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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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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 58 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
OSTEND BASIC CHEMICALS from Oostende, company number BE0453390074, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 463,517 after tax. For that financial year OSTEND BASIC CHEMICALS recorded revenue of € 52.9 million and equity of € 13.8 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -1.2 million to € 463,517. 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 June 15, 2026.
€ 13.8 million
▲ 2% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 463,517
▲ still € 1.2 million loss in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 36,168
▼ 94% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 2 million paid out
More than the year’s profit went to the shareholders; reserves fell.
People and assets in 2025
29
▼ 0.6 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 3.2 million
▲ 9% vs 2024
€ 110,600 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.
€ 83,309
▼ 20% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 4.7 million
▼ 12% vs 2024
€ 939,391 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 4 years.
€ 5.5 million
▼ 6% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 41 days on average.
€ 1.3 million
▲ 23% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 81,452,049 | € 66,787,978 | € 59,138,784 | € 52,904,077 | ▼ 11% |
| Profit after taxes | € 3,072,767 | € -145,467 | € -1,214,919 | € 463,517 | ▲ € 1.7 million |
| Equity | € 16,965,753 | € 14,820,286 | € 13,605,367 | € 13,831,825 | ▲ 2% |
| Total debts | € 11,839,521 | € 14,475,683 | € 14,209,473 | € 13,562,135 | ▼ 5% |
| Cash | € 2,655,583 | € 1,107,571 | € 649,962 | € 36,168 | ▼ 94% |
| Land & buildings | € 5,647,467 | € 5,499,634 | € 5,549,053 | € 8,507,320 | ▲ 53% |
| Retained profit | € 9,121,159 | € 7,514,983 | € 6,839,355 | € 5,302,872 | ▼ 22% |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 2,000,000 | € 0 | € 2,000,000 | |
| Bank debt | € 3,125,703 | € 4,550,509 | € 5,317,074 | € 4,683,730 | ▼ 12% |
| Balance sheet total | € 30,323,829 | € 30,735,980 | € 29,204,260 | € 28,793,025 | ▼ 1% |
| Employees (FTE) | 29.4 | 29.3 | 29.6 | 29 | ▼ 0.6 |
Key figures of OSTEND BASIC CHEMICALS, 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 OSTEND BASIC CHEMICALS?
What happened at OSTEND BASIC CHEMICALS in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 463,517. Source: NBB ↗
- PLASSENDALE INVEST BV became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Oostende. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 3.1 million profit in 2022 to € 463,517 profit in 2025.
Paid € 1.7 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 3.1 million profit.
Paid out € 4 million in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
The stake of PLASSENDALE INVEST comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
OSTEND BASIC CHEMICALSBehind OSTEND BASIC CHEMICALS is PLASSENDALE INVEST BV. The shares are held by PLASSENDALE INVEST (100%). It owns 50% of Bio Chem Kaai itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Jan SABBE
since 2020
Shareholders
100%
Participations
50%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Stationsstraat 123
8400 Oostende
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 1 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
- 0453.390.074
- VAT number
- BE 0453.390.074
- Registered office
- Stationsstraat 123, 8400 Oostende
- Names & denominations
- OSTEND BASIC CHEMICALS · OBC
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 30 September 1994
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 31 Mar 2025
- Contact
- [email protected]
- Activities · NACE
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