Financials
Financial year 2025
Comité du lait from Herve, company number BE0429937652, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 31,183 after tax. For that financial year Comité du lait recorded a gross margin of € 3.4 million and equity of € 5.3 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 11,289 to € 31,183. 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 August 31, 2026.
€ 5.3 million
▲ 1% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 31,183
▲ 176% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 623,657
▲ 158% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
People and assets in 2025
36.4
▼ 1.6 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 2.6 million
▲ 1% vs 2024
€ 71,900 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.
€ 249,004
▲ 12% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
None
No bank loans on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 465,080
▲ 80% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 362,287
▲ 8% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 2,756,652 | € 3,117,767 | € 2,904,880 | € 3,377,500 | ▲ 16% |
| Profit after taxes | € -524,788 | € 8,054 | € 11,289 | € 31,183 | ▲ 176% |
| Equity | € 5,225,443 | € 5,233,497 | € 5,244,786 | € 5,275,969 | ▲ 1% |
| Total debts | € 858,290 | € 943,022 | € 929,421 | € 943,162 | ▲ 1% |
| Cash | € 611,774 | € 272,990 | € 241,631 | € 623,657 | ▲ 158% |
| Land & buildings | € 449,575 | € 382,505 | € 333,446 | € 302,086 | ▼ 9% |
| Retained profit | € 372,549 | € 380,603 | € 391,892 | € 423,075 | ▲ 8% |
| Balance sheet total | € 6,261,233 | € 6,529,019 | € 6,380,207 | € 6,219,131 | ▼ 3% |
| Employees (FTE) | 38 | 38 | 38 | 36.4 | ▼ 1.6 |
Key figures of Comité du lait, 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 Comité du lait?
What happened at Comité du lait in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- LAITERIE DES ARDENNES COOPERATIVES (LDA COOP) stepped down as director. NBB
- PASCAL PIRLOT stepped down as director. NBB
- CEDRIC VERMEIREN stepped down as director. NBB
- CHRISTIAN DIET stepped down as director. NBB
- ARLA FOODS BELGIEN stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 31,183 (▲ 176% vs 2024). filed late Source: NBB ↗
- LAITERIE DES ARDENNES COOPERATIVES (LDA COOP) became a director. NBB
- DANIEL ANNET stepped down as director. NBB
In short
From € 524,788 loss in 2022 to € 31,183 profit in 2025.
Paid € 55,582 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 31,183 profit.
On average € 92,800 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
DANIEL ANNET
Director
since 2020 · until 2026
RENE SCHOLZEN
Director
since 2021 · until 2025
LAITERIE DES ARDENNES COOPERATIVES (LDA COOP)
Director · represented by CHRISTIAN BAGUETTE, JEAN LIEBEN
since 2026 · until 2032
PASCAL PIRLOT
Director
since 2023 · until 2029
CEDRIC VERMEIREN
Director
since 2023 · until 2029
Director · represented by Sylvain VANDERHEYDEN, PATRICK DUIZINGS
since 2015 · until 2027
CHRISTIAN DIET
Chairman of the board
since 2016 · until 2028
Director · represented by ANDRE BLANJEAN
since 2020 · until 2026
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Rue de Herve 104
4651 Herve
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0429.937.652
- VAT number
- BE 0429.937.652
- Registered office
- Rue de Herve 104, 4651 Herve
- Names & denominations
- Comité du lait · CdL
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Non-profit association
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 3 December 1986
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 27 Mar 2026
- Activities · NACE
Overige technische testen en toetsen
Technische testen en analyses
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Speur- en ontwikkelingswerk op natuurwetenschappelijk gebied
Overig speur- en ontwikkelingswerk op natuurwetenschappelijk gebied