Financials
Financial year 2025
HOUBEN from Antwerpen, company number BE0442876165, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 168,809 after tax. For that financial year HOUBEN recorded a gross margin of € 677,661 and equity of € 1.8 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 248,323 to € 168,809. 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 August 14, 2026.
€ 1.8 million
▲ 11% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 168,809
▼ 32% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 1.3 million
▲ 38% 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 € 1.7 million.
People and assets in 2025
1.3
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 224,192
▲ 1% vs 2024
€ 172,500 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.
€ 80,785
▼ 35% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 424,998
▼ 14% vs 2024
€ 72,674 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 6 years.
€ 331,698
▼ 14% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 94,126
▼ 4% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 643,166 | € 803,989 | € 719,839 | € 677,661 | ▼ 6% |
| Profit after taxes | € 235,836 | € 316,369 | € 248,323 | € 168,809 | ▼ 32% |
| Equity | € 1,293,161 | € 1,456,805 | € 1,601,909 | € 1,770,719 | ▲ 11% |
| Total debts | € 1,199,487 | € 1,118,370 | € 1,045,592 | € 896,494 | ▼ 14% |
| Cash | € 923,495 | € 1,325,526 | € 945,108 | € 1,305,030 | ▲ 38% |
| Land & buildings | € 581,098 | € 564,870 | € 548,643 | € 532,415 | ▼ 3% |
| Retained profit | € 1,268,371 | € 1,432,016 | € 1,577,120 | € 1,745,929 | ▲ 11% |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 152,725 | € 103,219 | € 0 | ▼ 100% |
| Bank debt | € 347,407 | € 564,338 | € 495,650 | € 424,998 | ▼ 14% |
| Balance sheet total | € 2,492,648 | € 2,575,175 | € 2,647,501 | € 2,667,213 | ▲ 1% |
| Employees (FTE) | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.3 |
Key figures of HOUBEN, 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 HOUBEN?
What happened at HOUBEN in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 168,809 (▼ 32% vs 2024). filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Sylvie Vanhove became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Antwerpen. KBO
- Henri Houben became a director. NBB
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 235,836 profit in 2022 to € 168,809 profit in 2025.
Paid € 412,980 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 316,369 profit.
On average € 521,300 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
Behind HOUBEN are Sylvie Vanhove and Henri Houben. Henri Houben is also behind G Z A R.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Sylvie Vanhove
Director
since 2019
since 1990
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Maria-Theresialei 17-19
2018 Antwerpen
Maria-Theresialei 17 1
2018 Antwerpen
Active since 25 June 1991
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0442.876.165
- VAT number
- BE 0442.876.165
- Registered office
- Maria-Theresialei 17-19, 2018 Antwerpen
- Names & denominations
- HOUBEN
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 31 December 1990
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 22 Dec 2025
- Activities · NACE
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