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Financials
Financial year 2025
MERTENS from Sint-Niklaas, company number BE0431640003, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 44,879 after tax. For that financial year MERTENS recorded a gross margin of € -3,137 and equity of € 599,089. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 51,671 to € 44,879. The company is profitable. 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 July 9, 2026.
€ 599,089
▲ 8% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 44,879
▼ 13% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 287,263
▼ 7% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Stays in the company
No dividend for 2025. Retained profit grew to € 536,589.
Debts at end 2025
€ 42,500
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 3,100
▲ 3% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 6,441
▲ 26% 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 | € 8,032 | € 380,619 | € -3,369 | € -3,137 | ▲ € 232 |
| Profit after taxes | € 41,599 | € 317,497 | € 51,671 | € 44,879 | ▼ 13% |
| Equity | € 185,042 | € 502,539 | € 554,210 | € 599,089 | ▲ 8% |
| Total debts | € 169,361 | € 132,079 | € 81,284 | € 56,179 | ▼ 31% |
| Cash | € 1,674 | € 357,422 | € 308,298 | € 287,263 | ▼ 7% |
| Land & buildings | € 25,533 | - | - | - | |
| Retained profit | € 122,542 | € 440,039 | € 491,710 | € 536,589 | ▲ 9% |
| Bank debt | € 82,500 | € 62,500 | € 42,500 | € 42,500 | |
| Balance sheet total | € 354,402 | € 634,617 | € 635,494 | € 655,268 | ▲ 3% |
Key figures of MERTENS, 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 MERTENS?
What happened at MERTENS in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Marina MERTENS stepped down as director. NBB
- Walther MERTENS stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 44,879 (▼ 13% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Marina MERTENS became a director. NBB
- Walther MERTENS became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Sint-Niklaas. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 41,599 profit in 2022 to € 44,879 profit in 2025.
Paid € 112,487 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 317,497 profit.
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De Lijn 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025
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What was left
€ 20 k ▼ 91%
Money in the bank
€ 178 k ▼ 98%
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Management
It owns 99% of Breigoederen M.T. itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
since 2023 · until 2029
since 2023 · until 2029
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Grote Heimelinkstraat 214
9100 Sint-Niklaas
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 1 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0431.640.003
- VAT number
- BE 0431.640.003
- Registered office
- Grote Heimelinkstraat 214, 9100 Sint-Niklaas
- Names & denominations
- MERTENS
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 24 July 1987
- Peppol
- Not registered