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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 4.8 to 3.3.
Financials
Financial year 2025
SOBEMAX from Fernelmont, company number BE0440800662, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 336,265 after tax. For that financial year SOBEMAX recorded revenue of € 61.2 million and equity of € 2.2 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 238,354 to € 336,265. Profitable, and profit is growing. The buffer is growing. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on September 14, 2026.
€ 2.2 million
▲ 20% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 336,265
▲ 41% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 255,380
▼ 40% 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 € 2.1 million.
People and assets in 2025
3.3
▼ 0.7 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 343,180
▲ 19% vs 2024
€ 104,000 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.
€ 616,942
▼ 18% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 2.6 million
▲ 2% vs 2024
€ 212,693 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 10 years.
€ 2.1 million
▲ 8% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 13 days on average.
€ 95,763
▲ 102% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 49,144,624 | € 49,516,899 | € 48,722,373 | € 61,163,839 | ▲ 26% |
| Profit after taxes | € 55,034 | € 210,314 | € 238,354 | € 336,265 | ▲ 41% |
| Equity | € 1,301,505 | € 1,511,819 | € 1,797,139 | € 2,153,937 | ▲ 20% |
| Total debts | € 3,747,509 | € 4,036,241 | € 4,553,475 | € 4,824,958 | ▲ 6% |
| Cash | € 397,541 | € 254,167 | € 422,714 | € 255,380 | ▼ 40% |
| Land & buildings | € 379,958 | € 353,504 | € 327,051 | € 300,598 | ▼ 8% |
| Retained profit | € 1,239,505 | € 1,449,819 | € 1,735,139 | € 2,091,937 | ▲ 21% |
| Bank debt | € 1,559,429 | € 2,318,953 | € 2,545,284 | € 2,607,877 | ▲ 2% |
| Balance sheet total | € 5,699,419 | € 6,198,465 | € 7,041,647 | € 7,644,303 | ▲ 9% |
| Employees (FTE) | 5.8 | 4.8 | 4 | 3.3 | ▼ 0.7 |
Key figures of SOBEMAX, 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 SOBEMAX?
What happened at SOBEMAX in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 336,265 (▲ 41% vs 2024). filed late Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Fernelmont. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 55,034 profit in 2022 to € 336,265 profit in 2025.
Paid € 324,708 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 336,265 profit.
Pays suppliers within 13 days on average.
Management
The stake of SOBEMAX HOLDING comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
SOBEMAXBehind SOBEMAX is Pierre MAILLEUX. The shares are held by SOBEMAX HOLDING.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Shareholders
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Rue Neuve-Ferme, March. 4
5380 Fernelmont
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0440.800.662
- VAT number
- BE 0440.800.662
- Registered office
- Rue Neuve-Ferme, March. 4, 5380 Fernelmont
- Names & denominations
- SOBEMAX
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 7 June 1990
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 19 Dec 2025
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