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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 32 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Matheusen-Backx from Essen, company number BE0425083593, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 6,606 after tax. For that financial year Matheusen-Backx recorded a gross margin of € 529,017 and equity of € 137,545. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -32,806 to € 6,606. Profitable, and profit is growing. The buffer is growing. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on January 22, 2026.
€ 137,545
▲ 5% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 6,606
▲ still € 32,806 loss in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 55,531
▼ 19% 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 € 62,545.
People and assets in 2025
5.4
▼ 0.1 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 401,446
▲ 2% vs 2024
€ 74,300 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.
€ 77,975
▼ 28% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 283,054
▼ 16% vs 2024
€ 54,752 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 5 years.
€ 298,051
▲ € 269,098 vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 13,350
▼ 29% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 659,506 | € 428,440 | € 461,646 | € 529,017 | ▲ 15% |
| Profit after taxes | € 257,425 | € -409 | € -32,806 | € 6,606 | ▲ € 39,412 |
| Equity | € 172,578 | € 163,745 | € 130,939 | € 137,545 | ▲ 5% |
| Total debts | € 435,824 | € 231,364 | € 385,756 | € 613,726 | ▲ 59% |
| Cash | € 315,175 | € 54,883 | € 68,712 | € 55,531 | ▼ 19% |
| Land & buildings | € 123,160 | € 103,022 | € 241,993 | € 527,223 | ▲ 118% |
| Retained profit | € 97,578 | € 88,745 | € 55,939 | € 62,545 | ▲ 12% |
| Dividend | € 337,000 | € 0 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Bank debt | € 128,817 | € 204,253 | € 337,971 | € 283,054 | ▼ 16% |
| Balance sheet total | € 609,848 | € 395,109 | € 516,695 | € 751,271 | ▲ 45% |
| Employees (FTE) | 5.4 | 5.6 | 5.5 | 5.4 | ▼ 0.1 |
Key figures of Matheusen-Backx, 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 Matheusen-Backx?
What happened at Matheusen-Backx in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 6,606. Source: NBB ↗
- CERTA BV became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Essen. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 257,425 profit in 2022 to € 6,606 profit in 2025.
Paid € 13,827 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 257,425 profit.
On average € 98,000 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
Behind Matheusen-Backx is CERTA BV.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Managing director · represented by Stijn Matheusen
since 2024
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Stationsstraat 53A
2910 Essen
Stationsstraat 53 box A
2910 Essen
Active since 7 July 1983
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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Details
- Company number
- 0425.083.593
- VAT number
- BE 0425.083.593
- Registered office
- Stationsstraat 53A, 2910 Essen
- Names & denominations
- Matheusen-Backx
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 7 July 1983
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 10 Jan 2025
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