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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 41.4 to 36.1.
Financials
Financial year 2025
CHOCOLAT LINE from Brugge, company number BE0447913336, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 698,114 after tax. For that financial year CHOCOLAT LINE recorded a gross margin of € 3.7 million and equity of € 1.4 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 671,867 to € 698,114. Profitable, and profit is growing. The buffer is growing. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on July 10, 2026.
€ 1.4 million
▲ 14% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 698,114
▲ 4% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 1 million
▼ 9% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 525,000 paid out
75 % of the profit went to the shareholders, mostly to CHOCOLATEFLOW (100 % of the shares). That is where the money ends up.
People and assets in 2025
36.1
▼ 3.3 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 2.4 million
▼ 1% vs 2024
€ 67,400 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.
€ 30,845
▼ 23% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 2.4 million
▲ 185% vs 2024
€ 334,770 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 7 years.
€ 161,618
▲ 109% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 361,503
▼ 18% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 2,649,861 | € 3,270,539 | € 3,531,990 | € 3,725,203 | ▲ 5% |
| Profit after taxes | € 506,184 | € 655,066 | € 671,867 | € 698,114 | ▲ 4% |
| Equity | € 848,422 | € 1,053,487 | € 1,275,354 | € 1,448,468 | ▲ 14% |
| Total debts | € 1,953,064 | € 1,924,376 | € 2,012,398 | € 3,542,822 | ▲ 76% |
| Cash | € 1,197,696 | € 1,029,938 | € 1,095,821 | € 1,002,137 | ▼ 9% |
| Land & buildings | - | - | € 198,932 | € 1,998,045 | ▲ € 1.8 million |
| Retained profit | € 786,422 | € 991,487 | € 1,213,354 | € 1,386,468 | ▲ 14% |
| Dividend | € 350,000 | € 450,000 | € 450,000 | € 525,000 | ▲ 17% |
| Bank debt | € 1,265,602 | € 1,001,616 | € 826,525 | € 2,357,151 | ▲ 185% |
| Balance sheet total | € 2,801,486 | € 2,977,864 | € 3,287,752 | € 4,991,290 | ▲ 52% |
| Employees (FTE) | 36.2 | 41.4 | 39.4 | 36.1 | ▼ 3.3 |
Key figures of CHOCOLAT LINE, 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 CHOCOLAT LINE?
What happened at CHOCOLAT LINE in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 698,114 (▲ 4% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Brugge. KBO
- New establishment in Antwerpen. KBO
- New establishment in Brugge. KBO
- New establishment in Brugge. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 506,184 profit in 2022 to € 698,114 profit in 2025.
Paid € 424,875 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 698,114 profit.
On average € 103,200 of value added per employee in 2025.
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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
The stake of CHOCOLATEFLOW comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
CHOCOLAT LINEBehind CHOCOLAT LINE are Frank Persoone, Chocolateflow BV, Chocolate is Rock 'n' Roll BV and Fado BV. The shares are held by CHOCOLATEFLOW (99.8%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Frank Persoone
Director
Managing director · represented by Dominique Persoone
Also active at: Chocolate Harvest
Director · represented by Julius Persoone
Managing director · represented by Fabienne De Staerke
Shareholders
99.8%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Simon Stevinplein 19
8000 Brugge
Vaartstraat 75
8000 Brugge
Active since 1 March 2009
Meir 50
2000 Antwerpen
Active since 15 January 2010
Simon Stevinplein 20
8000 Brugge
Active since 14 August 2016
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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Website
Technologies
Hosting & Email
Email provider
Microsoft 365
Hosting
COMBELL-AS, BE
Domain
Domain
thechocolateline.be
Registered
2003-05-05
Website info
Features
Security
Details
- Company number
- 0447.913.336
- VAT number
- BE 0447.913.336
- Registered office
- Simon Stevinplein 19, 8000 Brugge
- Names & denominations
- CHOCOLAT LINE
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 15 July 1992
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 16 May 2025
- Contact
- thechocolateline.be 0032 50 82 01 26
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