Warning lights
Signals from the annual accounts, the CBE and the Official Gazette, each with its threshold and source. No score, no verdict.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 27.6 to 21.1.
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Board fully replaced NBB
No director from three years ago is still active according to annual account 2025.
Financials
Financial year 2025
SONOCO from Machelen (Brab.), company number BE0438082088, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 279.2 million after tax. For that financial year SONOCO recorded revenue of € 5.6 million and equity of € 2.1 billion. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 650,890 to € 279.2 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 10, 2026.
€ 2.1 billion
▲ 1% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 279.2 million
▲ € 278.5 million vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 34.9 million
▲ € 34.9 million vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Stays in the company
No dividend for 2025. Retained profit grew to € 282.3 million.
People and assets in 2025
21.1
▼ 2.7 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 5.9 million
▲ 19% vs 2024
€ 278,900 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.
€ 127,165
▼ 20% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 922,990
▼ 97% vs 2024
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 757,732
▲ 162% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 114 days on average.
€ 356,977
▼ 57% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 6,752,994 | € 7,244,758 | € 5,844,278 | € 5,629,297 | ▼ 4% |
| Profit after taxes | € 831,679 | € 1,813,834 | € 650,890 | € 279,192,091 | ▲ € 278.5 million |
| Equity | € 17,670,542 | € 2,088,393,680 | € 2,031,644,570 | € 2,060,836,660 | ▲ 1% |
| Total debts | € 238,026,332 | € 248,752,452 | € 77,802,624 | € 2,037,699 | ▼ 97% |
| Cash | € 119,264,028 | € 158,308,325 | € 6,913 | € 34,859,989 | ▲ € 34.9 million |
| Retained profit | € 10,670,542 | € 12,484,376 | € 3,135,266 | € 282,327,356 | ▲ € 279.2 million |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 0 | € 10,000,000 | € 0 | ▼ 100% |
| Bank debt | € 107,434,888 | € 112,371,822 | € 28,485,892 | € 922,990 | ▼ 97% |
| Balance sheet total | € 255,696,874 | € 2,337,146,132 | € 2,109,447,193 | € 2,062,874,359 | ▼ 2% |
| Employees (FTE) | 26.5 | 27.6 | 23.8 | 21.1 | ▼ 2.7 |
Key figures of SONOCO, 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 SONOCO?
What happened at SONOCO in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Adam WOOD stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 279.2 million (▲ € 278.5 million vs 2024). filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Jean Philippe BOLAND stepped down as director. NBB
- Roger Bloemen became a director. NBB
- Jean Philippe BOLAND became a director. NBB
- Adam WOOD became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Machelen (Brab.). KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 831,679 profit in 2022 to € 279.2 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 1.2 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 279.2 million profit.
Paid out € 10 million in dividends to the owners in total.
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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
Behind SONOCO is Roger Bloemen. The shares are held by SPC Global Inc (100%). It owns 100% of Colombiana PM LLC, 100% of Sonoco Luxemburg sarl, 100% of Sonoco Deutschland Holding GmbH, 100% of Inversiones Sonoco Limitada, 90.1% of Sonoco de Colombia ltda and 10.1% of Sonoco do Brasil ltda itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Roger Bloemen
Director
since 2025
Jean Philippe BOLAND
Director
since 2022 · until 2025
Adam WOOD
Director
since 2022 · until 2028
Shareholders
SPC Global Inc
100%
Participations
Colombiana PM LLC
100%
Sonoco Luxemburg sarl
100%
Sonoco Deutschland Holding GmbH
100%
Inversiones Sonoco Limitada
100%
Sonoco de Colombia ltda
90.1%
Sonoco do Brasil ltda
10.1%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Culliganlaan 1 box A
1831 Machelen (Brab.)
Jan Mommaertslaan 18 A
1831 Machelen (Brab.)
Active since 21 September 1989
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 3 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0438.082.088
- VAT number
- BE 0438.082.088
- Registered office
- Culliganlaan 1 bus A, 1831 Machelen (Brab.)
- Names & denominations
- SONOCO
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 16 August 1989
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 7 May 2026
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