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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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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 39.6 to 31.7.
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Figures corrected NBB
Corrected annual account filed for 2025.
Financials
Financial year 2025
HUYGHE-BROUWERIJ van MELLE from Merelbeke-Melle, company number BE0427403279, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 3.1 million after tax. For that financial year HUYGHE-BROUWERIJ van MELLE recorded revenue of € 24.6 million and equity of € 33 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 3.3 million to € 3.1 million. 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 September 10, 2026.
€ 33 million
▲ 10% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 3.1 million
▼ 7% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 2 million
▲ 238% 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 € 32.5 million.
People and assets in 2025
31.7
▼ 2 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 2.3 million
▲ 5% vs 2024
€ 73,200 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.
€ 49,981
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 976,858
▼ 12% vs 2024
€ 136,700 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 7 years.
€ 365,654
▲ 206% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 441,932
▲ 8% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 30,738,455 | € 23,882,640 | € 25,281,310 | € 24,607,130 | ▼ 3% |
| Gross margin | € 11,537,045 | € 8,052,673 | € 9,879,462 | € 10,044,479 | ▲ 2% |
| Profit after taxes | € 4,571,933 | € 1,689,826 | € 3,345,032 | € 3,114,565 | ▼ 7% |
| Equity | € 25,096,528 | € 26,786,354 | € 29,881,386 | € 32,995,951 | ▲ 10% |
| Total debts | € 9,597,543 | € 9,029,538 | € 8,656,652 | € 8,555,032 | ▼ 1% |
| Cash | € 9,214,614 | € 276,199 | € 596,230 | € 2,012,934 | ▲ 238% |
| Land & buildings | € 776,190 | € 1,721,581 | € 1,929,617 | € 2,800,110 | ▲ 45% |
| Retained profit | € 24,636,175 | € 26,326,000 | € 29,421,032 | € 32,535,598 | ▲ 11% |
| Dividend | € 1,000,000 | € 0 | € 250,000 | € 0 | ▼ 100% |
| Bank debt | € 1,381,095 | € 1,246,315 | € 1,111,008 | € 976,858 | ▼ 12% |
| Balance sheet total | € 34,694,071 | € 35,815,893 | € 38,538,038 | € 41,550,984 | ▲ 8% |
| Employees (FTE) | 39 | 39.6 | 33.7 | 31.7 | ▼ 2 |
Key figures of HUYGHE-BROUWERIJ van MELLE, 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 HUYGHE-BROUWERIJ van MELLE?
What happened at HUYGHE-BROUWERIJ van MELLE in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Jean De Laet stepped down as director. NBB
- Alain De Laet stepped down as director. NBB
- Alexandre De Laet stepped down as director. NBB
- Corrected annual accounts filed for financial year 2025. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Jean De Laet became a director. NBB
- Alain De Laet became a director. NBB
- Alexandre De Laet became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Gent. KBO
In short
From € 4.6 million profit in 2022 to € 3.1 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 4.2 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 4.6 million profit.
On average € 316,900 of value added per employee in 2025.
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De Lijn 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025
filed on 8 June 2026
What was left
€ 20 k ▼ 91%
Money in the bank
€ 178 k ▼ 98%
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Management
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Jean De Laet
Director
Also active at: HET ANKER, BROUWERIJ L. HUYGHE, GOLDEN KENIA - IMMO, MELL'S DRINKS - IMMO, DE GUSTIBUS
since 2025 · until 2031
Alain De Laet
Managing director
Also active at: HET ANKER, BROUWERIJ L. HUYGHE, GOLDEN KENIA - IMMO, MELL'S DRINKS - IMMO, IMMO BACKES, Brouwerij Den Appel, Habbekrats, vormingsdienst voor randgroepjongeren, RICAREL +4 more
since 2025 · until 2031
since 2025 · until 2031
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Brusselsesteenweg 282
9090 Merelbeke-Melle
Ten Bogaerdelaan(Kok) 10
8670 Koksijde
Active since 1 October 2020
Botermarkt 5
9000 Gent
Active since 1 September 2022
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 6 companies are registered at this address.
All companies at this address →BROUWERIJ L. HUYGHE same network
€ 43.2 million revenue · 2025
GOLDEN KENIA - IMMO same network
€ 1.2 million gross margin · 2025
MELL'S DRINKS - IMMO same network
€ 2.1 million gross margin · 2025
Brouwerij Den Appel same network
€ 53,208 gross margin · 2025
CONFRERIE VAN DE ROZE OLIFANT VAN MELLE
+1 more
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0427.403.279
- VAT number
- BE 0427.403.279
- Registered office
- Brusselsesteenweg 282, 9090 Merelbeke-Melle
- Names & denominations
- HUYGHE-BROUWERIJ van MELLE
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 24 June 1985
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 2 Jan 2026
- Activities · NACE
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