FERO is a wholesaler in Oudenaarde. Public Limited, started on 27 September 1988, 1 establishment.

What is the address of FERO?

The registered office of FERO is located at Industriepark "De Bruwaan" 17, 9700 Oudenaarde.

Is FERO still active?

Yes. According to the CBE (29 October 2026) FERO is active, legal situation “Normale toestand”, started on 27 September 1988.

Is FERO registered on Peppol?

Yes, FERO is registered on the Peppol network with ID 0208:0435384203.

What is the enterprise number of FERO?

The enterprise number of FERO is BE0435384203.

When was FERO founded?

FERO was founded on 27 September 1988.

Who are the directors of FERO?

According to the 2025 annual accounts, the directors of FERO are: UNIFIRE BV.

Is FERO a reliable company?

Databakkes does not pass judgement; this is what the sources say: Active according to the CBE since 27 September 1988; 4 annual accounts filed, latest fiscal year 2025; 1 directors known from the annual account.

How much profit did FERO make in 2025?

FERO posted a profit after taxes of € 571,561 in financial year 2025.

What is the revenue of FERO?

In its most recent annual accounts (2025), FERO reported revenue of € 16,156,079.

How much does an employee at FERO earn?

The average wage cost per full-time employee at FERO was € 65,400 in 2025: staff costs of € 1.4 million for 21.1 FTE, according to the annual account at the National Bank. That is the employer's cost, not net pay.

How many employees does FERO have?

According to the 2025 annual accounts, FERO has 21.1 full-time equivalents (FTE).

FERO (Public Limited) - Oudenaarde - BE0435384203

Dossier FERO, printed on 29 October 2026 from databakkes.be/en/0435384203/fero. Sources: CBE, National Bank of Belgium, Belgian Official Gazette.

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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.

Tight liquidity NBB

Cash and receivables cover 55 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.

Financials

Financial year 2025

FERO from Oudenaarde, company number BE0435384203, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 571,561 after tax. For that financial year FERO recorded revenue of € 16.2 million and equity of € 2.9 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 245,442 to € 571,561. Profitable, and profit is growing. 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

€ 2.9 million

▲ 23% vs 2024

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

Profit Growing

€ 571,561

▲ 133% vs 2024

Profit after tax over the fiscal year.

Cash in the bank

€ 291,179

▼ 2% vs 2024

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

Where the profit goes Pays out

€ 28,578 paid out

5 % of the profit went to the shareholders, mostly to UNIFIRE (100 % of the shares). That is where the money ends up.

People and assets in 2025

Full-time equivalents

21.1

▼ 0.9 vs 2024

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

Wage cost Staff costs are payroll only. Director pay sits with services and miscellaneous goods: € 2.5 million in 2025, together with rent, insurance, accountants and other services. The accounts do not split that further.

€ 1.4 million

▼ 5% 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.

Vehicles and equipment

€ 51,790

▼ 32% vs 2024

Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.

Debts at end 2025

Bank debt ≈ 3 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.

€ 3.4 million

▲ 51% vs 2024

€ 507,793 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 3 years.

Owed to suppliers

€ 763,791

▼ 31% vs 2024

Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 20 days on average.

