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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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Negative equity NBB
More debt than assets in 4 of the last 4 fiscal years.
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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 59 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 10.8 to 4.5.
Financials
Financial year 2025
DRANKENCENTRALE E. MAES from Dendermonde, company number BE0428349129, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 163,494 after tax. For that financial year DRANKENCENTRALE E. MAES recorded a gross margin of € 626,084 and equity of € -969. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 22,912 to € 163,494. Profitable, and profit is growing. More debts than assets. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on June 1, 2026.
€ -969
▲ € 43,494 vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 163,494
▲ € 140,582 vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 71,283
▼ 10% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 120,000 paid out
73 % of the profit went to the shareholders, the rest stayed in the company.
People and assets in 2025
4.5
▼ 2 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 297,345
▼ 23% vs 2024
€ 66,100 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.
€ 857
▼ 75% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 677,624
▲ € 522,787 vs 2024
€ 9,725 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 70 years.
€ 255,837
▼ 30% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 52,101
▲ 49% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 672,086 | € 687,070 | € 536,923 | € 626,084 | ▲ 17% |
| Profit after taxes | € 14,878 | € 11,946 | € 22,912 | € 163,494 | ▲ € 140,582 |
| Equity | € -79,322 | € -67,375 | € -44,463 | € -969 | ▲ € 43,494 |
| Total debts | € 1,875,813 | € 1,491,789 | € 1,305,169 | € 1,207,693 | ▼ 7% |
| Cash | € 90,577 | € 110,662 | € 79,546 | € 71,283 | ▼ 10% |
| Land & buildings | € 241,087 | € 208,211 | € 175,336 | € 142,460 | ▼ 19% |
| Retained profit | € -346,342 | € -334,395 | € -311,483 | € -267,989 | ▲ € 43,494 |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 0 | € 0 | € 120,000 | |
| Bank debt | € 364,041 | € 280,094 | € 154,837 | € 677,624 | ▲ € 522,787 |
| Balance sheet total | € 1,796,491 | € 1,424,414 | € 1,260,706 | € 1,206,724 | ▼ 4% |
| Employees (FTE) | 11.1 | 10.8 | 6.5 | 4.5 | ▼ 2 |
Key figures of DRANKENCENTRALE E. MAES, 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 DRANKENCENTRALE E. MAES?
What happened at DRANKENCENTRALE E. MAES in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 163,494 (▲ € 140,582 vs 2024). filed late Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Dendermonde. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 14,878 profit in 2022 to € 163,494 profit in 2025.
Paid € 6,100 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 163,494 profit.
On average € 139,100 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
Behind DRANKENCENTRALE E. MAES are COROSA CV and Bart Maes. COROSA CV is also behind Drankenhandel Van Nueten, BACCHUS, VERREYDT, WAASLAND DRINKS and DRANKENCENTRALE A. FREDERICKX. Bart Maes is also behind B.M. MANAGEMENT and BARELS.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Bart Maes
Also active at: Drankenhandel Van Nueten, BACCHUS, VERREYDT, WAASLAND DRINKS, DRANKENCENTRALE A. FREDERICKX, Bierhandel Sevens, DRANKEN HOUBEN, Bierhandel Prinzie +3 more
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Hoogveld 29
9200 Dendermonde
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
- 0428.349.129
- VAT number
- BE 0428.349.129
- Registered office
- Hoogveld 29, 9200 Dendermonde
- Names & denominations
- DRANKENCENTRALE E. MAES
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 27 January 1986
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 21 Oct 2026
- Contact
- drankenmaes.be
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