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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2024 and 2025.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 154.2 to 130.
Financials
Financial year 2025
KAREL VAN DE POEL EN ZONEN from Herenthout, company number BE0437674391, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -1.6 million after tax. For that financial year KAREL VAN DE POEL EN ZONEN recorded revenue of € 38.9 million and equity of € 2.6 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -56,449 to € -1.6 million. The company made a loss. The company holds a healthy buffer. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on June 16, 2026.
€ 2.6 million
▼ 37% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -1.6 million
▼ 2698 % more loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 231,315
▼ 55% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 2.5 million.
People and assets in 2025
130
▼ 21.4 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 8.2 million
▼ 18% vs 2024
€ 62,800 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.
€ 7.4 million
▼ 14% vs 2024
Of which on lease € 7.1 million.
Debts at end 2025
€ 12.6 million
▼ 10% vs 2024
€ 2.2 million is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 4 years.
€ 4.6 million
▲ 21% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 54 days on average.
€ 910,232
▼ 33% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 49,489,277 | € 47,771,336 | € 46,320,621 | € 38,949,750 | ▼ 16% |
| Profit after taxes | € 61,130 | € -289,651 | € -56,449 | € -1,579,558 | ▼ € 1.5 million |
| Equity | € 4,567,457 | € 4,277,806 | € 4,221,357 | € 2,641,799 | ▼ 37% |
| Total debts | € 16,117,922 | € 18,626,360 | € 21,211,830 | € 20,308,575 | ▼ 4% |
| Cash | € 505,497 | € 573,980 | € 514,539 | € 231,315 | ▼ 55% |
| Land & buildings | € 217,603 | € 175,934 | € 137,623 | € 111,504 | ▼ 19% |
| Retained profit | € 4,452,065 | € 4,162,414 | € 4,105,965 | € 2,526,407 | ▼ 38% |
| Bank debt | € 8,497,152 | € 11,357,212 | € 13,978,921 | € 12,619,664 | ▼ 10% |
| Balance sheet total | € 20,685,379 | € 22,904,166 | € 25,433,187 | € 22,950,374 | ▼ 10% |
| Employees (FTE) | 157.6 | 154.2 | 151.4 | 130 | ▼ 21.4 |
Key figures of KAREL VAN DE POEL EN ZONEN, 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 KAREL VAN DE POEL EN ZONEN?
What happened at KAREL VAN DE POEL EN ZONEN in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- LUC & WIM VAN DE POEL BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Wim Van de Poel stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 1.6 million. Source: NBB ↗
- LUC & WIM VAN DE POEL BV became a director. NBB
- Wim Van de Poel became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Herentals. KBO
- New establishment in Menen. KBO
- New establishment in Herenthout. KBO
In short
From € 61,130 profit in 2022 to € 1.6 million loss in 2025.
Paid € 71,417 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 61,130 profit.
Pays suppliers within 54 days on average.
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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 LUC & WIM VAN DE POEL comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
KAREL VAN DE POEL EN ZONENThe shares are held by LUC & WIM VAN DE POEL (98.7%). It owns 100% of Joma itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Luc Van de Poel
since 2025 · until 2031
since 2025 · until 2031
Shareholders
98.7%
Participations
100%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Atealaan 32
2270 Herenthout
LAR blok P 50A -51B
8930 Menen
Active since 13 January 2020
Atealaan(HRT) 34 box C
2200 Herentals
Active since 1 September 2021
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 4 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0437.674.391
- VAT number
- BE 0437.674.391
- Registered office
- Atealaan 32, 2270 Herenthout
- Names & denominations
- KAREL VAN DE POEL EN ZONEN
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 13 June 1989
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 30 Dec 2025
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