Taxes and wages

€ 278,184

▲ 11% 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
Revenue	€ 20,665,558 Revenue 2022: € 20,665,558 First fiscal year in the series	€ 25,153,890 Revenue 2023: € 25,153,890 ▲ 22% vs 2022 (€ 20,665,558) Favourable step	€ 14,234,828 Revenue 2024: € 14,234,828 ▼ 43% vs 2023 (€ 25,153,890) Unfavourable step	€ 16,156,079 Revenue 2025: € 16,156,079 ▲ 13% vs 2024 (€ 14,234,828) Favourable step	▲ 13%
Profit after taxes	€ 1,777,743 Profit after taxes 2022: € 1,777,743 First fiscal year in the series	€ 2,057,238 Profit after taxes 2023: € 2,057,238 ▲ 16% vs 2022 (€ 1,777,743) Favourable step	€ 245,442 Profit after taxes 2024: € 245,442 ▼ 88% vs 2023 (€ 2,057,238) Unfavourable step	€ 571,561 Profit after taxes 2025: € 571,561 ▲ 133% vs 2024 (€ 245,442) Favourable step	▲ 133%
Equity	€ 3,178,697 Equity 2022: € 3,178,697 First fiscal year in the series	€ 2,112,130 Equity 2023: € 2,112,130 ▼ 34% vs 2022 (€ 3,178,697) Unfavourable step	€ 2,345,299 Equity 2024: € 2,345,299 ▲ 11% vs 2023 (€ 2,112,130) Favourable step	€ 2,888,282 Equity 2025: € 2,888,282 ▲ 23% vs 2024 (€ 2,345,299) Favourable step	▲ 23%
Total debts	€ 3,054,042 Total debts 2022: € 3,054,042 First fiscal year in the series	€ 5,751,354 Total debts 2023: € 5,751,354 ▲ 88% vs 2022 (€ 3,054,042) Unfavourable step	€ 6,528,716 Total debts 2024: € 6,528,716 ▲ 14% vs 2023 (€ 5,751,354) Unfavourable step	€ 4,484,994 Total debts 2025: € 4,484,994 ▼ 31% vs 2024 (€ 6,528,716) Favourable step	▼ 31%
Cash	€ 1,553,702 Cash 2022: € 1,553,702 First fiscal year in the series	€ 404,927 Cash 2023: € 404,927 ▼ 74% vs 2022 (€ 1,553,702) Unfavourable step	€ 296,960 Cash 2024: € 296,960 ▼ 27% vs 2023 (€ 404,927) Unfavourable step	€ 291,179 Cash 2025: € 291,179 ▼ 2% vs 2024 (€ 296,960) Unfavourable step	▼ 2%
Retained profit	€ 3,116,327 Retained profit 2022: € 3,116,327 First fiscal year in the series	€ 2,049,760 Retained profit 2023: € 2,049,760 ▼ 34% vs 2022 (€ 3,116,327) Unfavourable step	€ 2,282,929 Retained profit 2024: € 2,282,929 ▲ 11% vs 2023 (€ 2,049,760) Favourable step	€ 2,825,912 Retained profit 2025: € 2,825,912 ▲ 24% vs 2024 (€ 2,282,929) Favourable step	▲ 24%
Dividend	€ 2,655,026 Dividend 2022: € 2,655,026 First fiscal year in the series	€ 3,102,862 Dividend 2023: € 3,102,862 ▲ 17% vs 2022 (€ 2,655,026) Unchanged	€ 12,272 Dividend 2024: € 12,272 ▼ € 3.1 million vs 2023 (€ 3,102,862) Unchanged	€ 28,578 Dividend 2025: € 28,578 ▲ 133% vs 2024 (€ 12,272) Unchanged	▲ 133%
Bank debt	€ 25,629 Bank debt 2022: € 25,629 First fiscal year in the series	€ 2,167,299 Bank debt 2023: € 2,167,299 ▲ € 2.1 million vs 2022 (€ 25,629) Unfavourable step	€ 2,242,543 Bank debt 2024: € 2,242,543 ▲ 3% vs 2023 (€ 2,167,299) Unfavourable step	€ 3,385,624 Bank debt 2025: € 3,385,624 ▲ 51% vs 2024 (€ 2,242,543) Unfavourable step	▲ 51%
Balance sheet total	€ 6,232,739 Balance sheet total 2022: € 6,232,739 First fiscal year in the series	€ 7,863,483 Balance sheet total 2023: € 7,863,483 ▲ 26% vs 2022 (€ 6,232,739) Unchanged	€ 8,874,016 Balance sheet total 2024: € 8,874,016 ▲ 13% vs 2023 (€ 7,863,483) Unchanged	€ 7,373,276 Balance sheet total 2025: € 7,373,276 ▼ 17% vs 2024 (€ 8,874,016) Unchanged	▼ 17%
Employees (FTE)	20 Employees (FTE) 2022: 20 First fiscal year in the series	21.5 Employees (FTE) 2023: 21.5 ▲ 1.5 vs 2022 (20) Unchanged	22 Employees (FTE) 2024: 22 ▲ 0.5 vs 2023 (21.5) Unchanged	21.1 Employees (FTE) 2025: 21.1 ▼ 0.9 vs 2024 (22) Unchanged	▼ 0.9

Key figures of FERO, 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 FERO?

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

2027 UNIFIRE BV stepped down as director. NBB
Nov 28, 2025 New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 571,561 (▲ 133% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
2021 UNIFIRE BV became a director. NBB
Oct 11, 1988 New establishment in Oudenaarde. KBO
Sep 27, 1988 Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO

In short

From € 1.8 million profit in 2022 to € 571,561 profit in 2025.

Paid € 1.6 million in corporate taxes since 2022.

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

Paid out € 5.8 million in dividends to the owners in total.

Original PDFs at the National Bank ↗

Management

UNIFIRE 100%

The stake of UNIFIRE comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.

FERO

The shares are held by UNIFIRE (100%).

Directors

According to the 2025 annual accounts

UNIFIRE BV

Director · represented by PATRICK BAUWENS

Also active at: FLEXINOX, SOCOTHERMIC, STOVEPLANET, BELGOFIRE, OUTDOOR CAMPUS, UNIFIRE SERVICE

since 2021 · until 2027

Shareholders

UNIFIRE

100%

Participations

No participations in other companies reported.

Establishments

Establishment units

Physical locations of this company

Registered office

Industriepark "De Bruwaan" 17

9700 Oudenaarde

Who else lives here?

A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 2 companies are registered at this address.

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FLEXINOX same network

€ 1.7 million gross margin · 2025

UNIFIRE SERVICE same network

€ 1.5 million gross margin · 2025

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Company number

0435.384.203

VAT number

BE 0435.384.203

Registered office

Industriepark "De Bruwaan" 17, 9700 Oudenaarde

Names & denominations

FERO

Enterprise type

Rechtspersoon

Legal form

Public limited company

Legal situation

Normale toestand

Start date

27 September 1988

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