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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 35 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
HESBAYEFROST from Geer, company number BE0427405457, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 4.1 million after tax. For that financial year HESBAYEFROST recorded revenue of € 134.4 million and equity of € 32.9 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 13.6 million to € 4.1 million. The company is profitable. The buffer is growing. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on December 18, 2025.
€ 32.9 million
▲ 14% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 4.1 million
▼ 70% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 63,224
▲ 112% 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 € 30.7 million.
People and assets in 2025
342.1
▲ 3.8 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 22.7 million
▲ 5% vs 2024
€ 66,400 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.
€ 615,820
▲ 25% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 33.1 million
▲ 2% vs 2024
€ 1.7 million is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 2 years.
€ 31 million
▲ 67% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 113 days on average.
€ 4.4 million
▲ 6% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 103,899,881 | € 130,002,286 | € 143,789,334 | € 134,414,130 | ▼ 7% |
| Profit after taxes | € 1,728,723 | € 11,294,606 | € 13,613,674 | € 4,094,999 | ▼ 70% |
| Equity | € 15,950,294 | € 23,244,899 | € 28,854,965 | € 32,949,964 | ▲ 14% |
| Total debts | € 59,406,753 | € 52,937,861 | € 55,190,929 | € 69,320,540 | ▲ 26% |
| Cash | € 6,643 | € 50,314 | € 29,819 | € 63,224 | ▲ 112% |
| Land & buildings | € 4,169,530 | € 3,851,385 | € 3,898,855 | € 4,265,870 | ▲ 9% |
| Retained profit | € 13,740,294 | € 21,034,899 | € 26,644,965 | € 30,739,964 | ▲ 15% |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 4,000,000 | € 8,000,000 | € 0 | ▼ 100% |
| Bank debt | € 36,748,572 | € 28,514,286 | € 32,480,000 | € 33,143,572 | ▲ 2% |
| Balance sheet total | € 75,457,047 | € 77,072,760 | € 84,595,894 | € 103,570,504 | ▲ 22% |
| Employees (FTE) | 336.8 | 327.9 | 338.3 | 342.1 | ▲ 3.8 |
Key figures of HESBAYEFROST, 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 HESBAYEFROST?
What happened at HESBAYEFROST in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- VIMICON SRL stepped down as director. NBB
- SASTRACO BV stepped down as director. NBB
- CD-X BV stepped down as director. NBB
- CIBUS CONSULT BV stepped down as director. NBB
- VASTICOM BV stepped down as director. NBB
- SPINOLA BV stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 4.1 million (▼ 70% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- SASTRACO BV became a director. NBB
In short
From € 1.7 million profit in 2022 to € 4.1 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 11 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 13.6 million profit.
Paid out € 12 million in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
The stake of ARDO FOODS, Crop's Vegetables comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
HESBAYEFROSTThe shares are held by ARDO FOODS (50%) and Crop's Vegetables (50%). It owns 24.9% of APLIGEER and 24.8% of BIOGAS DEVELOPPEMENT itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Sabine SAGAERT
Also active at: LOTUS BAKERIES, ARDO, Van Genechten Packaging International, HESBAYE IMMO
since 2025 · until 2028
Director · represented by Carl Dewulf
Also active at: LVD COMPANY, CROP'S, SAEY, SIHOLD, LVD ROBOTIC SOLUTIONS, HESBAYE IMMO
since 2025 · until 2028
Director · represented by TIJL GOENS
Also active at: DUJARDIN FOODS, ARDO ARDOOIE, ARDO E. HASPESLAGH, ARDO ENERGY BELGIUM, HESBAYE ENERGIE, HESBAYE IMMO
since 2023 · until 2028
since 2025 · until 2028
Director · represented by Michel Delbaere
Also active at: CROP'S, Crop's Vegetables, Agri Po, HESBAYE ENERGIE, HESBAYE IMMO, CROP'S HOLDING
since 2023 · until 2026
Director · represented by JAN VANDER STICHELE
Also active at: LOTUS BAKERIES, STEENHOUT, BEAULIEU INTERNATIONAL GROUP, B.I.G COORDINATION CENTER, ARDO ENERGY, Vanéflon Holding, HESBAYE IMMO, DIGROM IMMO +2 more
since 2025 · until 2028
Shareholders
50%
Participations
24.9%
24.8%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Rue Emile Lejeune(GR) 20
4250 Geer
Who else lives here?
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Details
- Company number
- 0427.405.457
- VAT number
- BE 0427.405.457
- Registered office
- Rue Emile Lejeune(GR) 20, 4250 Geer
- Names & denominations
- HESBAYEFROST · S.B. FROST
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 29 May 1985
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 6 Mar 2026
- Activities · NACE
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