Financials
Financial year 2025
CHOCOLATERIE DE SCHUTTER from Lokeren, company number BE0458727054, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 128,816 after tax. For that financial year CHOCOLATERIE DE SCHUTTER recorded a gross margin of € 969,276 and equity of € 950,181. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -56,039 to € 128,816. 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 December 20, 2025.
€ 950,181
▲ 8% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 128,816
▲ still € 56,039 loss in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 221,846
▲ 55% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 56,000 paid out
43 % of the profit went to the shareholders, mostly to POLYVEST (100 % of the shares). That is where the money ends up.
People and assets in 2025
14.8
▲ 1 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 743,549
▲ 9% vs 2024
€ 50,200 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.
€ 5,028
▼ 27% 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.
€ 89,543
▲ 55% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 114,831
▼ 11% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 1,058,714 | € 1,185,363 | € 673,962 | € 969,276 | ▲ 44% |
| Profit after taxes | € 282,180 | € 466,081 | € -56,039 | € 128,816 | ▲ € 184,855 |
| Equity | € 982,537 | € 1,433,404 | € 877,366 | € 950,181 | ▲ 8% |
| Total debts | € 201,118 | € 135,249 | € 186,568 | € 260,374 | ▲ 40% |
| Cash | € 208,829 | € 1,118,953 | € 143,581 | € 221,846 | ▲ 55% |
| Retained profit | € 915,606 | € 1,366,473 | € 810,434 | € 883,250 | ▲ 9% |
| Dividend | € 73,872 | € 15,214 | € 500,000 | € 56,000 | ▼ 89% |
| Balance sheet total | € 1,183,655 | € 1,568,653 | € 1,063,934 | € 1,210,555 | ▲ 14% |
| Employees (FTE) | 12.6 | 10.7 | 13.8 | 14.8 | ▲ 1 |
Key figures of CHOCOLATERIE DE SCHUTTER, fiscal years 2022 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2026) expected before 30 January 2027.
What happened to CHOCOLATERIE DE SCHUTTER?
What happened at CHOCOLATERIE DE SCHUTTER in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 128,816. Source: NBB ↗
- Laurence BAERT became a director. NBB
- Polyvest BV became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Lokeren. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 282,180 profit in 2022 to € 128,816 profit in 2025.
Paid € 288,687 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 466,081 profit.
On average € 65,500 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
The stake of POLYVEST comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
CHOCOLATERIE DE SCHUTTERBehind CHOCOLATERIE DE SCHUTTER are Laurence BAERT and Polyvest BV. The shares are held by POLYVEST (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Philippe VAN BIESEBROECK
since 2023
Shareholders
100%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Brandstraat 18
9160 Lokeren
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Website
Technologies
Hosting & Email
Email provider
Microsoft 365
Hosting
COMBELL-AS, BE
DNS
TransIP DNS
Website info
Features
Security
Details
- Company number
- 0458.727.054
- VAT number
- BE 0458.727.054
- Registered office
- Brandstraat 18, 9160 Lokeren
- Names & denominations
- CHOCOLATERIE DE SCHUTTER
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 11 September 1996
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 1 Jan 2001
- Contact
- chocolaterie-de-schutter.be
- Activities · NACE
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