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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 52 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 103.3 to 85.8.
Financials
Financial year 2025
BRU TEXTILES from Kontich, company number BE0453835284, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 869,354 after tax. For that financial year BRU TEXTILES recorded revenue of € 103.8 million and equity of € 83 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 427,031 to € 869,354. 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 July 14, 2026.
€ 83 million
▲ 1% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 869,354
▲ 104% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 1.1 million
▼ 84% 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 € 54.5 million.
People and assets in 2025
85.8
▼ 9.2 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 6.4 million
▼ 11% vs 2024
€ 74,200 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.
€ 186,905
▼ 33% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 44.6 million
▼ 19% vs 2024
€ 1.9 million is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 3 years.
€ 12.2 million
▼ 5% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 49 days on average.
€ 950,565
▼ 16% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Revenue | € 116,408,067 | € 113,416,399 | € 106,547,416 | € 103,809,178 | ▼ 3% |
| Profit after taxes | € 4,112,971 | € 2,250,219 | € 427,031 | € 869,354 | ▲ 104% |
| Equity | € 79,790,733 | € 81,726,279 | € 82,153,310 | € 83,022,663 | ▲ 1% |
| Total debts | € 63,611,219 | € 82,903,487 | € 76,764,595 | € 64,552,092 | ▼ 16% |
| Cash | € 2,135,371 | € 15,675,735 | € 7,021,630 | € 1,148,581 | ▼ 84% |
| Land & buildings | € 334,194 | € 325,779 | € 308,643 | € 291,507 | ▼ 6% |
| Retained profit | € 51,298,733 | € 53,234,279 | € 53,661,310 | € 54,530,663 | ▲ 2% |
| Dividend | € 4,000,000 | € 0 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Bank debt | € 45,763,952 | € 66,759,431 | € 55,390,405 | € 44,601,313 | ▼ 19% |
| Balance sheet total | € 143,401,952 | € 164,629,766 | € 158,917,904 | € 147,574,755 | ▼ 7% |
| Employees (FTE) | 108.8 | 103.3 | 95 | 85.8 | ▼ 9.2 |
Key figures of BRU TEXTILES, 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 BRU TEXTILES?
What happened at BRU TEXTILES in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Aether Consulting VOF stepped down as director. NBB
- Bru Digital NV stepped down as director. NBB
- S-Works VOF stepped down as director. NBB
- NAV Holding BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Artitex CV stepped down as director. NBB
- Bru Holding BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Vector Consulting BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Protea Management CV stepped down as director. NBB
In short
From € 4.1 million profit in 2022 to € 869,354 profit in 2025.
Paid € 2.3 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 4.1 million profit.
Paid out € 4 million in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
It owns 100% of Bru Resource Ltd, 100% of Fabric Library Limited, 100% of Home Fabrics, 100% of Bru Polska, 100% of BRU.DIGITAL and 100% of Mercis itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Sam Deferm
since 2023 · until 2028
Director · represented by Dieter Verlaeckt
since 2023 · until 2028
Managing director · represented by Jason Neiman
Also active at: ZARO, bru.digital, LABOTEX
since 2023 · until 2028
Director · represented by Jurgen Stevens
since 2023 · until 2028
since 2023 · until 2028
Director · represented by Mikhail Danielachvili
since 2023 · until 2028
Director · represented by Sean Smilkstein
since 2023 · until 2028
Director · represented by Gemma Powers
since 2024 · until 2030
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Satenrozen 2A
2550 Kontich
Satenrozen 2 A
2550 Kontich
Active since 10 June 2002
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 4 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0453.835.284
- VAT number
- BE 0453.835.284
- Registered office
- Satenrozen 2A, 2550 Kontich
- Names & denominations
- BRU TEXTILES
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 25 November 1994
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 1 Jan 2001
- Activities · NACE
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