What does DESIGN EXPRESS do?

DESIGN EXPRESS is a photographer in Mechelen. Private Limited, started on 1 June 1989, 2 establishments.

What is the address of DESIGN EXPRESS?

The registered office of DESIGN EXPRESS is located at Kleine Heide(LST) 26, 2811 Mechelen.

Is DESIGN EXPRESS still active?

Yes. According to the CBE (29 October 2026) DESIGN EXPRESS is active, legal situation “Normale toestand”, started on 1 June 1989.

Is DESIGN EXPRESS registered on Peppol?

Yes, DESIGN EXPRESS is registered on the Peppol network with ID 0208:0437557892.

What is the enterprise number of DESIGN EXPRESS?

The enterprise number of DESIGN EXPRESS is BE0437557892.

When was DESIGN EXPRESS founded?

DESIGN EXPRESS was founded on 1 June 1989.

Who are the directors of DESIGN EXPRESS?

According to the 2025 annual accounts, the directors of DESIGN EXPRESS are: Lucas Vandersanden.

Is DESIGN EXPRESS a reliable company?

Databakkes does not pass judgement; this is what the sources say: Active according to the CBE since 1 June 1989; 5 annual accounts filed, latest fiscal year 2025; 1 directors known from the annual account; 2 establishments in the CBE.

How much profit did DESIGN EXPRESS make in 2025?

DESIGN EXPRESS posted a profit after taxes of € 1,770,969 in financial year 2025.

What is the revenue of DESIGN EXPRESS?

In its most recent annual accounts (2025), DESIGN EXPRESS reported revenue of € 14,746,016.

How much does an employee at DESIGN EXPRESS earn?

The average wage cost per full-time employee at DESIGN EXPRESS was € 112,000 in 2025: staff costs of € 2.7 million for 24.5 FTE, according to the annual account at the National Bank. That is the employer's cost, not net pay.

How many employees does DESIGN EXPRESS have?

According to the 2025 annual accounts, DESIGN EXPRESS has 24.5 full-time equivalents (FTE).

Does DESIGN EXPRESS have a website?

Yes, DESIGN EXPRESS has a website at designexpress.eu.

DESIGN EXPRESS (Private Limited) - Mechelen

Dossier DESIGN EXPRESS, printed on 29 October 2026 from databakkes.be/en/0437557892/design-express. 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.

Shrinking team NBB

FTE fell two years in a row, from 44.8 to 24.5.

Financials

Financial year 2025

DESIGN EXPRESS from Mechelen, company number BE0437557892, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 1.8 million after tax. For that financial year DESIGN EXPRESS recorded revenue of € 14.7 million and equity of € 5.7 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 1.2 million to € 1.8 million. 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 August 31, 2026.

What it is worth Growing

€ 5.7 million

▲ 45% vs 2024

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

Profit Growing

€ 1.8 million

▲ 45% vs 2024

Profit after tax over the fiscal year.

Cash in the bank

€ 4.2 million

▲ 55% vs 2024

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

Where the profit goes Growing

Stays in the company

No dividend for 2025. Retained profit grew to € 5.7 million.

People and assets in 2025

Full-time equivalents

24.5

▼ 4.2 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: € 1.6 million in 2025, together with rent, insurance, accountants and other services. The accounts do not split that further.

€ 2.7 million

▼ 4% vs 2024

€ 112,000 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

€ 148,784

▲ 3% vs 2024

Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.

Debts at end 2025

Bank debt

None

No bank loans on the last day of the fiscal year.

Owed to suppliers

€ 1.2 million

▼ 14% vs 2024

Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 48 days on average.

