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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.
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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 62 % of short-term debt in 2024; threshold 65 %.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 22.8 to 20.
Financials
Financial year 2024
Food Finesse from Antwerpen, company number BE0445840506, closed financial year 2024 with a result of € 2,576 after tax. For that financial year Food Finesse recorded a gross margin of € 857,996 and equity of € 81,046. Compared with financial year 2023, the result moved from € 1,974 to € 2,576. 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 August 29, 2025.
€ 81,046
▲ 3% vs 2023
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 2,576
▲ 31% vs 2023
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 70,717
▼ 19% vs 2023
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Stays in the company
No dividend for 2024. Retained profit grew to € 19,046.
People and assets in 2024
20
▼ 1.7 vs 2023
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 773,414
▼ 9% vs 2023
€ 38,700 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.
€ 61,657
▲ 3% vs 2023
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2024
None
No bank loans on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 191,205
▼ 20% vs 2023
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 98,802
▼ 22% vs 2023
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Change 2023 → 2024 | |
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| Gross margin | € 672,468 | € 819,457 | € 921,985 | € 857,996 | ▼ 7% |
| Profit after taxes | € 114,817 | € 32,701 | € 1,974 | € 2,576 | ▲ 31% |
| Equity | € 43,795 | € 76,496 | € 78,470 | € 81,046 | ▲ 3% |
| Total debts | € 447,490 | € 506,888 | € 533,569 | € 483,914 | ▼ 9% |
| Cash | € 86,537 | € 102,461 | € 87,463 | € 70,717 | ▼ 19% |
| Retained profit | € -18,205 | € 14,496 | € 16,470 | € 19,046 | ▲ 16% |
| Balance sheet total | € 491,286 | € 583,384 | € 612,039 | € 564,960 | ▼ 8% |
| Employees (FTE) | 16.5 | 22.8 | 21.7 | 20 | ▼ 1.7 |
Key figures of Food Finesse, fiscal years 2021 to 2024, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.The annual account for fiscal year 2025 has not been filed yet; it was expected before 31 July 2026.
What happened to Food Finesse?
What happened at Food Finesse in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2024: profit of € 2,576 (▲ 31% vs 2023). filed late Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Waasmunster. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 114,817 profit in 2021 to € 2,576 profit in 2024.
Paid € 9,301 in corporate taxes since 2021.
Best year ever: 2021, with € 114,817 profit.
On average € 42,900 of value added per employee in 2024.
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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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NMBS 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left ▼ 80%
bpost 18 May 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left from loss to profit
Management
Behind Food Finesse are Patrick Van Den Houdt and Willy Van Den Houdt.
Directors
According to the 2024 annual accounts
Patrick Van Den Houdt
Managing director
Willy Van Den Houdt
Director
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Brusselstraat 51
2018 Antwerpen
Heidekapelstraat 32
9250 Waasmunster
Active since 9 January 1992
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 3 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0445.840.506
- VAT number
- BE 0445.840.506
- Registered office
- Brusselstraat 51, 2018 Antwerpen
- Names & denominations
- Food Finesse
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 3 December 1991
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