Financials
Financial year 2025
UNICUM TRADE BOTANICALS from Lier, company number BE0438830572, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 546,310 after tax. For that financial year UNICUM TRADE BOTANICALS recorded revenue of € 13.5 million and equity of € 3.9 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 704,457 to € 546,310. 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 June 30, 2026.
€ 3.9 million
▲ 42% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 546,310
▼ 22% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 744,473
▼ 17% 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 € 3.2 million.
People and assets in 2025
58
▲ 4.2 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 3.2 million
▲ 13% vs 2024
€ 55,000 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.
€ 63,197
▼ 39% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 1.4 million
▲ 7% vs 2024
€ 694,527 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 2 years.
€ 1.4 million
▲ 16% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 56 days on average.
€ 492,662
▼ 15% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | - | € 13,012,633 | € 13,548,921 | € 13,464,719 | ▼ 1% |
| Gross margin | € 3,470,146 | - | - | - | |
| Profit after taxes | € 709,009 | € 738,089 | € 704,457 | € 546,310 | ▼ 22% |
| Equity | € 3,735,772 | € 4,048,861 | € 2,753,318 | € 3,916,946 | ▲ 42% |
| Total debts | € 3,158,073 | € 2,481,529 | € 4,828,726 | € 4,397,454 | ▼ 9% |
| Cash | € 976,701 | € 683,614 | € 892,789 | € 744,473 | ▼ 17% |
| Land & buildings | € 326,019 | - | - | - | |
| Retained profit | € 3,674,272 | € 3,987,361 | € 2,691,818 | € 3,152,479 | ▲ 17% |
| Dividend | € 425,000 | € 425,000 | € 2,000,000 | € 0 | ▼ 100% |
| Bank debt | € 1,010,681 | € 780,320 | € 1,284,140 | € 1,368,137 | ▲ 7% |
| Balance sheet total | € 6,893,845 | € 6,530,391 | € 7,582,044 | € 8,314,400 | ▲ 10% |
| Employees (FTE) | 47.3 | 49.7 | 53.8 | 58 | ▲ 4.2 |
Key figures of UNICUM TRADE BOTANICALS, 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 UNICUM TRADE BOTANICALS?
What happened at UNICUM TRADE BOTANICALS in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Emaxis BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Invale NV stepped down as director. NBB
- UNU VOF stepped down as director. NBB
- Foxfin BV stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 546,310 (▼ 22% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Emaxis BV became a director. NBB
- Jan Cassiman BV stepped down as director. NBB
- New establishment in Lier. KBO
In short
From € 709,009 profit in 2022 to € 546,310 profit in 2025.
Paid € 928,398 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 738,089 profit.
On average € 73,400 of value added per employee in 2022.
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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 Karga, INVALE comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
UNICUM TRADE BOTANICALSThe shares are held by Karga (99.9%) and INVALE (58.3%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Barbara De Saedeleer
Also active at: RECTICEL, T.DIFFUSION, S.A. Laboratoires Pharmaceutiques Trenker, BEAULIEU INTERNATIONAL GROUP, ROBINWOOD, B.I.G COORDINATION CENTER, ORSI ACADEMY, KOLMONT HOLDING +2 more
· until 2027
Managing director · represented by Francis De Schepper
Also active at: F.L. VANDRIESSCHE EN C, Scaldis Stevedoring Cy. Ltd., ENTAGRI, Feka, Crossport Immo, ANKER, Limago, CONSTRUCTIE EN PROMOTIE VAN IMMOBILIEN +10 more
since 2025 · until 2029
Director · represented by Bart Deckers
Also active at: Etablissementen Armand Op De Beeck Boomkwekerijen, ELNOR MOTORS, STOFFELS TRADING, APS Holding, ELNOR HOLDING, Epacco Holding, PETRAEA, EPACCO +1 more
· until 2029
· until 2025
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Joseph Van Instraat 21
2500 Lier
Joseph Van Instraat 18
2500 Lier
Active since 14 December 1989
Ondernemersstraat 7
2500 Lier
Active since 24 February 2020
Joseph Van Instraat 27
2500 Lier
Active since 1 January 2024
Who else lives here?
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Details
- Company number
- 0438.830.572
- VAT number
- BE 0438.830.572
- Registered office
- Joseph Van Instraat 21, 2500 Lier
- Names & denominations
- UNICUM TRADE BOTANICALS · U.T.B.
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 2 November 1989
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 2 Dec 2025
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