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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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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2024 and 2025.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 12.3 to 6.
Financials
Financial year 2025
VAN LAETHEM from Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, company number BE0430249834, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -106,803 after tax. For that financial year VAN LAETHEM recorded a gross margin of € 423,606 and equity of € 2.5 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -41,227 to € -106,803. 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 June 23, 2026.
€ 2.5 million
▼ 4% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -106,803
▼ 159 % more loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 297,631
▼ 13% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 712,133.
People and assets in 2025
6
▼ 5.6 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 327,915
▲ 14% vs 2024
€ 54,700 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.
€ 185,994
▼ 27% vs 2024
Of which on lease € 57,690.
Debts at end 2025
€ 119,517
▼ 33% vs 2024
€ 44,768 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 3 years.
€ 467,855
▼ 15% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 52,247
▼ 30% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2023 | 2024 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 769,555 | € 568,120 | € 362,866 | € 423,606 | ▲ 17% |
| Profit after taxes | € -55,587 | € -219,180 | € -41,227 | € -106,803 | ▼ € 65,577 |
| Equity | € 2,820,916 | € 2,601,736 | € 2,560,510 | € 2,453,706 | ▼ 4% |
| Total debts | € 1,531,969 | € 1,417,530 | € 1,317,222 | € 1,018,904 | ▼ 23% |
| Cash | € 689,495 | € 250,197 | € 340,200 | € 297,631 | ▼ 13% |
| Land & buildings | € 1,735,000 | € 1,733,459 | € 1,732,882 | € 1,796,213 | ▲ 4% |
| Retained profit | € 1,079,343 | € 860,163 | € 818,937 | € 712,133 | ▼ 13% |
| Bank debt | € 94,185 | € 70,678 | € 178,947 | € 119,517 | ▼ 33% |
| Balance sheet total | € 4,352,886 | € 4,019,267 | € 3,877,732 | € 3,472,611 | ▼ 10% |
| Employees (FTE) | 9.9 | 12.3 | 11.6 | 6 | ▼ 5.6 |
Key figures of VAN LAETHEM, fiscal years 2023 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 VAN LAETHEM?
What happened at VAN LAETHEM in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 106,803. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- William De Witte became a director. NBB
- Joke Van Doorne became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Brussel. KBO
- New establishment in Sint-Pieters-Leeuw. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 55,587 loss in 2023 to € 106,803 loss in 2025.
Paid € 10,261 in corporate taxes since 2023.
On average € 70,600 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of VAN LIER comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
VAN LAETHEMBehind VAN LAETHEM are William De Witte and Joke Van Doorne. The shares are held by VAN LIER (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
William De Witte
Director
Also active at: THIRY GENT, DEPONDT, ALVA IMMO, WILL - INVEST, DE WITTE WILLIAM, COCCINELLE, VAN LIER, FRUGRO +23 more
since 2025
Joke Van Doorne
Director
Also active at: THIRY GENT, DEPONDT, ALVA IMMO, WILL - INVEST, DE WITTE WILLIAM, COCCINELLE, VAN LIER, CORENT +19 more
since 2025
Shareholders
100%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Postweg 20
1602 Sint-Pieters-Leeuw
Werkhuizenkaai 112/27
1000 Brussel
Active since 1 January 2007
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 3 companies are registered at this address.
All companies at this address →What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Website
Technologies
Certifications & Partners
Hosting & Email
Email provider
Microsoft 365
Hosting
COMBELL-AS, BE
DNS
Cloudflare DNS
Domain
Domain
vanlaethem.eu
Registrar
Combell NV
Website info
Features
Security
Details
- Company number
- 0430.249.834
- VAT number
- BE 0430.249.834
- Registered office
- Postweg 20, 1602 Sint-Pieters-Leeuw
- Names & denominations
- VAN LAETHEM
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 8 January 1987
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 11 Sept 2026
- Contact
- vanlaethem.eu
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