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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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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 4 to 0.8.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Paul Lootens from Brugge, company number BE0446967189, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 171,420 after tax. For that financial year Paul Lootens recorded a gross margin of € 216,845 and equity of € 1 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 42,620 to € 171,420. 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 July 6, 2026.
€ 1 million
▲ 21% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 171,420
▲ € 128,800 vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 8,046
▲ 79% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Stays in the company
No dividend for 2025. Retained profit grew to € 105,025.
People and assets in 2025
0.8
▼ 1.2 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 54,584
▼ 53% vs 2024
Payroll staff only. What the director pays themselves is already netted into the gross margin and is not shown separately in the accounts.
€ 1,911
▼ 78% 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.
€ 54,115
▼ 80% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 19,293
▲ 29% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 215,514 | € 168,181 | € 96,999 | € 216,845 | ▲ 124% |
| Profit after taxes | € -48,808 | € -72,994 | € 42,620 | € 171,420 | ▲ € 128,800 |
| Equity | € 863,449 | € 790,454 | € 833,075 | € 1,004,495 | ▲ 21% |
| Total debts | € 158,805 | € 249,176 | € 301,583 | € 89,712 | ▼ 70% |
| Cash | € 9,277 | € 13,353 | € 4,505 | € 8,046 | ▲ 79% |
| Retained profit | € -36,021 | € -109,015 | € -66,395 | € 105,025 | ▲ € 171,420 |
| Bank debt | € 42,429 | € 25,603 | € 8,583 | € 0 | ▼ 100% |
| Balance sheet total | € 1,022,254 | € 1,039,631 | € 1,134,657 | € 1,094,207 | ▼ 4% |
| Employees (FTE) | 5.2 | 4 | 2 | 0.8 | ▼ 1.2 |
By gross margin, Paul Lootens ranks 36th of 58 companies with main activity “Groothandel in vlees en vleeswaren, exclusief vlees van gevogelte en van wild” in West Flanders that publish figures (fiscal year 2025).
Key figures of Paul Lootens, 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.
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What happened to Paul Lootens?
What happened at Paul Lootens in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 171,420 (▲ € 128,800 vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Brugge. KBO
- Paul Lootens became a director. NBB
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 48,808 loss in 2022 to € 171,420 profit in 2025.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 171,420 profit.
On average € 48,500 of value added per employee in 2024.
Management
Behind Paul Lootens is Paul Lootens. Paul Lootens is also behind BRUGSE VLEESCENTRALE, Brugse Internationale Vleesmarkt, BRUGS SLACHTHUIS and BOUCHERIE SALAMA.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Paul Lootens
Director
Also active at: BRUGSE VLEESCENTRALE, Brugse Internationale Vleesmarkt, BRUGS SLACHTHUIS, BOUCHERIE SALAMA
since 1992
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Sint-Pieterszuidstraat 50 box B
8000 Brugge
Sint-Pieterszuidstraat 50 B
8000 Brugge
Active since 27 May 1992
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 2 companies are registered at this address.
All companies at this address →What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
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Details
- Company number
- 0446.967.189
- VAT number
- BE 0446.967.189
- Registered office
- Sint-Pieterszuidstraat 50 bus B, 8000 Brugge
- Names & denominations
- Paul Lootens
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 23 March 1992
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 16 Jan 2026
- Activities · NACE
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