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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 55 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Board fully replaced NBB
No director from three years ago is still active according to annual account 2025.
Financials
Financial year 2025
UITGEVERIJ LANNOO from Tielt, company number BE0446201582, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 2.5 million after tax. For that financial year UITGEVERIJ LANNOO recorded revenue of € 47.1 million and equity of € 17 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 1.7 million to € 2.5 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 25, 2026.
€ 17 million
▲ 2% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 2.5 million
▲ 47% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 1 million
▲ 50% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 2.2 million paid out
89 % of the profit went to the shareholders, mostly to Plantijn & Moretus nv (86 % of the shares). That is where the money ends up.
People and assets in 2025
115.2
▲ 1.6 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 11 million
▲ 13% vs 2024
€ 95,700 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.
€ 13,088
▲ 48% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 695,797
▼ 41% vs 2024
€ 454,169 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 2 years.
€ 9.5 million
▲ 9% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 97 days on average.
€ 2.8 million
▲ 20% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 45,002,446 | € 45,445,495 | € 45,225,411 | € 47,137,026 | ▲ 4% |
| Profit after taxes | € 1,500,156 | € 985,447 | € 1,709,814 | € 2,508,175 | ▲ 47% |
| Equity | € 15,011,719 | € 15,712,166 | € 16,671,981 | € 16,955,156 | ▲ 2% |
| Total debts | € 17,598,014 | € 14,489,230 | € 14,375,704 | € 18,988,311 | ▲ 32% |
| Cash | € 2,335,410 | € 1,078,402 | € 683,729 | € 1,027,920 | ▲ 50% |
| Land & buildings | € 3,434,820 | € 3,376,056 | € 3,329,801 | € 3,332,416 | |
| Retained profit | € 14,011,719 | € 14,712,166 | € 15,671,981 | € 15,955,156 | ▲ 2% |
| Dividend | € 625,000 | € 285,000 | € 750,000 | € 2,225,000 | ▲ 197% |
| Bank debt | € 2,452,055 | € 1,793,719 | € 1,179,133 | € 695,797 | ▼ 41% |
| Balance sheet total | € 32,736,975 | € 30,335,900 | € 31,235,180 | € 36,099,503 | ▲ 16% |
| Employees (FTE) | 116.5 | 114.8 | 113.6 | 115.2 | ▲ 1.6 |
Key figures of UITGEVERIJ LANNOO, 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 UITGEVERIJ LANNOO?
What happened at UITGEVERIJ LANNOO in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- DIGIS stepped down as director. NBB
- GENISYS NETWORK stepped down as director. NBB
- PLANTIJN EN MORETUS stepped down as director. NBB
- MARSALA BV stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 2.5 million (▲ 47% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- AXXIS stepped down as director. NBB
- DISCORSI commv stepped down as director. NBB
- COLINAS MANAGEMENT BV stepped down as director. NBB
In short
From € 1.5 million profit in 2022 to € 2.5 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 1.2 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 2.5 million profit.
Paid out € 3.9 million in dividends to the owners in total.
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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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Management
Behind UITGEVERIJ LANNOO is YRJA DANNER. The shares are held by Plantijn & Moretus nv (86.4%) and Familie Lannoo (13.6%). It owns 100% of LANNOO MEULENHOFF and 25% of DISTRIMEDIA itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
YRJA DANNER
Manager
since 2025
Director · represented by Alexander De Bièvre
Also active at: SENTINEL, CIOC Energy, Freeflow Power Solutions
since 2024 · until 2027
Director · represented by Philippe De Vicq
Also active at: Cibo, CAPRICORN ICT ARKIV, INVEST FOR JOBS, Capricorn SCF, Capricorn Digital Growth Fund, Capricorn Fusion China Fund, CAPRICORN HEALTH-TECH FUND
since 2020 · until 2026
Director · represented by Lieven Sercu
since 2023 · until 2026
Director · represented by Nizet Liesbeth
since 2025 · until 2028
since 2022 · until 2025
Director · represented by Bart Becks
since 2025 · until 2028
Director · represented by Hans Willem Cortenraad
since 2023 · until 2026
Chairman of the board · represented by Matthias Lannoo
Also active at: DISTRIMEDIA
since 2025 · until 2028
since 2022 · until 2025
Shareholders
86.4%
Familie Lannoo
13.6%
Participations
LANNOO MEULENHOFF
100%
25%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Kasteelstraat 97
8700 Tielt
Havenlaan 86C box 104A
1000 Brussel
Active since 12 October 1993
Vaartkom 41 box 1.02
3000 Leuven
Active since 1 May 2003
Coupure 88
9000 Gent
Active since 24 June 2015
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Website
Technologies
Hosting & Email
Email provider
Microsoft 365
Hosting
COMBELL-AS, BE
Domain
Domain
lannoo.be
Registered
1996-03-12
Website info
Features
Security
Details
- Company number
- 0446.201.582
- VAT number
- BE 0446.201.582
- Registered office
- Kasteelstraat 97, 8700 Tielt
- Names & denominations
- UITGEVERIJ LANNOO
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 21 December 1991
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 29 May 2026
- Contact
- lannoo.be
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