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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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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2024 and 2025.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 19.8 to 16.6.
Financials
Financial year 2025
B.K.S. from Thimister-Clermont, company number BE0424868017, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -115,103 after tax. For that financial year B.K.S. recorded a gross margin of € 1.6 million and equity of € 1.7 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -120,657 to € -115,103. The company made a loss. The buffer shrank hard: equity is 53 % below last year. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on January 28, 2026.
€ 1.7 million
▼ 53% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -115,103
▲ 5 % less loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 44,721
▼ 65% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -264,863.
People and assets in 2025
16.6
▼ 3.1 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.2 million
▼ 15% vs 2024
€ 71,500 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.
€ 591,394
▼ 36% vs 2024
Of which on lease € 533,051.
Debts at end 2025
€ 2.1 million
▼ 22% vs 2024
€ 566,734 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 4 years.
€ 511,391
▲ 16% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 79,587
▼ 28% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 1,774,268 | € 2,037,805 | € 1,583,119 | € 1,604,008 | ▲ 1% |
| Profit after taxes | € 15,035 | € 34,432 | € -120,657 | € -115,103 | ▲ € 5,555 |
| Equity | € 3,590,014 | € 3,610,155 | € 3,489,070 | € 1,653,954 | ▼ 53% |
| Total debts | € 2,633,271 | € 3,401,654 | € 3,258,372 | € 2,697,793 | ▼ 17% |
| Cash | € 220,706 | € 157,515 | € 126,900 | € 44,721 | ▼ 65% |
| Land & buildings | € 974,808 | € 1,009,099 | € 1,026,772 | € 939,552 | ▼ 8% |
| Retained profit | € -63,536 | € -29,103 | € -149,761 | € -264,863 | ▼ € 115,103 |
| Bank debt | € 2,105,529 | € 2,652,156 | € 2,686,700 | € 2,103,461 | ▼ 22% |
| Balance sheet total | € 6,326,967 | € 7,115,478 | € 6,851,096 | € 4,455,387 | ▼ 35% |
| Employees (FTE) | 21 | 19.8 | 19.7 | 16.6 | ▼ 3.1 |
Key figures of B.K.S., fiscal years 2022 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2026) expected before 30 January 2027.
What happened to B.K.S.?
What happened at B.K.S. in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- FINICO SRL stepped down as director. NBB
- FRANCOISE DE WAEL stepped down as director. NBB
- I.M.C. CONSULT SRL stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 115,103. Source: NBB ↗
- FINICO SRL became a director. NBB
- FRANCOISE DE WAEL became a director. NBB
- I.M.C. CONSULT SRL became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Thimister-Clermont. KBO
In short
From € 15,035 profit in 2022 to € 115,103 loss in 2025.
Paid € 4,747 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 34,432 profit.
On average € 96,600 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of Finico comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
B.K.S.The shares are held by Finico (6.2%). It owns 100% of BKS SARL, 100% of PT. BKS Indonesia, 49% of B.K.S. S.A. (Thailand) Co., Ltd. and 49% of B.K.S. S.A. Holding (Thailand) Co., Ltd. itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Nicolas Jacquemin
since 2025 · until 2031
FRANCOISE DE WAEL
Director
since 2025 · until 2031
Managing director · represented by PHILIPPE WILLEMS
since 2025 · until 2031
Shareholders
6.2%
Participations
BKS SARL
100%
PT. BKS Indonesia
100%
B.K.S. S.A. (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
49%
B.K.S. S.A. Holding (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
49%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Chemin de Xhénorie 1 box A
4890 Thimister-Clermont
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 3 companies are registered at this address.
All companies at this address →What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Website
Technologies
Hosting & Email
Email provider
Barracuda
Hosting
OVH, FR
DNS
OVH DNS
Domain
Domain
bks-knives.com
Registered
2014-10-08
Registrar
OVH sas
Expires
2027-10-08
Website info
Features
Security
Details
- Company number
- 0424.868.017
- VAT number
- BE 0424.868.017
- Registered office
- Chemin de Xhénorie 1 bus A, 4890 Thimister-Clermont
- Names & denominations
- B.K.S.
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 29 November 1983
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 21 Oct 2026
- Contact
- bks-knives.com
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