Financials
Financial year 2025
CHEF'S SECRET from Brugge, company number BE0424308979, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 397,030 after tax. For that financial year CHEF'S SECRET recorded revenue of € 9.6 million and equity of € 1.1 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 583,165 to € 397,030. 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 August 13, 2026.
€ 1.1 million
▲ 57% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 397,030
▼ 32% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 189,924
▼ 66% 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 € 1.1 million.
People and assets in 2025
12.8
▲ 2.7 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 967,624
▲ 67% vs 2024
€ 75,600 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.
€ 56,491
▼ 37% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 374,560
▼ 25% vs 2024
€ 131,154 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 3 years.
€ 383,196
▲ 1% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 17 days on average.
€ 243,823
▲ 46% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | - | - | - | € 9,567,845 | |
| Gross margin | € 1,521,092 | € 1,521,436 | € 1,473,403 | - | |
| Profit after taxes | € 614,448 | € 588,640 | € 583,165 | € 397,030 | ▼ 32% |
| Equity | € 116,373 | € 116,373 | € 699,537 | € 1,096,567 | ▲ 57% |
| Total debts | € 1,840,952 | € 2,060,382 | € 1,248,933 | € 1,006,472 | ▼ 19% |
| Cash | € 657,502 | € 698,356 | € 558,576 | € 189,924 | ▼ 66% |
| Land & buildings | € 78,573 | € 68,934 | € 59,295 | € 49,656 | ▼ 16% |
| Retained profit | € 91,373 | € 91,373 | € 674,537 | € 1,071,567 | ▲ 59% |
| Dividend | € 614,448 | € 588,640 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Bank debt | € 299,966 | € 870,683 | € 500,243 | € 374,560 | ▼ 25% |
| Balance sheet total | € 1,957,325 | € 2,176,755 | € 1,948,470 | € 2,103,039 | ▲ 8% |
| Employees (FTE) | 12.9 | 11.8 | 10.1 | 12.8 | ▲ 2.7 |
By revenue, CHEF'S SECRET ranks 7th of 8 companies with main activity “Groothandel in vis en schaal- en weekdieren” in West Flanders that publish figures (fiscal year 2025).
Key figures of CHEF'S SECRET, 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.
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What happened to CHEF'S SECRET?
What happened at CHEF'S SECRET in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 397,030 (▼ 32% vs 2024). filed late Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Brugge. KBO
- Horagro BV became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Brugge. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 614,448 profit in 2022 to € 397,030 profit in 2025.
Paid € 749,677 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 614,448 profit.
On average € 145,900 of value added per employee in 2024.
Management
Behind CHEF'S SECRET is Horagro BV. The shares are held by @fish holding.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Roderik D'Hoore
Also active at: Z.B. CENTRALE BRUGGE, Thirion, R.W.M., @fish holding, HORECA TOTAAL ANTWERPEN, 22, R.W.M. INVEST, HORECA TOTAAL OOSTENDE
since 2024
Shareholders
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Sint-Pietersgroenestraat 8-10
8000 Brugge
Kattegatstraat 205
8380 Brugge
Active since 26 July 1983
Groenlandstraat 17
8380 Brugge
Active since 3 June 2025
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 7 companies are registered at this address.
All companies at this address →HUGO'S FOOD SERVICE
€ 78,727 gross margin · 2025
R.W.M. same network
€ 5.4 million revenue · 2025
@fish holding same network
22 same network
Horagro same network
€ 580,000 revenue · 2025
+2 more
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
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Details
- Company number
- 0424.308.979
- VAT number
- BE 0424.308.979
- Registered office
- Sint-Pietersgroenestraat 8-10, 8000 Brugge
- Names & denominations
- CHEF'S SECRET
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 1 March 1983
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 21 Jan 2026
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