Financials
Financial year 2025
PELCKMANS UITGEVERS from Kalmthout, company number BE0444548723, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 4 million after tax. For that financial year PELCKMANS UITGEVERS recorded revenue of € 42 million and equity of € 10 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 2.7 million to € 4 million. Profitable, and profit is growing. 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 June 19, 2026.
€ 10 million
▲ 13% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 4 million
▲ 46% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 1.2 million
▼ 70% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 2.8 million paid out
71 % of the profit went to the shareholders, mostly to Amusing ourselves BV (100 % of the shares). That is where the money ends up.
People and assets in 2025
93.5
▲ 3.4 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 7.8 million
▲ 6% vs 2024
€ 83,100 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.
€ 748,918
▼ 3% 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.
€ 2.3 million
▼ 16% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 29 days on average.
€ 855,623
▼ 23% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 35,381,331 | € 39,367,392 | € 42,142,112 | € 42,031,419 | |
| Profit after taxes | € 2,364,137 | € 3,855,798 | € 2,725,961 | € 3,970,690 | ▲ 46% |
| Equity | € 8,265,537 | € 7,821,335 | € 8,797,295 | € 9,967,985 | ▲ 13% |
| Total debts | € 8,821,366 | € 11,145,297 | € 11,892,994 | € 12,174,481 | ▲ 2% |
| Cash | € 4,307,348 | € 734,098 | € 4,121,616 | € 1,217,624 | ▼ 70% |
| Retained profit | € 8,014,568 | € 7,570,366 | € 8,546,327 | € 9,717,017 | ▲ 14% |
| Dividend | € 1,400,000 | € 4,300,000 | € 1,750,000 | € 2,800,000 | ▲ 60% |
| Balance sheet total | € 17,086,903 | € 18,966,632 | € 20,690,289 | € 22,142,467 | ▲ 7% |
| Employees (FTE) | 93.8 | 89.7 | 90.1 | 93.5 | ▲ 3.4 |
Key figures of PELCKMANS UITGEVERS, 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 PELCKMANS UITGEVERS?
What happened at PELCKMANS UITGEVERS in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Amusing ourselves BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Archiboo NV stepped down as director. NBB
- Condor BV stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 4 million (▲ 46% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Amusing ourselves BV became a director. NBB
- Archiboo NV became a director. NBB
- Condor BV became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Mechelen. KBO
In short
From € 2.4 million profit in 2022 to € 4 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 3.8 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 4 million profit.
Paid out € 10.3 million in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
The shares are held by Amusing ourselves BV (99.9%). It owns 13.8% of Boektopia itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Managing director · represented by Thom Pelckmans
Also active at: THEORIA, MEDIO, YoYo Books Belgium, All About Books, Casinoplein 10, FIBRE MOOD, SIOUX, NOTTEBOHMHOEVE +6 more
since 2023 · until 2029
Director · represented by Valérie Van Hove
since 2023 · until 2029
Director · represented by Peter Watteeuw
since 2023 · until 2029
Shareholders
99.9%
Participations
13.8%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Brasschaatsteenweg (C) 308
2920 Kalmthout
Platteberg 8
9000 Gent
Active since 30 December 2013
Mechelsesteenweg 271 box 11.1
2018 Antwerpen
Active since 1 January 2016
Ontvoeringsplein 12
2800 Mechelen
Active since 1 January 2022
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 4 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0444.548.723
- VAT number
- BE 0444.548.723
- Registered office
- Brasschaatsteenweg (C) 308, 2920 Kalmthout
- Names & denominations
- PELCKMANS UITGEVERS
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 28 June 1991
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 1 Jan 2001
- Contact
- pelckmans.be
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