Financials
Financial year 2025
DE GROENE WATERMAN from Antwerpen, company number BE0460205414, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 66,610 after tax. For that financial year DE GROENE WATERMAN recorded a gross margin of € 348,865 and equity of € 516,710. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 31,842 to € 66,610. 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 29, 2026.
€ 516,710
▲ 14% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 66,610
▲ 109% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 354,336
▲ 80% 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 € -133,068.
People and assets in 2025
4.9
▲ 0.3 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 264,854
▲ 22% vs 2024
€ 54,100 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.
Debts at end 2025
None
No bank loans on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 51,162
▼ 33% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 68,213
▲ 34% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 228,665 | € 286,584 | € 267,567 | € 348,865 | ▲ 30% |
| Profit after taxes | € 21,822 | € 63,007 | € 31,842 | € 66,610 | ▲ 109% |
| Equity | € 364,313 | € 432,377 | € 454,797 | € 516,710 | ▲ 14% |
| Total debts | € 147,758 | € 146,022 | € 131,608 | € 143,041 | ▲ 9% |
| Cash | € 228,290 | € 308,122 | € 196,402 | € 354,336 | ▲ 80% |
| Retained profit | € -285,419 | € -222,412 | € -195,007 | € -133,068 | ▲ € 61,939 |
| Bank debt | € 0 | € 123 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Balance sheet total | € 512,950 | € 579,206 | € 587,138 | € 660,411 | ▲ 12% |
| Employees (FTE) | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 4.9 | ▲ 0.3 |
Key figures of DE GROENE WATERMAN, 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 DE GROENE WATERMAN?
What happened at DE GROENE WATERMAN in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Marijke Van Hauwaert stepped down as director. NBB
- Luc Lever stepped down as director. NBB
- Katrien Merckx stepped down as director. NBB
- Herman Dereymaeker stepped down as director. NBB
- Frank Willems stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 66,610 (▲ 109% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Marijke Van Hauwaert became a director. NBB
- Frank Willems became a director. NBB
In short
From € 21,822 profit in 2022 to € 66,610 profit in 2025.
Paid € 1,932 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 66,610 profit.
On average € 71,200 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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Management
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
since 2001 · until 2029
Katrien Merckx
Managing director
since 2016 · until 2029
since 1997 · until 2029
since 2020 · until 2029
Marijke Van Hauwaert
Director
since 2024 · until 2030
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Wolstraat 7
2000 Antwerpen
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 2 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0460.205.414
- VAT number
- BE 0460.205.414
- Registered office
- Wolstraat 7, 2000 Antwerpen
- Names & denominations
- DE GROENE WATERMAN
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Cooperative company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 14 March 1997
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 27 Mar 2026
- Activities · NACE
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