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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 61 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
MARER from Bastogne, company number BE0440040696, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 515,546 after tax. For that financial year MARER recorded revenue of € 21.5 million and equity of € 284,620. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 419,002 to € 515,546. Profitable, and profit is growing. 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 August 28, 2025.
€ 284,620
▲ € 515,546 vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 515,546
▲ 23% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 2 million
▲ 66% 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 € 222,620.
People and assets in 2025
29.1
▲ 1.8 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.3 million
▲ 4% vs 2024
€ 44,200 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.
€ 32,419
▲ 92% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 5.2 million
▲ 11% vs 2024
€ 553,415 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 9 years.
€ 2.2 million
▲ 24% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 40 days on average.
€ 364,155
▲ 17% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | - | € 17,204,712 | € 19,234,992 | € 21,539,832 | ▲ 12% |
| Gross margin | € 2,202,947 | - | - | - | |
| Profit after taxes | € -670,032 | € 344,371 | € 419,002 | € 515,546 | ▲ 23% |
| Equity | € -994,299 | € -649,928 | € -230,926 | € 284,620 | ▲ € 515,546 |
| Total debts | € 7,221,239 | € 7,057,430 | € 6,896,379 | € 8,490,314 | ▲ 23% |
| Cash | € 329,935 | € 862,774 | € 1,180,857 | € 1,954,577 | ▲ 66% |
| Land & buildings | € 3,754,181 | € 3,486,593 | € 3,401,378 | € 3,768,186 | ▲ 11% |
| Retained profit | € -1,056,299 | € -711,928 | € -292,926 | € 222,620 | ▲ € 515,546 |
| Bank debt | € 5,259,035 | € 4,950,487 | € 4,641,771 | € 5,152,927 | ▲ 11% |
| Balance sheet total | € 6,226,940 | € 6,407,502 | € 6,665,453 | € 8,774,934 | ▲ 32% |
| Employees (FTE) | 28.9 | 28 | 27.3 | 29.1 | ▲ 1.8 |
Key figures of MARER, fiscal years 2022 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.The annual account for fiscal year 2026 has not been filed yet; it was expected before 31 August 2026.
What happened to MARER?
What happened at MARER in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- DISTRI 4 SRL SRL stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 515,546 (▲ 23% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- DISTRI 4 SRL SRL became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Rochefort. KBO
- New establishment in Bastogne. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 670,032 loss in 2022 to € 515,546 profit in 2025.
Paid € 366,336 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 515,546 profit.
On average € 76,200 of value added per employee in 2022.
Management
The stake of Distri4 comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
MARERThe shares are held by Distri4 (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Schnongs CATHERINE
Also active at: ETABLISSEMENTS SCHNONGS
since 2021 · until 2026
Shareholders
100%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Rue de Marche 112-114
6600 Bastogne
Rue de Marche 112
6600 Bastogne
Active since 10 July 1991
Rue de Marche 59
5580 Rochefort
Active since 9 November 2006
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Website
Technologies
Hosting & Email
Email provider
Self-hosted
Hosting
PLANETHOSTER-8 - PlanetHoster, CA
Website info
Features
Security
Details
- Company number
- 0440.040.696
- VAT number
- BE 0440.040.696
- Registered office
- Rue de Marche 112-114, 6600 Bastogne
- Names & denominations
- MARER
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 25 January 1990
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 21 Aug 2025
- Contact
- adbastogne.be
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