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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 32.1 to 27.2.
Financials
Financial year 2025
ROPA from Zonnebeke, company number BE0430249240, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -276,003 after tax. For that financial year ROPA recorded a gross margin of € 1.8 million and equity of € 2 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 77,123 to € -276,003. 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 16, 2026.
€ 2 million
▼ 12% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -276,003
▼ still € 77,123 profit in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 336,991
▲ 49% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 2 million.
People and assets in 2025
27.2
▼ 2.6 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.7 million
€ 61,900 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.
€ 1,060
▼ 82% 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.
€ 490,805
▲ 8% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 150,268
▼ 12% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 2,429,456 | € 2,907,658 | € 2,151,952 | € 1,800,040 | ▼ 16% |
| Profit after taxes | € 351,925 | € 273,659 | € 77,123 | € -276,003 | ▼ € 353,125 |
| Equity | € 2,239,961 | € 2,239,961 | € 2,317,083 | € 2,041,081 | ▼ 12% |
| Total debts | € 2,498,169 | € 2,037,765 | € 1,863,381 | € 1,765,990 | ▼ 5% |
| Cash | € 280,269 | € 315,406 | € 226,568 | € 336,991 | ▲ 49% |
| Land & buildings | € 10,218 | € 9,174 | € 8,129 | € 7,085 | ▼ 13% |
| Retained profit | € 2,177,961 | € 2,177,961 | € 2,255,083 | € 1,979,081 | ▼ 12% |
| Dividend | € 399,059 | € 273,659 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Balance sheet total | € 4,738,130 | € 4,607,326 | € 4,180,465 | € 3,807,071 | ▼ 9% |
| Employees (FTE) | 30.2 | 32.1 | 29.8 | 27.2 | ▼ 2.6 |
Key figures of ROPA, 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 ROPA?
What happened at ROPA in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 276,003 (▼ € 353,125 vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Banjo BV stepped down as director. NBB
- J-Invest BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Banjo BV became a director. NBB
- J-Invest BV became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Zonnebeke. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 351,925 profit in 2022 to € 276,003 loss in 2025.
Paid € 116,913 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 351,925 profit.
On average € 66,200 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of J-Invest comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
ROPAThe shares are held by J-Invest (100%). It owns 25% of ULPower Aero Engines itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
since 2020 · until 2026
since 2020 · until 2026
Shareholders
100%
Participations
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Kasteelstraat 37
8980 Zonnebeke
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
- 0430.249.240
- VAT number
- BE 0430.249.240
- Registered office
- Kasteelstraat 37, 8980 Zonnebeke
- Names & denominations
- ROPA
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 7 January 1987
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 1 Jan 2001
- Contact
- ropa.be
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