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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 36 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
EUROPEAN FOOD CENTRE from Brugge, company number BE0431733241, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 937,042 after tax. For that financial year EUROPEAN FOOD CENTRE recorded revenue of € 2.1 million and equity of € 10.7 million. Compared with financial year 2025, the result moved from € 1.2 million to € 937,042. The company is profitable. The buffer is growing. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on July 16, 2026.
€ 10.7 million
▲ 6% vs 2025
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 937,042
▼ 21% vs 2025
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 3 million
▲ 47% vs 2025
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 250,000 paid out
27 % of the profit went to the shareholders, mostly to Fish Food Holding (99 % of the shares). That is where the money ends up.
People and assets in 2025
9.2
▲ 0.3 vs 2025
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 425,129
▼ 44% vs 2025
€ 46,200 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.
€ 2,459
▼ 20% vs 2025
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 2.8 million
▼ 4% vs 2025
€ 237,505 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 12 years.
€ 669,908
▲ € 508,962 vs 2025
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 285 days on average.
€ 512,882
▼ 20% vs 2025
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2025 | Change 2025 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | - | - | € 4,088,185 | € 2,121,431 | ▼ 48% |
| Gross margin | € 2,608,578 | € 2,962,099 | - | - | |
| Profit after taxes | € 930,990 | € 1,003,844 | € 1,192,380 | € 937,042 | ▼ 21% |
| Equity | € 5,674,341 | € 9,442,900 | € 10,152,214 | € 10,723,214 | ▲ 6% |
| Total debts | € 19,753,864 | € 20,566,269 | € 20,339,506 | € 20,101,695 | ▼ 1% |
| Cash | € 4,920,682 | € 5,031,892 | € 2,011,607 | € 2,965,178 | ▲ 47% |
| Land & buildings | € 7,496,570 | € 11,487,207 | € 11,119,983 | € 10,539,516 | ▼ 5% |
| Retained profit | € 3,177,823 | € 3,931,667 | € 4,874,047 | € 5,561,089 | ▲ 14% |
| Dividend | € 250,000 | € 250,000 | € 250,000 | € 250,000 | |
| Bank debt | € 2,330,329 | € 3,112,177 | € 2,879,157 | € 2,763,220 | ▼ 4% |
| Balance sheet total | € 27,191,441 | € 31,449,357 | € 32,097,908 | € 32,473,269 | ▲ 1% |
| Employees (FTE) | 7.3 | 9.3 | 8.9 | 9.2 | ▲ 0.3 |
Key figures of EUROPEAN FOOD CENTRE, fiscal years 2023 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 EUROPEAN FOOD CENTRE?
What happened at EUROPEAN FOOD CENTRE in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Mauriwa NV stepped down as director. NBB
- Argu BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Lukoban BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Sylvie Becaus stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 1.2 million (▲ 19% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Mauriwa NV became a director. NBB
- Argu BV became a director. NBB
- Sylvie Becaus became a director. NBB
In short
From € 930,990 profit in 2023 to € 937,042 profit in 2025.
Paid € 1.2 million in corporate taxes since 2023.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 1.2 million profit.
On average € 318,500 of value added per employee in 2024.
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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
The stake of Fish Food Holding comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
EUROPEAN FOOD CENTREThe shares are held by Fish Food Holding (99%). It owns 100% of P.O.M., 100% of Vlaamse Visveiling, 70% of Zeebrugge Food Logistics and 1% of Vereniging Vlaamse Visveilingen itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Marie-Jeanne Pieters
Also active at: PROMOTIE EN ONTWIKKELINGSMAATSCHAPPIJ VOOR DE ZEEBRUGSE VISSERSHAVEN, VLAAMSE VISVEILING
since 2023 · until 2029
Director · represented by Guido Roels
Also active at: ZEEBRUGGE FOOD LOGISTICS, VLAAMSE VISVEILING
since 2023 · until 2029
Chairman of the board · represented by Piet Vanthemsche
Also active at: ZEEBRUGGE FOOD LOGISTICS, 3 D, VLAAMSE VISVEILING, 3D Skywalkers, House of Odin
since 2023 · until 2029
Sylvie Becaus
Managing director
Also active at: Adviesburo M.J.P., ZEEBRUGGE FOOD LOGISTICS, VERIMO, PROMOTIE EN ONTWIKKELINGSMAATSCHAPPIJ VOOR DE ZEEBRUGSE VISSERSHAVEN, MAURIWA, VLAAMSE VISVEILING, BOTTELCO, VERENIGING VLAAMSE VISVEILINGEN +2 more
since 2023 · until 2029
Shareholders
Participations
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Noordzeestraat 201
8380 Brugge
Maritiem Plein 1
8400 Oostende
Active since 1 November 2010
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 5 companies are registered at this address.
All companies at this address →PROMOTIE EN ONTWIKKELINGSMAATSCHAPPIJ VOOR DE ZEEBRUGSE VISSERSHAVEN same network
€ 859,914 revenue · 2025
VLAAMSE VISVEILING same network
€ 9.6 million revenue · 2025
VERENIGING VLAAMSE VISVEILINGEN same network
€ 36,006 gross margin · 2025
POM BEL same network
€ 637,504 gross margin · 2025
Fish Food Holding same network
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0431.733.241
- VAT number
- BE 0431.733.241
- Registered office
- Noordzeestraat 201, 8380 Brugge
- Names & denominations
- EUROPEAN FOOD CENTRE · E.F.C.
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 7 June 1987
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 25 Nov 2025
- Activities · NACE
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