Warning lights
Signals from the annual accounts, the CBE and the Official Gazette, each with its threshold and source. No score, no verdict.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 10.5 to 0.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Houtzagerij en Houthandel Pieter Van Mechgelen from Arendonk, company number BE0423468643, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 10,750 after tax. For that financial year Houtzagerij en Houthandel Pieter Van Mechgelen recorded a gross margin of € 712,481 and equity of € 3.7 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 22,455 to € 10,750. 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 June 8, 2026.
€ 3.7 million
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 10,750
▼ 52% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 26,078
▼ 82% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Stays in the company
No dividend for 2025. Retained profit grew to € 3.7 million.
People and assets in 2025
0
▼ 9.8 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 540,467
▼ 10% vs 2024
Payroll staff only. What the director pays themselves is already netted into the gross margin and is not shown separately in the accounts.
€ 48,864
▼ 44% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 238,209
▼ 31% vs 2024
€ 114,506 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 2 years.
€ 336,477
▲ 97% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 81,206
▲ 5% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 798,611 | € 726,725 | € 766,106 | € 712,481 | ▼ 7% |
| Profit after taxes | € 162,648 | € 32,269 | € 22,455 | € 10,750 | ▼ 52% |
| Equity | € 3,645,381 | € 3,677,650 | € 3,700,105 | € 3,710,855 | |
| Total debts | € 1,636,691 | € 1,536,417 | € 1,469,641 | € 1,497,117 | ▲ 2% |
| Cash | € 753,069 | € 561,249 | € 142,146 | € 26,078 | ▼ 82% |
| Land & buildings | € 76,844 | € 106,628 | € 104,562 | € 118,605 | ▲ 13% |
| Retained profit | € 3,626,781 | € 3,659,050 | € 3,681,505 | € 3,692,255 | |
| Bank debt | € 387,287 | € 451,259 | € 345,665 | € 238,209 | ▼ 31% |
| Balance sheet total | € 5,283,664 | € 5,214,863 | € 5,169,747 | € 5,207,971 | ▲ 1% |
| Employees (FTE) | 10.6 | 10.5 | 9.8 | 0 | ▼ 9.8 |
Key figures of Houtzagerij en Houthandel Pieter Van Mechgelen, 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 Houtzagerij en Houthandel Pieter Van Mechgelen?
What happened at Houtzagerij en Houthandel Pieter Van Mechgelen in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 10,750 (▼ 52% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- WAMPENBERG BV became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Arendonk. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 162,648 profit in 2022 to € 10,750 profit in 2025.
Paid € 62,957 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 162,648 profit.
On average € 78,200 of value added per employee in 2024.
Management
The stake of WAMPENBERG comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
Houtzagerij en Houthandel Pieter Van MechgelenBehind Houtzagerij en Houthandel Pieter Van Mechgelen are Jan Van Mechgelen-Claesen, Ann Van Mechgelen-Claessen and WAMPENBERG BV. The shares are held by WAMPENBERG (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Pieter Van Mechgelen-Claessen
since 2007
Shareholders
100%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Wampenberg 72
2370 Arendonk
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 1 companies are registered at this address.
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Website
Technologies
Hosting & Email
Email provider
Microsoft 365
Hosting
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Website info
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Security
Details
- Company number
- 0423.468.643
- VAT number
- BE 0423.468.643
- Registered office
- Wampenberg 72, 2370 Arendonk
- Names & denominations
- Houtzagerij en Houthandel Pieter Van Mechgelen
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 23 December 1982
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 31 Dec 2025
- Contact
- houthandelvanmechgelen.be
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