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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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2024 and 2025.
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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 61 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 57.5 to 39.5.
Financials
Financial year 2025
VLAAMSE VISVEILING from Brugge, company number BE0460153350, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -171,853 after tax. For that financial year VLAAMSE VISVEILING recorded revenue of € 9.6 million and equity of € 3.4 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -335,818 to € -171,853. The company made a loss. The company holds a healthy buffer. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on July 16, 2026.
€ 3.4 million
▼ 8% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -171,853
▲ 49 % less loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 487,896
▼ 25% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 182,424.
People and assets in 2025
39.5
▼ 8.3 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 3.5 million
▲ 1% vs 2024
€ 88,000 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.
€ 471,746
▼ 7% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 3.7 million
▲ 76% vs 2024
€ 369,054 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 10 years.
€ 870,745
▼ 61% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 56 days on average.
€ 619,525
▼ 3% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2021 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Revenue | € 77,808,796 | € 10,116,643 | € 9,125,803 | € 9,595,386 | ▲ 5% |
| Profit after taxes | € 202,051 | € 621,589 | € -335,818 | € -171,853 | ▲ € 163,965 |
| Equity | € 3,229,592 | € 3,452,366 | € 3,673,774 | € 3,363,482 | ▼ 8% |
| Total debts | € 6,813,779 | € 8,039,652 | € 7,329,712 | € 6,374,844 | ▼ 13% |
| Cash | € 1,476,327 | € 1,083,746 | € 651,284 | € 487,896 | ▼ 25% |
| Land & buildings | € 6,251,093 | € 5,965,823 | € 5,437,260 | € 5,767,755 | ▲ 6% |
| Retained profit | € 127,200 | € 690,095 | € 354,277 | € 182,424 | ▼ 49% |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 500,000 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Bank debt | € 2,779,484 | € 2,680,121 | € 2,096,563 | € 3,699,172 | ▲ 76% |
| Balance sheet total | € 10,043,371 | € 11,492,018 | € 11,003,486 | € 9,738,327 | ▼ 11% |
| Employees (FTE) | 59.1 | 57.5 | 47.8 | 39.5 | ▼ 8.3 |
Key figures of VLAAMSE VISVEILING, fiscal years 2021 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 VLAAMSE VISVEILING?
What happened at VLAAMSE VISVEILING in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Promotie en Ontwikkelingsmaatschappij NV stepped down as director. NBB
- Mauriwa NV stepped down as director. NBB
- Argu BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Lukoban BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Sylvie Becaus stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 171,853. Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Oostende. KBO
- Promotie en Ontwikkelingsmaatschappij NV became a director. NBB
In short
From € 202,051 profit in 2021 to € 171,853 loss in 2025.
Paid € 50,181 in corporate taxes since 2021.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 621,589 profit.
Paid out € 500,000 in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
The stake of EUROPEAN FOOD CENTRE comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
VLAAMSE VISVEILINGThe shares are held by EUROPEAN FOOD CENTRE (100%). It owns 66% of VERENIGING VLAAMSE VISVEILINGEN itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Promotie en Ontwikkelingsmaatschappij NV
Director · represented by Marie Jeanne Pieters
since 2023 · until 2029
Director · represented by Ignace Becaus
Also active at: EUROPEAN FOOD CENTRE, PROMOTIE EN ONTWIKKELINGSMAATSCHAPPIJ VOOR DE ZEEBRUGSE VISSERSHAVEN
since 2023 · until 2029
Director · represented by Guido Roels
Also active at: ZEEBRUGGE FOOD LOGISTICS, EUROPEAN FOOD CENTRE
since 2023 · until 2029
Chairman of the board · represented by Piet Vanthemsche
Also active at: ZEEBRUGGE FOOD LOGISTICS, EUROPEAN FOOD CENTRE, 3 D, 3D Skywalkers, House of Odin
since 2023 · until 2029
Sylvie Becaus
Managing director
Also active at: Adviesburo M.J.P., ZEEBRUGGE FOOD LOGISTICS, EUROPEAN FOOD CENTRE, VERIMO, PROMOTIE EN ONTWIKKELINGSMAATSCHAPPIJ VOOR DE ZEEBRUGSE VISSERSHAVEN, MAURIWA, BOTTELCO, VERENIGING VLAAMSE VISVEILINGEN +2 more
since 2023 · until 2029
Shareholders
100%
Participations
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Noordzeestraat 201
8380 Brugge
Sprotplein 2
8400 Oostende
Active since 8 November 2010
Eduard Anseelekaai 61
8400 Oostende
Active since 2 September 2024
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 5 companies are registered at this address.
All companies at this address →EUROPEAN FOOD CENTRE same network
€ 2.1 million revenue · 2025
PROMOTIE EN ONTWIKKELINGSMAATSCHAPPIJ VOOR DE ZEEBRUGSE VISSERSHAVEN same network
€ 859,914 revenue · 2025
VERENIGING VLAAMSE VISVEILINGEN same network
€ 36,006 gross margin · 2025
POM BEL same network
€ 637,504 gross margin · 2025
Fish Food Holding same network
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0460.153.350
- VAT number
- BE 0460.153.350
- Registered office
- Noordzeestraat 201, 8380 Brugge
- Names & denominations
- VLAAMSE VISVEILING · VLV
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 6 March 1997
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 31 Mar 2026
- Activities · NACE
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