Financials
Financial year 2025
Bayer Agriculture from Antwerpen, company number BE0460474539, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 16.7 million after tax. For that financial year Bayer Agriculture recorded revenue of € 13 million and equity of € 102.9 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 13.7 million to € 16.7 million. 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 18, 2026.
€ 102.9 million
▲ 7% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 16.7 million
▲ 22% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 293,910
▼ 76% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 10 million paid out
60 % of the profit went to the shareholders, mostly to Bayer CropScience NV (100 % of the shares). That is where the money ends up.
People and assets in 2025
642
▼ 34.1 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 109.6 million
▲ 7% vs 2024
€ 170,800 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.
€ 1.6 million
▼ 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.
€ 31.7 million
▼ 15% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 89 days on average.
€ 23.6 million
▲ 21% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 11,399,477 | € 13,401,336 | € 13,323,425 | € 13,013,680 | ▼ 2% |
| Profit after taxes | € 10,790,835 | € 9,054,842 | € 13,663,718 | € 16,664,117 | ▲ 22% |
| Equity | € 95,514,090 | € 95,568,931 | € 96,232,649 | € 102,896,766 | ▲ 7% |
| Total debts | € 100,505,776 | € 75,141,795 | € 79,794,558 | € 78,406,743 | ▼ 2% |
| Cash | € 636,253 | € 791,532 | € 1,227,231 | € 293,910 | ▼ 76% |
| Land & buildings | € 8,584,811 | € 9,532,137 | € 11,475,331 | € 11,490,690 | |
| Retained profit | € 17,792,478 | € 17,847,320 | € 18,511,038 | € 25,175,155 | ▲ 36% |
| Dividend | € 13,000,000 | € 9,000,000 | € 13,000,000 | € 10,000,000 | ▼ 23% |
| Balance sheet total | € 219,920,395 | € 197,188,354 | € 207,546,878 | € 209,473,324 | ▲ 1% |
| Employees (FTE) | 689.4 | 688.4 | 676.1 | 642 | ▼ 34.1 |
Key figures of Bayer Agriculture, 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 Bayer Agriculture?
What happened at Bayer Agriculture in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 16.7 million (▲ 22% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Bart Van den Driessche became a director. NBB
- Walter Dechateau became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Antwerpen. KBO
- New establishment in Machelen (Brab.). KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 10.8 million profit in 2022 to € 16.7 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 5.2 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 16.7 million profit.
Paid out € 45 million in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
Behind Bayer Agriculture are Walter Dechateau and Bart Van den Driessche. The shares are held by Bayer CropScience NV (100%) and Bayer Global Investments BV (0%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Walter Dechateau
Director
since 2018
Bart Van den Driessche
Director
since 2023
Shareholders
100%
Bayer Global Investments BV
0%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Scheldelaan 460
2040 Antwerpen
Kouterveldstraat 7A box 301
1831 Machelen (Brab.)
Active since 2 May 1997
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 3 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0460.474.539
- VAT number
- BE 0460.474.539
- Registered office
- Scheldelaan 460, 2040 Antwerpen
- Names & denominations
- Bayer Agriculture
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 14 April 1997
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 1 Jan 2001
- Contact
- bayer.be [email protected]
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