Financials
Financial year 2025
HOUBEN from Seraing, company number BE0422481124, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 308,247 after tax. For that financial year HOUBEN recorded revenue of € 14.2 million and equity of € 3 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -163,289 to € 308,247. 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 12, 2026.
€ 3 million
▲ 10% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 308,247
▲ still € 163,289 loss in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 340,882
▼ 14% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 30,000 paid out
10 % of the profit went to the shareholders, mostly to HOUBEN MALMEDY SA (100 % of the shares). That is where the money ends up.
People and assets in 2025
28.5
▼ 0.5 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 2.2 million
▲ 2% vs 2024
€ 77,000 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.
€ 286,666
▲ 60% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 737,572
▼ 2% vs 2024
€ 301,188 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 1 years.
€ 1.6 million
▼ 22% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 50 days on average.
€ 379,694
▲ 29% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 13,338,812 | € 12,601,011 | € 13,047,894 | € 14,229,745 | ▲ 9% |
| Profit after taxes | € 567,047 | € 184,410 | € -163,289 | € 308,247 | ▲ € 471,535 |
| Equity | € 2,754,553 | € 2,875,691 | € 2,709,131 | € 2,984,106 | ▲ 10% |
| Total debts | € 3,251,315 | € 3,161,022 | € 3,051,891 | € 2,766,950 | ▼ 9% |
| Cash | € 474,613 | € 324,126 | € 395,002 | € 340,882 | ▼ 14% |
| Land & buildings | € 223,093 | € 279,096 | € 246,741 | € 227,593 | ▼ 8% |
| Retained profit | € 2,617,456 | € 2,741,866 | € 2,578,577 | € 2,856,823 | ▲ 11% |
| Dividend | € 60,000 | € 60,000 | € 0 | € 30,000 | |
| Bank debt | € 743,953 | € 702,307 | € 753,159 | € 737,572 | ▼ 2% |
| Balance sheet total | € 6,005,868 | € 6,036,714 | € 5,761,022 | € 5,751,057 | |
| Employees (FTE) | 3,051 | 28.6 | 29 | 28.5 | ▼ 0.5 |
Key figures of HOUBEN, 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 HOUBEN?
What happened at HOUBEN in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Michel HOUBEN stepped down as director. NBB
- HOUBEN MALMEDY SA stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 308,247. Source: NBB ↗
- Michel HOUBEN became a director. NBB
- HOUBEN MALMEDY SA became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Liège. KBO
- New establishment in Seraing. KBO
- New establishment in Seraing. KBO
In short
From € 567,047 profit in 2022 to € 308,247 profit in 2025.
Paid € 416,793 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 567,047 profit.
Paid out € 150,000 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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NMBS 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left ▼ 80%
bpost 18 May 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left from loss to profit
Management
The shares are held by HOUBEN MALMEDY SA (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Michel HOUBEN
Director
since 2023 · until 2029
Managing director · represented by Laurent HOUBEN
since 2023 · until 2029
Shareholders
100%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Rue du Têris 65
4100 Seraing
Avenue Georges-Truffaut 52
4020 Liège
Active since 30 March 2015
Rue Biefnot 4
4100 Seraing
Active since 9 October 2013
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 2 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0422.481.124
- VAT number
- BE 0422.481.124
- Registered office
- Rue du Têris 65, 4100 Seraing
- Names & denominations
- HOUBEN
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 27 January 1982
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 20 Nov 2020
- Activities · NACE
Groothandel in bouwmaterialen, algemeen assortiment
Groothandel in verf, vernis en bouwmaterialen, inclusief sanitair
Groothandel in reinigingsmiddelen
Groothandel in behang en onderhoudsproducten