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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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 62 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 10.3 to 9.1.
Financials
Financial year 2025
GEBROEDERS VAN DEN BROECK from Merchtem, company number BE0461902914, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 102,366 after tax. For that financial year GEBROEDERS VAN DEN BROECK recorded a gross margin of € 772,086 and equity of € 2.1 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 120,374 to € 102,366. 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 16, 2026.
€ 2.1 million
▲ 5% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 102,366
▼ 15% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 97,056
▼ 5% 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 € 2 million.
People and assets in 2025
9.1
▼ 0.9 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 484,801
▼ 4% vs 2024
€ 53,300 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.
€ 112,675
▲ 103% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 141,817
▲ 13% vs 2024
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 99,891
▼ 49% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 82,655
▼ 8% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 884,917 | € 905,441 | € 798,733 | € 772,086 | ▼ 3% |
| Profit after taxes | € 172,421 | € 126,992 | € 120,374 | € 102,366 | ▼ 15% |
| Equity | € 1,726,489 | € 1,853,480 | € 1,973,854 | € 2,076,219 | ▲ 5% |
| Total debts | € 592,805 | € 498,679 | € 442,677 | € 372,211 | ▼ 16% |
| Cash | € 141,522 | € 79,317 | € 102,630 | € 97,056 | ▼ 5% |
| Land & buildings | € 792,349 | € 768,499 | € 727,548 | € 687,850 | ▼ 5% |
| Retained profit | € 1,650,528 | € 1,777,520 | € 1,897,894 | € 2,000,259 | ▲ 5% |
| Bank debt | € 190,670 | € 182,070 | € 125,028 | € 141,817 | ▲ 13% |
| Balance sheet total | € 2,385,294 | € 2,352,159 | € 2,416,531 | € 2,448,430 | ▲ 1% |
| Employees (FTE) | 11.6 | 10.3 | 10 | 9.1 | ▼ 0.9 |
Key figures of GEBROEDERS VAN DEN BROECK, 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 GEBROEDERS VAN DEN BROECK?
What happened at GEBROEDERS VAN DEN BROECK in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 102,366 (▼ 15% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Merchtem. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 172,421 profit in 2022 to € 102,366 profit in 2025.
Paid € 269,120 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 172,421 profit.
On average € 84,800 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
Behind GEBROEDERS VAN DEN BROECK is Ady VAN DEN BROECK. It owns METALU itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Stationsstraat 114-116
1785 Merchtem
Stationsstraat 114
1785 Merchtem
Active since 16 January 1998
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0461.902.914
- VAT number
- BE 0461.902.914
- Registered office
- Stationsstraat 114-116, 1785 Merchtem
- Names & denominations
- GEBROEDERS VAN DEN BROECK
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 17 November 1997
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 1 Jan 2001
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