Financials
Financial year 2025
Mertens-Van Gastel from Hoogstraten, company number BE0449595691, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 33,557 after tax. For that financial year Mertens-Van Gastel recorded a gross margin of € 431,572 and equity of € 1.7 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 175,354 to € 33,557. The company is profitable. The company holds a healthy buffer. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on March 31, 2026.
€ 1.7 million
▼ 10% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 33,557
▼ 81% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 213,669
▼ 31% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 221,299 paid out
More than the year’s profit went to the shareholders; reserves fell.
People and assets in 2025
2.6
▲ 0.1 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 115,970
▲ 24% vs 2024
€ 44,600 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.
€ 406,806
▼ 14% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 455,329
▲ € 407,198 vs 2024
€ 47,829 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 10 years.
€ 68,322
▼ 61% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 57,961
▲ 71% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 596,688 | € 739,951 | € 530,873 | € 431,572 | ▼ 19% |
| Profit after taxes | € 208,627 | € 293,578 | € 175,354 | € 33,557 | ▼ 81% |
| Equity | € 1,444,293 | € 1,692,871 | € 1,868,225 | € 1,680,483 | ▼ 10% |
| Total debts | € 501,611 | € 513,282 | € 362,164 | € 858,922 | ▲ 137% |
| Cash | € 452,654 | € 676,368 | € 310,978 | € 213,669 | ▼ 31% |
| Land & buildings | € 386,260 | € 406,207 | € 400,004 | € 1,253,014 | ▲ 213% |
| Retained profit | € 1,308,706 | € 1,557,285 | € 1,732,638 | € 1,544,896 | ▼ 11% |
| Dividend | € 141,356 | € 45,000 | € 0 | € 221,299 | |
| Bank debt | € 116,910 | € 82,266 | € 48,131 | € 455,329 | ▲ € 407,198 |
| Balance sheet total | € 1,945,904 | € 2,206,153 | € 2,230,389 | € 2,539,404 | ▲ 14% |
| Employees (FTE) | 3.3 | 3.3 | 2.5 | 2.6 | ▲ 0.1 |
Key figures of Mertens-Van Gastel, 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 March 2027.
What happened to Mertens-Van Gastel?
What happened at Mertens-Van Gastel in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 33,557 (▼ 81% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Hoogstraten. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 208,627 profit in 2022 to € 33,557 profit in 2025.
Paid € 264,142 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 293,578 profit.
On average € 166,000 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
Behind Mertens-Van Gastel are Koen Mertens, Liesbeth Van Gastel and Jozef Mertens. Koen Mertens is also behind HEUMERT.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Minderhoutsestraat 147
2321 Hoogstraten
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Details
- Company number
- 0449.595.691
- VAT number
- BE 0449.595.691
- Registered office
- Minderhoutsestraat 147, 2321 Hoogstraten
- Names & denominations
- Mertens-Van Gastel
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 10 March 1993
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