What does Metaalwaren Claerbout do?

Metaalwaren Claerbout is a wholesaler in Hooglede. Private Limited, started on 29 December 1987, 1 establishment.

What is the address of Metaalwaren Claerbout?

The registered office of Metaalwaren Claerbout is located at Bruggesteenweg 258, 8830 Hooglede.

Is Metaalwaren Claerbout still active?

Yes. According to the CBE (30 October 2026) Metaalwaren Claerbout is active, legal situation “Normale toestand”, started on 29 December 1987.

Is Metaalwaren Claerbout registered on Peppol?

Yes, Metaalwaren Claerbout is registered on the Peppol network with ID 0208:0432826965.

What is the enterprise number of Metaalwaren Claerbout?

The enterprise number of Metaalwaren Claerbout is BE0432826965.

When was Metaalwaren Claerbout founded?

Metaalwaren Claerbout was founded on 29 December 1987.

Who are the directors of Metaalwaren Claerbout?

According to the 2025 annual accounts, the directors of Metaalwaren Claerbout are: Duropa BV.

Is Metaalwaren Claerbout a reliable company?

Databakkes does not pass judgement; this is what the sources say: Active according to the CBE since 29 December 1987; 4 annual accounts filed, latest fiscal year 2025; 1 directors known from the annual account.

How much profit did Metaalwaren Claerbout make in 2025?

Metaalwaren Claerbout posted a profit after taxes of € 1,189,551 in financial year 2025.

What is the revenue of Metaalwaren Claerbout?

As a small company, Metaalwaren Claerbout is not required to publish revenue in its annual accounts. In financial year 2025, its added value was € 5,101,515.

How much does an employee at Metaalwaren Claerbout earn?

The average wage cost per full-time employee at Metaalwaren Claerbout was € 64,100 in 2025: staff costs of € 2.8 million for 43.4 FTE, according to the annual account at the National Bank. That is the employer's cost, not net pay.

How many employees does Metaalwaren Claerbout have?

According to the 2025 annual accounts, Metaalwaren Claerbout has 43.4 full-time equivalents (FTE).

Metaalwaren Claerbout (Private Limited) - Hooglede

Dossier Metaalwaren Claerbout, printed on 30 October 2026 from databakkes.be/en/0432826965/metaalwaren-claerbout. Sources: CBE, National Bank of Belgium, Belgian Official Gazette.

Financials

Financial year 2025

Metaalwaren Claerbout from Hooglede, company number BE0432826965, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 1.2 million after tax. For that financial year Metaalwaren Claerbout recorded a gross margin of € 5.1 million and equity of € 11 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 1.6 million to € 1.2 million. 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 November 28, 2025.

What it is worth Growing

€ 11 million

▲ 10% vs 2024

Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.

Profit Healthy

€ 1.2 million

▼ 24% vs 2024

Profit after tax over the fiscal year.

Cash in the bank

€ 408,064

▼ 11% vs 2024

Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.

Where the profit goes Pays out

€ 170,000 paid out

14 % of the profit went to the shareholders, the rest stayed in the company.

People and assets in 2025

Full-time equivalents

43.4

▲ 2 vs 2024

Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.

Wage cost

€ 2.8 million

▲ 2% vs 2024

€ 64,100 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.

Vehicles and equipment

€ 164,871

▲ 57% vs 2024

Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.

Debts at end 2025

Bank debt ≈ 7 years to go The accounts give the long-term loan and the part due within the year. The remainder divided by that part is the number of years at an equal pace; a new loan or early repayment changes it.

€ 4.6 million

▼ 9% vs 2024

€ 488,627 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 7 years.

Owed to suppliers

€ 1.4 million

▲ 31% vs 2024

Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.

Taxes and wages

€ 634,549

▲ 10% vs 2024

Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.

