What does Pain perdu do?

Pain perdu is a hospitality business in Gent. Private Limited, started on 1 May 1991, 1 establishment.

What is the address of Pain perdu?

The registered office of Pain perdu is located at Walpoortstraat 9, 9000 Gent.

Is Pain perdu still active?

Yes. According to the CBE (31 October 2026) Pain perdu is active, legal situation “Normale toestand”, started on 1 May 1991.

Is Pain perdu registered on Peppol?

Yes, Pain perdu is registered on the Peppol network with ID 0208:0444037591.

What is the enterprise number of Pain perdu?

The enterprise number of Pain perdu is BE0444037591.

When was Pain perdu founded?

Pain perdu was founded on 1 May 1991.

Who are the directors of Pain perdu?

According to the 2025 annual accounts, the directors of Pain perdu are: Cleuren BV.

Is Pain perdu a reliable company?

Databakkes does not pass judgement; this is what the sources say: Active according to the CBE since 1 May 1991; 5 annual accounts filed, latest fiscal year 2025; 1 directors known from the annual account.

How much profit did Pain perdu make in 2025?

Pain perdu posted a profit after taxes of € 75,216 in financial year 2025.

What is the revenue of Pain perdu?

As a small company, Pain perdu is not required to publish revenue in its annual accounts. In financial year 2025, its added value was € 581,081.

How much does an employee at Pain perdu earn?

The average wage cost per full-time employee at Pain perdu was € 54,000 in 2025: staff costs of € 459,246 for 8.5 FTE, according to the annual account at the National Bank. That is the employer's cost, not net pay.

How many employees does Pain perdu have?

According to the 2025 annual accounts, Pain perdu has 8.5 full-time equivalents (FTE).

Pain perdu (Private Limited) - Gent - BE0444037591

Dossier Pain perdu, printed on 31 October 2026 from databakkes.be/en/0444037591/pain-perdu. Sources: CBE, National Bank of Belgium, Belgian Official Gazette.

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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.

Shrinking team NBB

FTE fell two years in a row, from 17.8 to 8.5.

Financials

Financial year 2025

Pain perdu from Gent, company number BE0444037591, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 75,216 after tax. For that financial year Pain perdu recorded a gross margin of € 581,081 and equity of € 22,841. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -15,440 to € 75,216. 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 June 18, 2026.

What it is worth Growing

€ 22,841

▲ 200% vs 2024

Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.

Profit Growing

€ 75,216

▲ still € 15,440 loss in 2024

Profit after tax over the fiscal year.

Cash in the bank

€ 94,704

▲ 44% vs 2024

Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.

Where the profit goes Pays out

€ 60,000 paid out

80 % of the profit went to the shareholders, mostly to Cleuren (100 % of the shares). That is where the money ends up.

People and assets in 2025

Full-time equivalents

8.5

▼ 3.9 vs 2024

Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.

Wage cost

€ 459,246

▼ 9% vs 2024

€ 54,000 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.

Vehicles and equipment

€ 3,085

▼ 57% vs 2024

Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.

Debts at end 2025

Bank debt

None

No bank loans on the last day of the fiscal year.

Owed to suppliers

€ 53,645

▼ 28% vs 2024

Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.

Taxes and wages

€ 66,123

▼ 2% vs 2024

Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.

