Financials
Financial year 2025
Darta from Ardooie, company number BE0434257617, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 16.7 million after tax. For that financial year Darta recorded revenue of € 293.6 million and equity of € 161.3 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 23.2 million to € 16.7 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 January 12, 2026.
€ 161.3 million
▲ 9% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 16.7 million
▼ 28% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 4 million
▲ 10% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 3 million paid out
18 % of the profit went to the shareholders, mostly to Kadaps (100 % of the shares). That is where the money ends up.
People and assets in 2025
480.4
▲ 28.7 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 31.4 million
▲ 9% vs 2024
€ 65,400 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.
€ 3.9 million
▲ 23% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 89.6 million
▲ 91% vs 2024
€ 8.5 million is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 6 years.
€ 37 million
▲ 53% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 51 days on average.
€ 4.4 million
▲ 13% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 205,067,869 | € 239,303,056 | € 281,956,229 | € 293,624,266 | ▲ 4% |
| Profit after taxes | € 12,799,603 | € 21,351,091 | € 23,215,210 | € 16,657,942 | ▼ 28% |
| Equity | € 108,484,171 | € 127,070,847 | € 147,703,101 | € 161,326,604 | ▲ 9% |
| Total debts | € 96,326,850 | € 80,686,808 | € 80,340,830 | € 135,438,383 | ▲ 69% |
| Cash | € 2,872,648 | € 3,979,273 | € 3,586,496 | € 3,951,032 | ▲ 10% |
| Land & buildings | € 31,931,129 | € 32,328,364 | € 34,173,107 | € 40,182,949 | ▲ 18% |
| Retained profit | € 97,441,682 | € 115,793,973 | € 136,373,923 | € 150,028,866 | ▲ 10% |
| Dividend | € 1,999,200 | € 2,998,800 | € 3,850,000 | € 3,003,000 | ▼ 22% |
| Bank debt | € 56,009,005 | € 39,045,482 | € 47,001,665 | € 89,605,456 | ▲ 91% |
| Balance sheet total | € 205,526,039 | € 208,339,534 | € 228,874,053 | € 297,156,358 | ▲ 30% |
| Employees (FTE) | 402.4 | 418.7 | 451.7 | 480.4 | ▲ 28.7 |
Key figures of Darta, fiscal years 2022 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2026) expected before 30 January 2027.
What happened to Darta?
What happened at Darta in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- P CONSULTANCY CommV stepped down as director. NBB
- ATMAN BV stepped down as director. NBB
- DELTAL BV stepped down as director. NBB
- LAURIS BV stepped down as director. NBB
- MARTHOM CommV stepped down as director. NBB
- STELI CommV stepped down as director. NBB
- UNITAL BV stepped down as director. NBB
- ALIMA CONSULTING BV stepped down as director. NBB
In short
From € 12.8 million profit in 2022 to € 16.7 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 22.9 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 23.2 million profit.
Paid out € 11.9 million in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
The stake of Kadaps comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
DartaThe shares are held by Kadaps (100%). It owns 100% of DARTA ITALIA S.R.L., 100% of D'ARTA UK Limited, 100% of DARTA ALENTEJO SA, 33.3% of IMMO COLDO and 24% of TRANSFORMADOS AGRÍCOLAS DE ALBACETE S.L.U. itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Managing director · represented by Pieter DE BACKERE
Also active at: Verbeke Remi en Zonen
since 2021 · until 2026
Managing director · represented by Andries TALPE
since 2021 · until 2026
since 2021 · until 2026
Director · represented by Johan GHYSELEN
since 2021 · until 2026
Director · represented by Pieter VAN DAELE
since 2022 · until 2026
Managing director · represented by Steve DE BACKERE
since 2021 · until 2026
Director · represented by Johan TALPE
since 2021 · until 2026
Director · represented by An VANDENBERGHE
since 2022 · until 2026
Director · represented by Jean-Pierre DE BACKERE
since 2021 · until 2026
Director · represented by Jørgen TRAUWAEN
since 2022 · until 2026
Shareholders
100%
Participations
DARTA ITALIA S.R.L.
100%
100%
100%
33.3%
TRANSFORMADOS AGRÍCOLAS DE ALBACETE S.L.U.
24%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Pittemsestraat 58 box A
8850 Ardooie
Pittemsestraat 58 A
8850 Ardooie
Active since 15 June 1988
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
- 0434.257.617
- VAT number
- BE 0434.257.617
- Registered office
- Pittemsestraat 58 bus A, 8850 Ardooie
- Names & denominations
- Darta
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 13 May 1988
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 18 Dec 2025
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