Warning lights
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 20.3 to 17.5.
Financials
Financial year 2025
MELIS EVENTS from Dessel, company number BE0453966829, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 82,599 after tax. For that financial year MELIS EVENTS recorded a gross margin of € 1.4 million and equity of € 383,491. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 81,863 to € 82,599. Profitable, and profit is growing. The buffer is growing. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on August 31, 2026.
€ 383,491
▲ 2% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 82,599
▲ 1% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 650,360
▼ 27% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 75,000 paid out
91 % of the profit went to the shareholders, mostly to BOXBERGER (50 % of the shares). That is where the money ends up.
People and assets in 2025
17.5
▼ 2.2 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 935,360
▼ 13% vs 2024
€ 53,400 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.
€ 157,281
▼ 24% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 272,105
▼ 51% vs 2024
€ 70,696 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 4 years.
€ 1.1 million
▼ 35% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 75,334
▲ 8% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 1,971,515 | € 1,226,103 | € 1,512,469 | € 1,387,499 | ▼ 8% |
| Profit after taxes | € 801,327 | € 21,849 | € 81,863 | € 82,599 | ▲ 1% |
| Equity | € 342,180 | € 364,029 | € 375,892 | € 383,491 | ▲ 2% |
| Total debts | € 2,445,481 | € 2,372,257 | € 2,394,453 | € 1,627,730 | ▼ 32% |
| Cash | € 1,203,439 | € 683,432 | € 894,750 | € 650,360 | ▼ 27% |
| Land & buildings | € 701 | € 467 | € 2,082 | € 3,296 | ▲ 58% |
| Retained profit | € 304,980 | € 326,829 | € 338,692 | € 346,291 | ▲ 2% |
| Dividend | € 540,000 | € 0 | € 70,000 | € 75,000 | ▲ 7% |
| Bank debt | € 812,652 | € 678,810 | € 557,338 | € 272,105 | ▼ 51% |
| Balance sheet total | € 2,787,660 | € 2,736,286 | € 2,805,345 | € 2,196,222 | ▼ 22% |
| Employees (FTE) | 19.5 | 20.3 | 19.7 | 17.5 | ▼ 2.2 |
Key figures of MELIS EVENTS, 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 MELIS EVENTS?
What happened at MELIS EVENTS in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 82,599 (▲ 1% vs 2024). filed late Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Mol. KBO
- New establishment in Dessel. KBO
- Dirk Melis became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Dessel. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 801,327 profit in 2022 to € 82,599 profit in 2025.
Paid € 72,021 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 801,327 profit.
On average € 79,300 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of BOXBERGER comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
MELIS EVENTSBehind MELIS EVENTS are Werner Melis, Dirk Melis and Mike Melis. The shares are held by BOXBERGER (50%). It owns 50% of Gators.be and 33% of RDMK Events itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Werner Melis
Manager
Also active at: K.F.C. Dessel Sport, DE WATERHOEK, RETIESE WATERMOLEN, BOXBERGER, STUDIO SASKIA, GATORS.BE
Dirk Melis
Manager
Also active at: DE WATERHOEK, RETIESE WATERMOLEN, BOXBERGER, RDMK Events, DIKA CONSULT, Evenco, GATORS.BE
since 2011
Shareholders
50%
Participations
50%
33%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Zandbergen 102
2480 Dessel
Hannekestraat 10
2480 Dessel
Active since 19 July 2017
Abdijlaan z/n
2400 Mol
Active since 1 January 2019
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 7 companies are registered at this address.
All companies at this address →DE WATERHOEK same network
€ 695,568 gross margin · 2025
BOXBERGER same network
€ 288,949 gross margin · 2025
Food Events
RDMK Events same network
€ 436,179 gross margin · 2025
Evenco same network
€ -3,688 gross margin · 2025
+2 more
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0453.966.829
- VAT number
- BE 0453.966.829
- Registered office
- Zandbergen 102, 2480 Dessel
- Names & denominations
- MELIS EVENTS
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 7 December 1994
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 24 Nov 2023
- Activities · NACE
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