Financials
Financial year 2025
CLAES MACHINES from Beringen, company number BE0461125231, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 4.8 million after tax. For that financial year CLAES MACHINES recorded revenue of € 21.4 million and equity of € 36.7 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 5.5 million to € 4.8 million. The company is profitable. 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 15, 2026.
€ 36.7 million
▲ 7% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 4.8 million
▼ 13% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 2.2 million
▼ 6% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 2.5 million paid out
52 % of the profit went to the shareholders, mostly to GROUP CLAES (100 % of the shares). That is where the money ends up.
People and assets in 2025
43.1
▲ 0.6 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 4.1 million
▲ 11% vs 2024
€ 95,500 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.
€ 63,300
▼ 16% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 7.7 million
▼ 20% vs 2024
€ 2 million is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 4 years.
€ 1.7 million
▲ 15% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 37 days on average.
€ 901,316
▲ 8% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 20,094,331 | € 18,529,557 | € 23,043,102 | € 21,395,170 | ▼ 7% |
| Profit after taxes | € 4,009,231 | € 4,273,884 | € 5,489,137 | € 4,784,463 | ▼ 13% |
| Equity | € 30,159,743 | € 31,933,627 | € 34,422,764 | € 36,707,227 | ▲ 7% |
| Total debts | € 18,719,391 | € 16,883,984 | € 15,360,886 | € 13,094,331 | ▼ 15% |
| Cash | € 1,198,006 | € 862,268 | € 2,359,937 | € 2,208,988 | ▼ 6% |
| Retained profit | € 12,641,866 | € 14,415,749 | € 16,904,886 | € 19,189,350 | ▲ 14% |
| Dividend | € 2,000,000 | € 2,500,000 | € 3,000,000 | € 2,500,000 | ▼ 17% |
| Bank debt | € 13,658,730 | € 11,676,190 | € 9,693,650 | € 7,711,110 | ▼ 20% |
| Balance sheet total | € 49,037,423 | € 49,166,085 | € 50,344,157 | € 50,583,688 | |
| Employees (FTE) | 38.3 | 40.6 | 42.5 | 43.1 | ▲ 0.6 |
Key figures of CLAES MACHINES, 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 CLAES MACHINES?
What happened at CLAES MACHINES in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Claes Food Projects NV stepped down as director. NBB
- VEBACON.BE BV stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 4.8 million (▼ 13% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Claes Food Projects NV became a director. NBB
- VEBACON.BE BV became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Beringen. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 4 million profit in 2022 to € 4.8 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 1 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 5.5 million profit.
Paid out € 10 million in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
The stake of GROUP CLAES comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
CLAES MACHINESThe shares are held by GROUP CLAES (100%). It owns 98.6% of Claes Distribution itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Jan Camerlynck
Also active at: CLAES DISTRIBUTION, BRABOPAK, GROUP CLAES
since 2025 · until 2031
Managing director · represented by Bart Verbeeck
Also active at: CLAES DISTRIBUTION, BRABOPAK, Claes Food Projects, GROUP CLAES
since 2025 · until 2031
Shareholders
100%
Participations
98.6%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Beverlosesteenweg 128
3583 Beringen
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 5 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0461.125.231
- VAT number
- BE 0461.125.231
- Registered office
- Beverlosesteenweg 128, 3583 Beringen
- Names & denominations
- CLAES MACHINES
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 11 July 1997
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 1 Jan 2001
- Activities · NACE
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