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Financials
Financial year 2025
Fairtrade Belgium from Elsene, company number BE0441988715, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -1,570 after tax. For that financial year Fairtrade Belgium recorded a gross margin of € 1.8 million and equity of € 872,406. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 51,020 to € -1,570. The company made a loss. The company holds a healthy buffer. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on May 28, 2026.
€ 872,406
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -1,570
▼ still € 51,020 profit in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 806,310
▼ 15% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
People and assets in 2025
19.5
▲ 1.1 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.7 million
▲ 6% vs 2024
€ 87,600 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.
€ 12,643
▼ 12% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
None
No bank loans on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 1.3 million
▼ 9% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 236,847
▼ 1% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 1,466,539 | € 1,643,199 | € 1,697,503 | € 1,790,687 | ▲ 5% |
| Profit after taxes | € 2,533 | € 82,254 | € 51,020 | € -1,570 | ▼ € 52,590 |
| Equity | € 2,750,439 | € 822,956 | € 873,976 | € 872,406 | |
| Total debts | € 1,925,034 | € 3,725,608 | € 3,104,107 | € 2,473,273 | ▼ 20% |
| Cash | € 704,931 | € 424,394 | € 947,531 | € 806,310 | ▼ 15% |
| Retained profit | € 638,178 | € 720,432 | € 771,452 | € 769,882 | |
| Bank debt | € 62,594 | € 31,297 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Balance sheet total | € 4,718,264 | € 4,591,355 | € 4,030,873 | € 3,403,469 | ▼ 16% |
| Employees (FTE) | 17.1 | 16.8 | 18.4 | 19.5 | ▲ 1.1 |
Key figures of Fairtrade Belgium, 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 Fairtrade Belgium?
What happened at Fairtrade Belgium in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Sabine De Veilder stepped down as director. NBB
- Rikolto BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Bruno Cartier d'Yves stepped down as director. NBB
- Teresia Paelinck stepped down as director. NBB
- Dirk Le Roy stepped down as director. NBB
- Marie Delvaux stepped down as director. NBB
- Geert Peetermans stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 1,570 (▼ € 52,590 vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
In short
From € 2,533 profit in 2022 to € 1,570 loss in 2025.
Paid € 3,731 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 82,254 profit.
On average € 91,800 of value added per employee in 2025.
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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
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Chris Claes
since 2024 · until 2028
Marie Delvaux
Director
since 2023 · until 2027
Laurence Tanty
Director
since 2024 · until 2025
Bruno Cartier d'Yves
Director
since 2024 · until 2028
since 2024 · until 2028
since 2025 · until 2028
since 2023 · until 2027
Sabine De Veilder
Director
Also active at: HORTIPLAN, Plan International België, ET GROEP, De Drie Provinciën, SweetCo, Lakelane
since 2025 · until 2029
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Edinburgstraat 26
1050 Elsene
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Details
- Company number
- 0441.988.715
- VAT number
- BE 0441.988.715
- Registered office
- Edinburgstraat 26, 1050 Elsene
- Names & denominations
- Fairtrade Belgium
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Non-profit association
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 6 April 1990
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 27 Mar 2026
- Activities · NACE
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