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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 12.6 to 0.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Paepens from Ninove, company number BE0427801870, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -90,782 after tax. For that financial year Paepens recorded a gross margin of € -237,626 and equity of € 895,975. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -1.1 million to € -90,782. The company made a loss. The company holds a healthy buffer. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on July 2, 2026.
€ 895,975
▼ 40% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -90,782
▲ 92 % less loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 668,241
▲ 29% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 742,112.
People and assets in 2025
0
▼ 10.3 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1,497
▼ € 771,980 vs 2024
Payroll staff only. What the director pays themselves is already netted into the gross margin and is not shown separately in the accounts.
Debts at end 2025
None
No bank loans on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 8,904
▼ 93% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 6,059
▼ 85% vs 2024
Corporate tax and VAT still to pay. No wage debt: nothing outstanding to staff or social security.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 1,431,054 | € 1,345,792 | € -210,691 | € -237,626 | ▼ € 26,936 |
| Profit after taxes | € 273,236 | € 5,244 | € -1,071,836 | € -90,782 | ▲ € 981,054 |
| Equity | € 5,953,350 | € 5,958,594 | € 1,486,757 | € 895,975 | ▼ 40% |
| Total debts | € 678,085 | € 772,034 | € 162,799 | € 14,964 | ▼ 91% |
| Cash | € 304,269 | € 640,274 | € 517,373 | € 668,241 | ▲ 29% |
| Retained profit | € 5,799,488 | € 5,804,731 | € 1,332,895 | € 742,112 | ▼ 44% |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 0 | € 3,400,000 | € 500,000 | ▼ 85% |
| Bank debt | € 0 | € 160,253 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Balance sheet total | € 6,631,435 | € 6,730,628 | € 1,649,556 | € 910,938 | ▼ 45% |
| Employees (FTE) | 12.4 | 12.6 | 10.3 | 0 | ▼ 10.3 |
Key figures of Paepens, 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 Paepens?
What happened at Paepens in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Marianne Paepens stepped down as director. NBB
- Marc Paepens stepped down as director. NBB
- Michaël Paepens stepped down as director. NBB
- Alain Paepens stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 90,782. Source: NBB ↗
- Marianne Paepens became a director. NBB
- Alain Paepens became a director. NBB
- Marc Paepens became a director. NBB
In short
From € 273,236 profit in 2022 to € 90,782 loss in 2025.
Paid € 181,073 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 273,236 profit.
On average € 106,800 of value added per employee in 2023.
Management
The stake of JAGHI comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
PaepensThe shares are held by JAGHI (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Shareholders
100%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Armand De Riemaeckerstraat 3 box 2
9400 Ninove
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.
Details
- Company number
- 0427.801.870
- VAT number
- BE 0427.801.870
- Registered office
- Armand De Riemaeckerstraat 3 bus 2, 9400 Ninove
- Names & denominations
- Paepens
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 15 October 1985
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