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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 11.6 to 10.3.
Financials
Financial year 2025
METAALHANDEL PILLAERT from Vleteren, company number BE0448181471, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 116,913 after tax. For that financial year METAALHANDEL PILLAERT recorded a gross margin of € 1 million and equity of € 3.6 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 223,236 to € 116,913. The company is profitable. 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 March 4, 2026.
€ 3.6 million
▲ 3% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 116,913
▼ 48% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 642,027
▲ 54% 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 € 3.6 million.
People and assets in 2025
10.3
▼ 0.4 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 773,875
▲ 2% vs 2024
€ 75,100 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.
€ 157,038
▼ 26% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 84,230
▼ 55% vs 2024
€ 70,581 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 1 years.
€ 1 million
▲ 21% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 95,310
▲ 41% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 1,641,197 | € 1,889,166 | € 1,230,610 | € 1,037,105 | ▼ 16% |
| Profit after taxes | € 619,616 | € 775,663 | € 223,236 | € 116,913 | ▼ 48% |
| Equity | € 2,467,448 | € 3,243,111 | € 3,466,347 | € 3,583,261 | ▲ 3% |
| Total debts | € 2,250,072 | € 1,260,926 | € 1,084,218 | € 1,189,146 | ▲ 10% |
| Cash | € 1,165,632 | € 695,142 | € 416,843 | € 642,027 | ▲ 54% |
| Land & buildings | € 515,892 | € 627,155 | € 893,372 | € 813,951 | ▼ 9% |
| Retained profit | € 2,448,856 | € 3,224,519 | € 3,447,755 | € 3,564,669 | ▲ 3% |
| Bank debt | € 420,633 | € 298,805 | € 185,129 | € 84,230 | ▼ 55% |
| Balance sheet total | € 4,717,520 | € 4,504,036 | € 4,550,565 | € 4,772,406 | ▲ 5% |
| Employees (FTE) | 13.4 | 11.6 | 10.7 | 10.3 | ▼ 0.4 |
Key figures of METAALHANDEL PILLAERT, fiscal years 2022 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2026) expected before 30 April 2027.
What happened to METAALHANDEL PILLAERT?
What happened at METAALHANDEL PILLAERT in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 116,913 (▼ 48% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Vleteren. KBO
- An PILLAERT became a director. NBB
- Dominiek VANDENBERGHE became a director. NBB
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 619,616 profit in 2022 to € 116,913 profit in 2025.
Paid € 534,665 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 775,663 profit.
On average € 100,700 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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Management
Behind METAALHANDEL PILLAERT are An PILLAERT and Dominiek VANDENBERGHE. Dominiek VANDENBERGHE is also behind JDI INVEST.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
An PILLAERT
Director
since 1992
since 1992
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Eikhoekstraat(West) 24
8640 Vleteren
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
- 0448.181.471
- VAT number
- BE 0448.181.471
- Registered office
- Eikhoekstraat(West) 24, 8640 Vleteren
- Names & denominations
- METAALHANDEL PILLAERT
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 14 September 1992
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 30 Oct 2023
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