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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.
Financials
Financial year 2025
BIG FRIEND from Knokke-Heist, company number BE0431535578, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -32,940 after tax. For that financial year BIG FRIEND recorded a gross margin of € 6,353 and equity of € 4 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -9,109 to € -32,940. 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 August 31, 2026.
€ 4 million
▼ 1% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -32,940
▼ 262 % more loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 18,419
▲ 1% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 3 million.
People and assets in 2025
€ 1,216
▼ 27% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 152,908
▲ 1% vs 2024
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 15,331
▼ 81% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 2,210
▼ 47% vs 2024
Corporate tax and VAT still to pay. No wage debt: nothing outstanding to staff or social security.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 271,089 | € 128,691 | € 92,895 | € 6,353 | ▼ 93% |
| Profit after taxes | € 569,053 | € 47,557 | € -9,109 | € -32,940 | ▼ € 23,830 |
| Equity | € 4,365,920 | € 3,993,477 | € 3,984,368 | € 3,951,428 | ▼ 1% |
| Total debts | € 1,364,691 | € 1,403,037 | € 1,087,403 | € 1,111,592 | ▲ 2% |
| Cash | € 405,550 | € 238,506 | € 18,236 | € 18,419 | ▲ 1% |
| Land & buildings | € 1,071,236 | € 1,216,340 | € 1,155,478 | € 1,041,398 | ▼ 10% |
| Retained profit | € 3,453,920 | € 3,081,477 | € 3,072,368 | € 3,039,428 | ▼ 1% |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 420,000 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Bank debt | € 151,745 | € 150,504 | € 150,979 | € 152,908 | ▲ 1% |
| Balance sheet total | € 5,753,221 | € 5,419,125 | € 5,092,549 | € 5,081,964 |
Key figures of BIG FRIEND, 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 BIG FRIEND?
What happened at BIG FRIEND in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 32,940. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Stéphane Vandervelde became a director. NBB
- Sophie Vandervelde became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Knokke-Heist. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 569,053 profit in 2022 to € 32,940 loss in 2025.
Paid € 145,574 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 569,053 profit.
Paid out € 420,000 in dividends to the owners in total.
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De Lijn 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025
filed on 8 June 2026
What was left
€ 20 k ▼ 91%
Money in the bank
€ 178 k ▼ 98%
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NMBS 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left ▼ 80%
bpost 18 May 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left from loss to profit
Management
Behind BIG FRIEND are Stéphane Vandervelde and Sophie Vandervelde. It owns 100% of EasyOrder App, 100% of European Investment Hub, 100% of Nexus Investments and 10.1% of Keyware Technologies itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
since 2026
Sophie Vandervelde
bestuurder
Also active at: PUTTEMANS AUTOMOBILES, ECR Solutions, EUROPEAN INVESTMENT HUB
since 2015
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Kustlaan 15
8300 Knokke-Heist
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 3 companies are registered at this address.
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Website
Technologies
Hosting & Email
Email provider
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Hosting
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Website info
Features
Security
Network
Details
- Company number
- 0431.535.578
- VAT number
- BE 0431.535.578
- Registered office
- Kustlaan 15, 8300 Knokke-Heist
- Names & denominations
- BIG FRIEND
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 1 July 1987
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 29 Jun 2026
- Contact
- musthave.be
- Activities · NACE
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Groothandel in auto's en lichte bestelwagens (= 3,5 ton)
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Verhuur en lease van personenauto's en lichte bestelwagens (< 3,5 ton)
Verhuur en exploitatie van eigen of geleasd niet-residentieel onroerend goed, exclusief terreinen
Groothandel in auto's en lichte bestelwagens (<= 3,5 ton)
Detailhandel in auto's en lichte bestelwagens (<= 3,5 ton)
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