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Board fully replaced NBB
No director from three years ago is still active according to annual account 2025.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Herman Desserts from Oostende, company number BE0429880046, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 268,683 after tax. For that financial year Herman Desserts recorded a gross margin of € 1.7 million and equity of € 884,822. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 491,933 to € 268,683. The company is profitable. The buffer shrank hard: equity is 69 % below last year. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on June 16, 2026.
€ 884,822
▼ 69% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 268,683
▼ 45% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 841,499
▲ 24% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 2.2 million paid out
More than the year’s profit went to the shareholders; reserves fell.
People and assets in 2025
17.2
▲ 0.4 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 969,495
▲ 14% vs 2024
€ 56,400 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.
€ 613,478
▲ 147% vs 2024
Of which on lease € 605,609.
Debts at end 2025
€ 2.5 million
▲ € 2.2 million vs 2024
€ 303,789 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 8 years.
€ 1.2 million
▲ 54% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 144,036
▲ 17% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 1,505,483 | € 1,467,981 | € 1,814,885 | € 1,682,582 | ▼ 7% |
| Profit after taxes | € 270,617 | € 335,346 | € 491,933 | € 268,683 | ▼ 45% |
| Equity | € 2,486,808 | € 2,538,154 | € 2,816,140 | € 884,822 | ▼ 69% |
| Total debts | € 1,828,197 | € 1,995,538 | € 1,344,747 | € 4,617,010 | ▲ 243% |
| Cash | € 868,854 | € 851,355 | € 680,433 | € 841,499 | ▲ 24% |
| Land & buildings | € 784,611 | € 766,847 | € 746,508 | € 727,136 | ▼ 3% |
| Retained profit | € 2,468,208 | € 2,519,554 | € 2,797,540 | € 866,222 | ▼ 69% |
| Dividend | € 132,000 | € 284,000 | € 213,948 | € 2,200,000 | ▲ € 2 million |
| Bank debt | € 564,789 | € 385,666 | € 233,508 | € 2,473,475 | ▲ € 2.2 million |
| Balance sheet total | € 4,315,005 | € 4,533,693 | € 4,160,886 | € 5,501,833 | ▲ 32% |
| Employees (FTE) | 15 | 12.6 | 16.8 | 17.2 | ▲ 0.4 |
Key figures of Herman Desserts, 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 Herman Desserts?
What happened at Herman Desserts in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 268,683 (▼ 45% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Choco Loco Foods BV became a director. NBB
- Peter Denolf stepped down as director. NBB
- Inge Boedts became a director. NBB
- Romejo BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Peter Denolf became a director. NBB
- Romejo BV became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Oostende. KBO
In short
From € 270,617 profit in 2022 to € 268,683 profit in 2025.
Paid € 222,283 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 491,933 profit.
On average € 97,800 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
Behind Herman Desserts are Choco Loco Foods BV and Inge Boedts. Inge Boedts is also behind GROENDALE and CHOCO LOCO FOODS.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Peter Denolf
since 2025
since 2025
Director · represented by Herman Roobroeck
since 2015 · until 2025
Peter Denolf
Director
Also active at: IMSTO, EMPWR Nutrition Group, EMPWR, Groendale Invest, Milcobel, GROENDALE, CHOCO LOCO FOODS
since 2025 · until 2025
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Edward Vlietinckstraat 4A
8400 Oostende
Edward Vlietinckstraat 4 A
8400 Oostende
Active since 5 January 1987
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Website
Technologies
Hosting & Email
Email provider
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Features
Security
Details
- Company number
- 0429.880.046
- VAT number
- BE 0429.880.046
- Registered office
- Edward Vlietinckstraat 4A, 8400 Oostende
- Names & denominations
- Herman Desserts
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 20 November 1986
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 20 Oct 2026
- Contact
- hermandesserts.be
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