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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 24.6 to 20.6.
Financials
Financial year 2025
CHOCOLATE WORLD from Antwerpen, company number BE0443628906, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 833,705 after tax. For that financial year CHOCOLATE WORLD recorded revenue of € 12.5 million and equity of € 2.8 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 467,705 to € 833,705. 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 December 18, 2025.
€ 2.8 million
▲ 11% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 833,705
▲ 78% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 230,128
▼ 68% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 550,000 paid out
66 % of the profit went to the shareholders, mostly to C.W. Belgium BV (100 % of the shares). That is where the money ends up.
People and assets in 2025
20.6
▼ 1.8 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.4 million
▼ 4% vs 2024
€ 69,500 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.
€ 26,280
▼ 33% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 3 million
▲ € 2.9 million vs 2024
€ 20,245 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 4 years.
€ 806,763
▼ 4% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 30 days on average.
€ 200,240
▼ 15% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | - | € 12,103,901 | € 11,637,675 | € 12,460,231 | ▲ 7% |
| Gross margin | € 2,904,626 | - | - | - | |
| Profit after taxes | € 1,082,316 | € 73,792 | € 467,705 | € 833,705 | ▲ 78% |
| Equity | € 1,999,171 | € 2,072,964 | € 2,540,669 | € 2,814,543 | ▲ 11% |
| Total debts | € 3,301,356 | € 3,254,852 | € 2,957,602 | € 6,421,762 | ▲ 117% |
| Cash | € 717,164 | € 340,574 | € 726,783 | € 230,128 | ▼ 68% |
| Retained profit | € 1,937,198 | € 2,010,990 | € 2,478,695 | € 2,752,570 | ▲ 11% |
| Dividend | € 800,000 | € 0 | € 0 | € 550,000 | |
| Bank debt | € 259,406 | € 220,004 | € 101,669 | € 3,017,784 | ▲ € 2.9 million |
| Balance sheet total | € 5,300,527 | € 5,327,816 | € 5,498,271 | € 9,236,306 | ▲ 68% |
| Employees (FTE) | 22 | 24.6 | 22.4 | 20.6 | ▼ 1.8 |
Key figures of CHOCOLATE WORLD, fiscal years 2022 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2026) expected before 30 January 2027.
What happened to CHOCOLATE WORLD?
What happened at CHOCOLATE WORLD in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Farffetched BV stepped down as director. NBB
- VLS Chocolate BV stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 833,705 (▲ 78% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Farffetched BV became a director. NBB
- VLS Chocolate BV became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Antwerpen. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 1.1 million profit in 2022 to € 833,705 profit in 2025.
Paid € 408,293 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 1.1 million profit.
On average € 132,000 of value added per employee in 2022.
Management
The shares are held by C.W. Belgium BV (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Managing director · represented by Verbeke JEAN-ERIK
Also active at: CW TECHNIEK, C.W. Belgium
since 2025 · until 2031
Managing director · represented by Adriaan Verbeke
Also active at: CW TECHNIEK, C.W. Belgium
since 2024 · until 2030
Shareholders
100%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Smallandlaan 4 box 2
2660 Antwerpen
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Details
- Company number
- 0443.628.906
- VAT number
- BE 0443.628.906
- Registered office
- Smallandlaan 4 bus 2, 2660 Antwerpen
- Names & denominations
- CHOCOLATE WORLD
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 4 March 1991
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 1 Jan 2001
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