Financials
Financial year 2025
DE GUSTIBUS from Merelbeke-Melle, company number BE0449815229, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 600,559 after tax. For that financial year DE GUSTIBUS recorded a gross margin of € 2.9 million and equity of € 6.3 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 925,956 to € 600,559. 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 July 10, 2026.
€ 6.3 million
▲ 11% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 600,559
▼ 35% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 384,469
▲ 119% 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 € 6.2 million.
People and assets in 2025
33.2
▼ 1 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.7 million
▼ 3% vs 2024
€ 49,900 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.
€ 45,742
▼ 5% 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.
€ 117,334
▼ 34% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 229,726
▲ 17% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 3,424,973 | € 4,234,109 | € 3,405,053 | € 2,868,100 | ▼ 16% |
| Profit after taxes | € 1,454,683 | € 1,732,359 | € 925,956 | € 600,559 | ▼ 35% |
| Equity | € 3,050,543 | € 4,782,901 | € 5,708,857 | € 6,309,416 | ▲ 11% |
| Total debts | € 509,496 | € 663,429 | € 562,427 | € 535,280 | ▼ 5% |
| Cash | € 799,390 | € 516,878 | € 175,679 | € 384,469 | ▲ 119% |
| Retained profit | € 2,926,596 | € 4,658,955 | € 5,584,910 | € 6,185,469 | ▲ 11% |
| Balance sheet total | € 3,560,039 | € 5,446,330 | € 6,271,285 | € 6,844,696 | ▲ 9% |
| Employees (FTE) | 29.3 | 30.3 | 34.2 | 33.2 | ▼ 1 |
Key figures of DE GUSTIBUS, 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 DE GUSTIBUS?
What happened at DE GUSTIBUS in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Maxine Verbiest stepped down as director. NBB
- Jean De Laet stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 600,559 (▼ 35% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Maxine Verbiest became a director. NBB
- Jean De Laet became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Brussel. KBO
- New establishment in Brussel. KBO
- New establishment in Brussel. KBO
In short
From € 1.5 million profit in 2022 to € 600,559 profit in 2025.
Paid € 1.3 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 1.7 million profit.
On average € 86,400 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of Chardel comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
DE GUSTIBUSThe shares are held by Chardel (50%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
since 2021 · until 2027
Jean De Laet
Director
Also active at: HET ANKER, BROUWERIJ L. HUYGHE, HUYGHE-BROUWERIJ van MELLE, GOLDEN KENIA - IMMO, MELL'S DRINKS - IMMO
since 2021 · until 2027
Shareholders
50%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Brusselsesteenweg 457
9090 Merelbeke-Melle
Getrouwheidsgang 4 box A
1000 Brussel
Active since 23 April 1993
Getrouwheidsgang 12
1000 Brussel
Active since 15 June 2006
Getrouwheidsgang 10
1000 Brussel
Active since 25 May 2007
Getrouwheidsgang 2-3
1000 Brussel
Active since 1 May 2009
Kaasmarkt 7-9
1000 Brussel
Active since 1 December 2010
Beenhouwersstraat 8-10
1000 Brussel
Active since 15 April 2011
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 3 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.
Details
- Company number
- 0449.815.229
- VAT number
- BE 0449.815.229
- Registered office
- Brusselsesteenweg 457, 9090 Merelbeke-Melle
- Names & denominations
- DE GUSTIBUS
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 13 April 1993
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 3 Dec 2025
- Activities · NACE
Activiteiten van eetgelegenheden met volledige bediening
Restaurants van het traditionele type
Cafés en bars
Eetgelegenheden met volledige bediening
Cafés
Detailhandel in dranken, algemeen assortiment