang, verf en woningtextiel

Groothandel in behang en onderhoudsproducten

Vervaardiging van behangpapier

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