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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 36 % of short-term debt in 2024; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2024
DRINK FACTORY from Mons, company number BE0440015952, closed financial year 2024 with a result of € 2,273 after tax. For that financial year DRINK FACTORY recorded a gross margin of € 784,439 and equity of € 377,445. Compared with financial year 2023, the result moved from € 16,077 to € 2,273. The company is profitable. The buffer is growing. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on September 30, 2025.
€ 377,445
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 2,273
▼ 86% vs 2023
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 87,443
▲ 6% vs 2023
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Stays in the company
No dividend for 2024. Retained profit grew to € 259,972.
People and assets in 2024
12
▲ 1 vs 2023
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 536,610
▲ 19% vs 2023
€ 44,700 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.
€ 57,115
▼ 10% vs 2023
Of which on lease € 15,180.
Debts at end 2024
€ 1.2 million
▼ 1% vs 2023
€ 178,700 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 7 years.
€ 217,668
▼ 57% vs 2023
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 81,232
▲ 82% vs 2023
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Change 2023 → 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 459,489 | € 517,773 | € 615,746 | € 784,439 | ▲ 27% |
| Profit after taxes | € 125,376 | € 75,225 | € 16,077 | € 2,273 | ▼ 86% |
| Equity | € 286,204 | € 360,651 | € 375,950 | € 377,445 | |
| Total debts | € 986,148 | € 911,259 | € 2,574,355 | € 2,239,562 | ▼ 13% |
| Cash | € 24,082 | € 42,886 | € 82,516 | € 87,443 | ▲ 6% |
| Land & buildings | € 386,801 | € 374,156 | € 361,511 | € 462,215 | ▲ 28% |
| Retained profit | € 168,731 | € 243,178 | € 258,477 | € 259,972 | ▲ 1% |
| Bank debt | € 232,252 | € 164,778 | € 1,198,358 | € 1,187,065 | ▼ 1% |
| Balance sheet total | € 1,281,118 | € 1,280,093 | € 2,957,905 | € 2,624,023 | ▼ 11% |
| Employees (FTE) | 6.9 | 8 | 11 | 12 | ▲ 1 |
Key figures of DRINK FACTORY, fiscal years 2021 to 2024, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.The annual account for fiscal year 2025 has not been filed yet; it was expected before 31 July 2026.
What happened to DRINK FACTORY?
What happened at DRINK FACTORY in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- JEAN-LOUIS FOUREZ stepped down as director. NBB
- GROUPE FOUREZ stepped down as director. NBB
- BRIGITTE FOUREZ stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2024: profit of € 2,273 (▼ 86% vs 2023). filed late Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Binche. KBO
- JEAN-LOUIS FOUREZ became a director. NBB
- GROUPE FOUREZ became a director. NBB
- BRIGITTE FOUREZ became a director. NBB
In short
From € 125,376 profit in 2021 to € 2,273 profit in 2024.
Paid € 16,201 in corporate taxes since 2021.
Best year ever: 2021, with € 125,376 profit.
On average € 65,400 of value added per employee in 2024.
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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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Management
The stake of GROUPE FOUREZ comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
DRINK FACTORYThe shares are held by GROUPE FOUREZ (99.6%).
Directors
According to the 2024 annual accounts
JEAN-LOUIS FOUREZ
Director
since 2022 · until 2028
Director · represented by ANTOINE MARIN
Also active at: Etablissements Fourez, ETABLISSEMENTS PAUL DECRU
since 2022 · until 2028
since 2022 · until 2028
Shareholders
99.6%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Chaussée du Roeulx 95
7000 Mons
Avenue Léopold III(BR) 14
7130 Binche
Active since 1 March 2023
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0440.015.952
- VAT number
- BE 0440.015.952
- Registered office
- Chaussée du Roeulx 95, 7000 Mons
- Names & denominations
- DRINK FACTORY
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 25 January 1990
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 29 Dec 2025
- Activities · NACE
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