Taxes and wages

€ 783,386

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	€ 11,590,750 Revenue 2022: € 11,590,750 First fiscal year in the series	€ 13,949,020 Revenue 2023: € 13,949,020 ▲ 20% vs 2022 (€ 11,590,750) Favourable step	€ 12,027,202 Revenue 2024: € 12,027,202 ▼ 14% vs 2023 (€ 13,949,020) Unfavourable step	€ 14,746,016 Revenue 2025: € 14,746,016 ▲ 23% vs 2024 (€ 12,027,202) Favourable step	▲ 23%
Profit after taxes	€ 1,283,251 Profit after taxes 2022: € 1,283,251 First fiscal year in the series	€ 2,103,036 Profit after taxes 2023: € 2,103,036 ▲ 64% vs 2022 (€ 1,283,251) Favourable step	€ 1,222,510 Profit after taxes 2024: € 1,222,510 ▼ 42% vs 2023 (€ 2,103,036) Unfavourable step	€ 1,770,969 Profit after taxes 2025: € 1,770,969 ▲ 45% vs 2024 (€ 1,222,510) Favourable step	▲ 45%
Equity	€ 2,724,062 Equity 2022: € 2,724,062 First fiscal year in the series	€ 2,724,097 Equity 2023: € 2,724,097 Unchanged (€ 2,724,062) Favourable step	€ 3,946,608 Equity 2024: € 3,946,608 ▲ 45% vs 2023 (€ 2,724,097) Favourable step	€ 5,717,576 Equity 2025: € 5,717,576 ▲ 45% vs 2024 (€ 3,946,608) Favourable step	▲ 45%
Total debts	€ 2,456,546 Total debts 2022: € 2,456,546 First fiscal year in the series	€ 3,776,267 Total debts 2023: € 3,776,267 ▲ 54% vs 2022 (€ 2,456,546) Unfavourable step	€ 3,316,787 Total debts 2024: € 3,316,787 ▼ 12% vs 2023 (€ 3,776,267) Favourable step	€ 3,124,952 Total debts 2025: € 3,124,952 ▼ 6% vs 2024 (€ 3,316,787) Favourable step	▼ 6%
Cash	€ 1,477,259 Cash 2022: € 1,477,259 First fiscal year in the series	€ 1,838,581 Cash 2023: € 1,838,581 ▲ 24% vs 2022 (€ 1,477,259) Favourable step	€ 2,735,460 Cash 2024: € 2,735,460 ▲ 49% vs 2023 (€ 1,838,581) Favourable step	€ 4,230,310 Cash 2025: € 4,230,310 ▲ 55% vs 2024 (€ 2,735,460) Favourable step	▲ 55%
Land & buildings	€ 1,148,118 Land & buildings 2022: € 1,148,118 First fiscal year in the series	€ 1,175,637 Land & buildings 2023: € 1,175,637 ▲ 2% vs 2022 (€ 1,148,118) Unchanged	€ 1,490,295 Land & buildings 2024: € 1,490,295 ▲ 27% vs 2023 (€ 1,175,637) Unchanged	€ 1,706,413 Land & buildings 2025: € 1,706,413 ▲ 15% vs 2024 (€ 1,490,295) Unchanged	▲ 15%
Retained profit	€ 2,705,462 Retained profit 2022: € 2,705,462 First fiscal year in the series	€ 2,705,497 Retained profit 2023: € 2,705,497 Unchanged (€ 2,705,462) Favourable step	€ 3,928,008 Retained profit 2024: € 3,928,008 ▲ 45% vs 2023 (€ 2,705,497) Favourable step	€ 5,698,976 Retained profit 2025: € 5,698,976 ▲ 45% vs 2024 (€ 3,928,008) Favourable step	▲ 45%
Dividend	€ 1,500,000 Dividend 2022: € 1,500,000 First fiscal year in the series	€ 2,103,000 Dividend 2023: € 2,103,000 ▲ 40% vs 2022 (€ 1,500,000) Unchanged	€ 0 Dividend 2024: € 0 ▼ 100% vs 2023 (€ 2,103,000) Unchanged	€ 0 Dividend 2025: € 0 Unchanged (€ 0) Unchanged
Balance sheet total	€ 5,180,608 Balance sheet total 2022: € 5,180,608 First fiscal year in the series	€ 6,500,364 Balance sheet total 2023: € 6,500,364 ▲ 25% vs 2022 (€ 5,180,608) Unchanged	€ 7,263,395 Balance sheet total 2024: € 7,263,395 ▲ 12% vs 2023 (€ 6,500,364) Unchanged	€ 8,842,528 Balance sheet total 2025: € 8,842,528 ▲ 22% vs 2024 (€ 7,263,395) Unchanged	▲ 22%
Employees (FTE)	46.5 Employees (FTE) 2022: 46.5 First fiscal year in the series	44.8 Employees (FTE) 2023: 44.8 ▼ 1.7 vs 2022 (46.5) Unchanged	28.7 Employees (FTE) 2024: 28.7 ▼ 16.1 vs 2023 (44.8) Unchanged	24.5 Employees (FTE) 2025: 24.5 ▼ 4.2 vs 2024 (28.7) Unchanged	▼ 4.2

Key figures of DESIGN EXPRESS, 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 DESIGN EXPRESS?

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

Aug 31, 2026 New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 1.8 million (▲ 45% vs 2024). filed late Source: NBB ↗
2023 Lucas Vandersanden became a director. NBB
Jan 2, 2012 New establishment in Hasselt. KBO
Jun 19, 1989 New establishment in Mechelen. KBO
Jun 1, 1989 Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO

In short

From € 1.3 million profit in 2022 to € 1.8 million profit in 2025.

Paid € 2.1 million in corporate taxes since 2022.

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

Paid out € 3.6 million in dividends to the owners in total.

Original PDFs at the National Bank ↗

Management

PARTE 99.9%

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

DESIGN EXPRESS

Behind DESIGN EXPRESS is Lucas Vandersanden. The shares are held by PARTE (99.9%).

Directors

According to the 2025 annual accounts

Lucas Vandersanden

Director

Also active at: DUOTOON, Ceresco, GALMBREM, VERSALE INVESTMENTS, VANSAN INVESTMENTS, VANSAN HOLDING, VANDERSANDEN GROUP, PARTE

since 2023

Shareholders

PARTE

99.9%

Participations

No participations in other companies reported.

Establishments

Establishment units

Physical locations of this company

Registered office

Kleine Heide(LST) 26

2811 Mechelen

2.229.577.365

Kempische Kaai 73 box 001

3500 Hasselt

Active since 2 January 2012

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

Website

HTTPS designexpress.eu

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Hosting & Email

Email provider

Google Workspace

Hosting

AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US

DNS

AWS Route 53

Domain

designexpress.eu

Registrar

GANDI

Website info

HTTPS Ja

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Company number

0437.557.892

VAT number

BE 0437.557.892

Registered office

Kleine Heide(LST) 26, 2811 Mechelen

Names & denominations

DESIGN EXPRESS

Enterprise type

Rechtspersoon

Legal form

Private limited company

Legal situation

Normale toestand

Start date

1 June 1989

Peppol

Active · Active since 2 Jun 2025

Contact

designexpress.eu [email protected]

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