Key figures per fiscal year Download key figures (CSV)
	2022	2023	2024	2025	Change 2024 → 2025
Gross margin	€ 5,197,410 Gross margin 2022: € 5,197,410 First fiscal year in the series	€ 5,777,498 Gross margin 2023: € 5,777,498 ▲ 11% vs 2022 (€ 5,197,410) Favourable step	€ 5,482,129 Gross margin 2024: € 5,482,129 ▼ 5% vs 2023 (€ 5,777,498) Unfavourable step	€ 5,101,515 Gross margin 2025: € 5,101,515 ▼ 7% vs 2024 (€ 5,482,129) Unfavourable step	▼ 7%
Profit after taxes	€ 1,875,023 Profit after taxes 2022: € 1,875,023 First fiscal year in the series	€ 2,051,107 Profit after taxes 2023: € 2,051,107 ▲ 9% vs 2022 (€ 1,875,023) Favourable step	€ 1,572,302 Profit after taxes 2024: € 1,572,302 ▼ 23% vs 2023 (€ 2,051,107) Unfavourable step	€ 1,189,551 Profit after taxes 2025: € 1,189,551 ▼ 24% vs 2024 (€ 1,572,302) Unfavourable step	▼ 24%
Equity	€ 6,905,155 Equity 2022: € 6,905,155 First fiscal year in the series	€ 8,606,262 Equity 2023: € 8,606,262 ▲ 25% vs 2022 (€ 6,905,155) Favourable step	€ 10,008,564 Equity 2024: € 10,008,564 ▲ 16% vs 2023 (€ 8,606,262) Favourable step	€ 11,028,115 Equity 2025: € 11,028,115 ▲ 10% vs 2024 (€ 10,008,564) Favourable step	▲ 10%
Total debts	€ 7,919,341 Total debts 2022: € 7,919,341 First fiscal year in the series	€ 7,782,887 Total debts 2023: € 7,782,887 ▼ 2% vs 2022 (€ 7,919,341) Favourable step	€ 7,321,691 Total debts 2024: € 7,321,691 ▼ 6% vs 2023 (€ 7,782,887) Favourable step	€ 7,361,088 Total debts 2025: € 7,361,088 ▲ 1% vs 2024 (€ 7,321,691) Unfavourable step	▲ 1%
Cash	€ 295,443 Cash 2022: € 295,443 First fiscal year in the series	€ 850,422 Cash 2023: € 850,422 ▲ 188% vs 2022 (€ 295,443) Favourable step	€ 461,020 Cash 2024: € 461,020 ▼ 46% vs 2023 (€ 850,422) Unfavourable step	€ 408,064 Cash 2025: € 408,064 ▼ 11% vs 2024 (€ 461,020) Unfavourable step	▼ 11%
Land & buildings	€ 2,765,341 Land & buildings 2022: € 2,765,341 First fiscal year in the series	€ 2,489,560 Land & buildings 2023: € 2,489,560 ▼ 10% vs 2022 (€ 2,765,341) Unchanged	€ 3,683,790 Land & buildings 2024: € 3,683,790 ▲ 48% vs 2023 (€ 2,489,560) Unchanged	€ 3,409,400 Land & buildings 2025: € 3,409,400 ▼ 7% vs 2024 (€ 3,683,790) Unchanged	▼ 7%
Retained profit	€ 6,867,655 Retained profit 2022: € 6,867,655 First fiscal year in the series	€ 8,565,012 Retained profit 2023: € 8,565,012 ▲ 25% vs 2022 (€ 6,867,655) Favourable step	€ 9,967,314 Retained profit 2024: € 9,967,314 ▲ 16% vs 2023 (€ 8,565,012) Favourable step	€ 10,986,865 Retained profit 2025: € 10,986,865 ▲ 10% vs 2024 (€ 9,967,314) Favourable step	▲ 10%
Dividend	€ 350,000 Dividend 2022: € 350,000 First fiscal year in the series	€ 350,000 Dividend 2023: € 350,000 Unchanged (€ 350,000) Unchanged	€ 170,000 Dividend 2024: € 170,000 ▼ 51% vs 2023 (€ 350,000) Unchanged	€ 170,000 Dividend 2025: € 170,000 Unchanged (€ 170,000) Unchanged
Bank debt	€ 5,177,774 Bank debt 2022: € 5,177,774 First fiscal year in the series	€ 4,791,721 Bank debt 2023: € 4,791,721 ▼ 7% vs 2022 (€ 5,177,774) Favourable step	€ 5,057,876 Bank debt 2024: € 5,057,876 ▲ 6% vs 2023 (€ 4,791,721) Unfavourable step	€ 4,608,548 Bank debt 2025: € 4,608,548 ▼ 9% vs 2024 (€ 5,057,876) Favourable step	▼ 9%
Balance sheet total	€ 14,961,187 Balance sheet total 2022: € 14,961,187 First fiscal year in the series	€ 16,591,279 Balance sheet total 2023: € 16,591,279 ▲ 11% vs 2022 (€ 14,961,187) Unchanged	€ 17,604,774 Balance sheet total 2024: € 17,604,774 ▲ 6% vs 2023 (€ 16,591,279) Unchanged	€ 18,736,561 Balance sheet total 2025: € 18,736,561 ▲ 6% vs 2024 (€ 17,604,774) Unchanged	▲ 6%
Employees (FTE)	41.3 Employees (FTE) 2022: 41.3 First fiscal year in the series	41.2 Employees (FTE) 2023: 41.2 ▼ 0.1 vs 2022 (41.3) Unchanged	41.4 Employees (FTE) 2024: 41.4 ▲ 0.2 vs 2023 (41.2) Unchanged	43.4 Employees (FTE) 2025: 43.4 ▲ 2 vs 2024 (41.4) Unchanged	▲ 2

Key figures of Metaalwaren Claerbout, 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 October 2026.

What happened to Metaalwaren Claerbout?

What happened at Metaalwaren Claerbout in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:

Nov 28, 2025 New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 1.2 million (▼ 24% vs 2024). filed late Source: NBB ↗
Feb 3, 1988 New establishment in Hooglede. KBO
Dec 29, 1987 Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO

In short

From € 1.9 million profit in 2022 to € 1.2 million profit in 2025.

Paid € 1.9 million in corporate taxes since 2022.

Best year ever: 2023, with € 2.1 million profit.

On average € 117,500 of value added per employee in 2025.

Original PDFs at the National Bank ↗

Management

Duropa BV

Metaalwaren Claerbout

FERROTRADE BV 50%

Behind Metaalwaren Claerbout is Duropa BV. It owns 50% of FERROTRADE BV itself.

Directors

According to the 2025 annual accounts

Duropa BV

Director · represented by Claerbout PIETER

Establishments

Establishment units

Physical locations of this company

Registered office

Bruggesteenweg 258

8830 Hooglede

What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.

Details

Company number

0432.826.965

VAT number

BE 0432.826.965

Registered office

Bruggesteenweg 258, 8830 Hooglede

Names & denominations

Metaalwaren Claerbout

Enterprise type

Rechtspersoon

Legal form

Private limited company

Legal situation

Normale toestand

Start date

29 December 1987

Peppol

Active · Active since 10 Dec 2025

Activities · NACE

Groothandel in ijzerwaren

Groothandel in bouwmaterialen, algemeen assortiment

Groothandel in overige bouwmaterialen

View on CBE Public ↗ Annual accounts (NBB) ↗

Metaalwaren Claerbout

Financials

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Management

Directors

Establishments

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