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Financials
Financial year 2025
Agricultural Trading Agency International from Gent, company number BE0423339276, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 598,434 after tax. For that financial year Agricultural Trading Agency International recorded a gross margin of € 774,965 and equity of € 2.2 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 1 million to € 598,434. 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 28, 2026.
€ 2.2 million
▲ 37% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 598,434
▼ 42% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
Stays in the company
No dividend for 2025. Retained profit grew to € 1.6 million.
Debts at end 2025
€ 8,068
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 311,379
▲ 108% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 18,393
Corporate tax and VAT still to pay. No wage debt: nothing outstanding to staff or social security.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 1,199,051 | € 1,264,775 | € 1,227,588 | € 774,965 | ▼ 37% |
| Profit after taxes | € 891,741 | € 955,981 | € 1,025,433 | € 598,434 | ▼ 42% |
| Equity | € 1,620,927 | € 2,576,908 | € 1,602,341 | € 2,200,774 | ▲ 37% |
| Total debts | € 3,329,200 | € 3,480,004 | € 2,151,108 | € 1,339,440 | ▼ 38% |
| Cash | € 3,743,416 | € 1,009,095 | € 380,695 | - | |
| Retained profit | € 1,001,193 | € 1,957,174 | € 982,607 | € 1,581,041 | ▲ 61% |
| Dividend | € 3,000,000 | € 0 | € 2,000,000 | € 0 | ▼ 100% |
| Bank debt | € 0 | € 0 | € 0 | € 8,068 | |
| Balance sheet total | € 4,950,127 | € 6,056,912 | € 3,753,449 | € 3,540,214 | ▼ 6% |
Key figures of Agricultural Trading Agency International, 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 Agricultural Trading Agency International?
What happened at Agricultural Trading Agency International in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Molens Sint Martinus NV stepped down as director. NBB
- Ecosearch BV stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 598,434 (▼ 42% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Molens Sint Martinus NV became a director. NBB
- Ecosearch BV became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Gent. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 891,741 profit in 2022 to € 598,434 profit in 2025.
Paid € 1.2 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 1 million profit.
Paid out € 5 million in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
The stake of ECOSEARCH, MOLENS SINT MARTINUS - MOULINS SINT MARTIN comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
Agricultural Trading Agency InternationalThe shares are held by ECOSEARCH (50%) and MOLENS SINT MARTINUS - MOULINS SINT MARTIN (50%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Managing director · represented by Yves Bienfet
Also active at: GHENT TRANSPORT AND STORAGE, NEGOTIE en VALORISATIE van MATERIALEN, MILLS & MOORE
since 2025 · until 2027
Managing director · represented by Michel Vande Voorde
Also active at: GHENT TRANSPORT AND STORAGE, NEGOTIE en VALORISATIE van MATERIALEN
since 2025 · until 2027
Shareholders
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Christoffel Columbuslaan 35
9042 Gent
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 10 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0423.339.276
- VAT number
- BE 0423.339.276
- Registered office
- Christoffel Columbuslaan 35, 9042 Gent
- Names & denominations
- Agricultural Trading Agency International · A.T.A. International
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 16 November 1982
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 20 Nov 2025
- Activities · NACE
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