Key figures per fiscal year Download key figures (CSV)
	2022	2023	2024	2025	Change 2024 → 2025
Gross margin	€ 500,887 Gross margin 2022: € 500,887 First fiscal year in the series	€ 504,713 Gross margin 2023: € 504,713 ▲ 1% vs 2022 (€ 500,887) Favourable step	€ 518,052 Gross margin 2024: € 518,052 ▲ 3% vs 2023 (€ 504,713) Favourable step	€ 581,081 Gross margin 2025: € 581,081 ▲ 12% vs 2024 (€ 518,052) Favourable step	▲ 12%
Profit after taxes	€ 48,047 Profit after taxes 2022: € 48,047 First fiscal year in the series	€ 8,392 Profit after taxes 2023: € 8,392 ▼ 83% vs 2022 (€ 48,047) Unfavourable step	€ -15,440 Profit after taxes 2024: € -15,440 ▼ € 23,832 vs 2023 (€ 8,392) Unfavourable step	€ 75,216 Profit after taxes 2025: € 75,216 ▲ € 90,657 vs 2024 (€ -15,440) Favourable step	▲ € 90,657
Equity	€ 62,173 Equity 2022: € 62,173 First fiscal year in the series	€ 23,065 Equity 2023: € 23,065 ▼ 63% vs 2022 (€ 62,173) Unfavourable step	€ 7,625 Equity 2024: € 7,625 ▼ 67% vs 2023 (€ 23,065) Unfavourable step	€ 22,841 Equity 2025: € 22,841 ▲ 200% vs 2024 (€ 7,625) Favourable step	▲ 200%
Total debts	€ 186,258 Total debts 2022: € 186,258 First fiscal year in the series	€ 196,072 Total debts 2023: € 196,072 ▲ 5% vs 2022 (€ 186,258) Unfavourable step	€ 181,831 Total debts 2024: € 181,831 ▼ 7% vs 2023 (€ 196,072) Favourable step	€ 181,784 Total debts 2025: € 181,784 Unchanged (€ 181,831) Favourable step
Cash	€ 70,591 Cash 2022: € 70,591 First fiscal year in the series	€ 109,996 Cash 2023: € 109,996 ▲ 56% vs 2022 (€ 70,591) Favourable step	€ 65,709 Cash 2024: € 65,709 ▼ 40% vs 2023 (€ 109,996) Unfavourable step	€ 94,704 Cash 2025: € 94,704 ▲ 44% vs 2024 (€ 65,709) Favourable step	▲ 44%
Land & buildings	€ 8,407 Land & buildings 2022: € 8,407 First fiscal year in the series	€ 9,077 Land & buildings 2023: € 9,077 ▲ 8% vs 2022 (€ 8,407) Unchanged	€ 13,714 Land & buildings 2024: € 13,714 ▲ 51% vs 2023 (€ 9,077) Unchanged	€ 12,109 Land & buildings 2025: € 12,109 ▼ 12% vs 2024 (€ 13,714) Unchanged	▼ 12%
Retained profit	€ 39,550 Retained profit 2022: € 39,550 First fiscal year in the series	€ 442 Retained profit 2023: € 442 ▼ 99% vs 2022 (€ 39,550) Unfavourable step	€ -14,998 Retained profit 2024: € -14,998 ▼ € 15,440 vs 2023 (€ 442) Unfavourable step	€ 218 Retained profit 2025: € 218 ▲ € 15,216 vs 2024 (€ -14,998) Favourable step	▲ € 15,216
Dividend	€ 78,000 Dividend 2022: € 78,000 First fiscal year in the series	€ 47,500 Dividend 2023: € 47,500 ▼ 39% vs 2022 (€ 78,000) Unchanged	€ 0 Dividend 2024: € 0 ▼ 100% vs 2023 (€ 47,500) Unchanged	€ 60,000 Dividend 2025: € 60,000 Unchanged (€ 0) Unchanged
Balance sheet total	€ 248,431 Balance sheet total 2022: € 248,431 First fiscal year in the series	€ 219,137 Balance sheet total 2023: € 219,137 ▼ 12% vs 2022 (€ 248,431) Unchanged	€ 189,456 Balance sheet total 2024: € 189,456 ▼ 14% vs 2023 (€ 219,137) Unchanged	€ 204,625 Balance sheet total 2025: € 204,625 ▲ 8% vs 2024 (€ 189,456) Unchanged	▲ 8%
Employees (FTE)	17.7 Employees (FTE) 2022: 17.7 First fiscal year in the series	17.8 Employees (FTE) 2023: 17.8 ▲ 0.1 vs 2022 (17.7) Unchanged	12.4 Employees (FTE) 2024: 12.4 ▼ 5.4 vs 2023 (17.8) Unchanged	8.5 Employees (FTE) 2025: 8.5 ▼ 3.9 vs 2024 (12.4) Unchanged	▼ 3.9

Key figures of Pain perdu, 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 Pain perdu?

What happened at Pain perdu in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:

Jun 18, 2026 New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 75,216. Source: NBB ↗
2019 Cleuren BV became a director. NBB
Jul 10, 1991 New establishment in Gent. KBO
May 1, 1991 Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO

In short

From € 48,047 profit in 2022 to € 75,216 profit in 2025.

Paid € 58,399 in corporate taxes since 2022.

Best year ever: 2025, with € 75,216 profit.

On average € 68,400 of value added per employee in 2025.

Original PDFs at the National Bank ↗

Management

Cleuren 100%

The stake of Cleuren comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.

Pain perdu

Behind Pain perdu is Cleuren BV. The shares are held by Cleuren (100%).

Directors

According to the 2025 annual accounts

Cleuren BV

Director · represented by Cleuren Eva

since 2019

Shareholders

Cleuren

100%

Participations

No participations in other companies reported.

Establishments

Establishment units

Physical locations of this company

Registered office

Walpoortstraat 9

9000 Gent

Who else lives here?

A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 2 companies are registered at this address.

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Cleuren same network

€ 21,364 gross margin · 2025

Vereniging van mede-eigenaars van het gebouw te Gent, Walpoortstraat 9

What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.

Details

Company number

0444.037.591

VAT number

BE 0444.037.591

Registered office

Walpoortstraat 9, 9000 Gent

Names & denominations

Pain perdu

Enterprise type

Rechtspersoon

Legal form

Private limited company

Legal situation

Normale toestand

Start date

1 May 1991

Peppol

Active · Active since 25 Nov 2025

Activities · NACE

Activiteiten van eetgelegenheden met beperkte bediening, muv mobiele eetgelegenheden

Fastfoodzaken, snackbars, frituren en dergelijke

Activiteiten van eetgelegenheden met volledige bediening

Detailhandel in brood-, banketbakkerswerk en suikerwerk

Eetgelegenheden met beperkte bediening

Eetgelegenheden met volledige bediening

Cateringdiensten op contractbasis en overige diensten in verband met maaltijden

Detailhandel in brood en banketbakkerswerk (koude bakkers)

View on CBE Public ↗ Annual accounts (NBB) ↗

Pain perdu

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What happened to Pain perdu?

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