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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 48 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
DRUKKERIJ ZWARTOPWIT from Herenthout, company number BE0444719264, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 254,189 after tax. For that financial year DRUKKERIJ ZWARTOPWIT recorded revenue of € 18.4 million and equity of € 1.6 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 858,582 to € 254,189. The company is profitable. The company holds a healthy buffer. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on July 7, 2026.
€ 1.6 million
▼ 25% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 254,189
▼ 70% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 751,845
▼ 7% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 800,000 paid out
More than the year’s profit went to the shareholders; reserves fell.
People and assets in 2025
86.3
▼ 0.6 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 7.1 million
▲ 2% vs 2024
€ 82,500 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.
€ 595,290
▲ 61% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 4.1 million
▼ 9% vs 2024
€ 1.1 million is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 3 years.
€ 945,509
▲ 33% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 35 days on average.
€ 1 million
▲ 23% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 17,875,926 | € 18,123,192 | € 20,354,894 | € 18,448,085 | ▼ 9% |
| Profit after taxes | € 1,250,042 | € 675,281 | € 858,582 | € 254,189 | ▼ 70% |
| Equity | € 3,225,780 | € 1,701,061 | € 2,144,608 | € 1,598,797 | ▼ 25% |
| Total debts | € 4,469,861 | € 6,770,893 | € 6,338,848 | € 6,165,548 | ▼ 3% |
| Cash | € 683,260 | € 670,133 | € 807,496 | € 751,845 | ▼ 7% |
| Land & buildings | € 1,939,589 | € 1,787,464 | € 1,622,038 | € 1,436,889 | ▼ 11% |
| Retained profit | € 2,367,487 | € 842,768 | € 1,286,314 | € 740,504 | ▼ 42% |
| Dividend | € 1,350,000 | € 2,200,000 | € 300,000 | € 800,000 | ▲ 167% |
| Bank debt | € 2,886,363 | € 5,007,844 | € 4,443,358 | € 4,059,626 | ▼ 9% |
| Balance sheet total | € 7,735,642 | € 8,592,748 | € 8,575,749 | € 7,828,138 | ▼ 9% |
| Employees (FTE) | 86.2 | 88.8 | 86.9 | 86.3 | ▼ 0.6 |
Key figures of DRUKKERIJ ZWARTOPWIT, 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 DRUKKERIJ ZWARTOPWIT?
What happened at DRUKKERIJ ZWARTOPWIT in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- ZwartOpWit Groep NV stepped down as director. NBB
- RatandMouse BV stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 254,189 (▼ 70% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- ZwartOpWit Groep NV became a director. NBB
- RatandMouse BV became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Herenthout. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 1.3 million profit in 2022 to € 254,189 profit in 2025.
Paid € 822,592 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 1.3 million profit.
Paid out € 4.7 million in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
The stake of ZwartOpWit Groep comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
DRUKKERIJ ZWARTOPWITThe shares are held by ZwartOpWit Groep (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Martijn Willaert
since 2022 · until 2028
since 2022 · until 2028
Shareholders
100%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Grensstraat 9
2270 Herenthout
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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Details
- Company number
- 0444.719.264
- VAT number
- BE 0444.719.264
- Registered office
- Grensstraat 9, 2270 Herenthout
- Names & denominations
- DRUKKERIJ ZWARTOPWIT
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 12 July 1991
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- Active · Active since 21 Oct 2026
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