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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 4 to 2.8.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Demeester Metaaldesign from Kortrijk, company number BE0428269450, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 510,892 after tax. For that financial year Demeester Metaaldesign recorded a gross margin of € 770,711 and equity of € 6.4 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 470,163 to € 510,892. Profitable, and profit is growing. 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 March 30, 2026.
€ 6.4 million
▲ 4% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 510,892
▲ 9% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 1.2 million
▲ 32% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 240,000 paid out
47 % of the profit went to the shareholders, mostly to Vede Creations (50 % of the shares). That is where the money ends up.
People and assets in 2025
2.8
▼ 0.6 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 187,399
▼ 18% vs 2024
€ 66,900 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.
€ 65,594
▼ 32% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 1,639
▼ 82% vs 2024
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 160,076
▼ 65% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 54,931
▲ 74% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 774,006 | € 884,710 | € 763,108 | € 770,711 | ▲ 1% |
| Profit after taxes | € 485,616 | € 520,211 | € 470,163 | € 510,892 | ▲ 9% |
| Equity | € 5,435,294 | € 5,795,505 | € 6,085,667 | € 6,356,559 | ▲ 4% |
| Total debts | € 540,920 | € 460,655 | € 778,675 | € 514,615 | ▼ 34% |
| Cash | € 1,096,253 | € 1,072,883 | € 922,234 | € 1,215,059 | ▲ 32% |
| Land & buildings | - | - | - | € 847 | |
| Retained profit | € 5,373,294 | € 5,733,505 | € 6,023,667 | € 6,294,559 | ▲ 4% |
| Dividend | € 275,000 | € 160,000 | € 180,000 | € 240,000 | ▲ 33% |
| Bank debt | € 23,581 | € 16,400 | € 9,153 | € 1,639 | ▼ 82% |
| Balance sheet total | € 5,976,214 | € 6,256,160 | € 6,864,342 | € 6,871,174 | |
| Employees (FTE) | 4.1 | 4 | 3.4 | 2.8 | ▼ 0.6 |
Key figures of Demeester Metaaldesign, 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 April 2027.
What happened to Demeester Metaaldesign?
What happened at Demeester Metaaldesign in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 510,892 (▲ 9% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Kortrijk. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 485,616 profit in 2022 to € 510,892 profit in 2025.
Paid € 382,615 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 520,211 profit.
On average € 275,300 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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NMBS 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left ▼ 80%
bpost 18 May 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left from loss to profit
Management
The stake of Vede Creations, ARTE-META-TEC comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
Demeester MetaaldesignBehind Demeester Metaaldesign are Vede Creations BV and Arte-Meta-Tec NV. The shares are held by Vede Creations (50.4%) and ARTE-META-TEC (49.6%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Thomas Vercruysse
Shareholders
50.4%
49.6%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Vagevuurstraat(Mar) 49
8510 Kortrijk
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 2 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0428.269.450
- VAT number
- BE 0428.269.450
- Registered office
- Vagevuurstraat(Mar) 49, 8510 Kortrijk
- Names & denominations
- Demeester Metaaldesign
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 7 January 1986
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 1 Jan 2001
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