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 39 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 109 to 93.1.
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Legal situation KBO
Einde van de opschorting according to the CBE.
Financials
Financial year 2025
BREPOLS from Turnhout, company number BE0463139663, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 1.5 million after tax. For that financial year BREPOLS recorded revenue of € 19 million and equity of € 11.1 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 926,115 to € 1.5 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 May 6, 2026.
€ 11.1 million
▲ 4% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 1.5 million
▲ 63% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 401,797
▼ 29% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 1.1 million paid out
73 % of the profit went to the shareholders, mostly to BREPOLS GROUP (100 % of the shares). That is where the money ends up.
People and assets in 2025
93.1
▼ 9.8 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 7.3 million
▼ 2% vs 2024
€ 78,100 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.
€ 345,145
▼ 14% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 1.1 million
▼ 20% vs 2024
€ 283,861 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 4 years.
€ 714,861
▼ 7% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 24 days on average.
€ 1.5 million
▼ 4% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2021 | 2022 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Revenue | € 17,352,616 | € 19,614,989 | € 18,788,678 | € 18,981,904 | ▲ 1% |
| Profit after taxes | € 1,072,712 | € 1,337,822 | € 926,115 | € 1,507,512 | ▲ 63% |
| Equity | € 9,630,683 | € 10,968,505 | € 10,682,933 | € 11,090,445 | ▲ 4% |
| Total debts | € 12,587,972 | € 5,196,416 | € 5,271,722 | € 5,392,526 | ▲ 2% |
| Cash | € 4,497,042 | € 3,513,973 | € 569,209 | € 401,797 | ▼ 29% |
| Land & buildings | € 4,458,350 | € 4,858,706 | € 4,223,099 | € 3,823,981 | ▼ 9% |
| Retained profit | € 1,630,683 | € 2,968,505 | € 2,682,933 | € 3,090,445 | ▲ 15% |
| Dividend | € 6,800,000 | € 0 | € 690,000 | € 1,100,000 | ▲ 59% |
| Bank debt | € 2,699,090 | € 1,928,108 | € 1,390,470 | € 1,110,783 | ▼ 20% |
| Balance sheet total | € 22,223,569 | € 16,164,922 | € 15,954,655 | € 16,482,971 | ▲ 3% |
| Employees (FTE) | 110.2 | 109 | 102.9 | 93.1 | ▼ 9.8 |
Key figures of BREPOLS, 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 BREPOLS?
What happened at BREPOLS in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- A.d.C.E. commV stepped down as director. NBB
- RESA CONSULT BV stepped down as director. NBB
- PDMC commV stepped down as director. NBB
- LINE MANAGEMENT BV stepped down as director. NBB
- ASSaPP NV stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 1.5 million (▲ 63% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- A.d.C.E. commV became a director. NBB
- ASSaPP NV became a director. NBB
In short
From € 1.1 million profit in 2021 to € 1.5 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 943,514 in corporate taxes since 2021.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 1.5 million profit.
Paid out € 8.6 million in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
The stake of BREPOLS GROUP comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
BREPOLSThe shares are held by BREPOLS GROUP (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Antoine de Cartier de Marchienne
since 2024 · until 2029
Chairman of the board · represented by Jean-Louis de Cartier de Marchienne
Also active at: SCR - SIBELCO, BREPOLS PUBLISHERS
since 2024 · until 2027
Managing director · represented by Marc Aerts
since 2023 · until 2029
since 2023 · until 2029
Director · represented by Martin de Cartier de Marchienne
Also active at: BREPOLS GROUP, BREPOLS PUBLISHERS
since 2024 · until 2029
Shareholders
100%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Tieblokkenlaan 2
2300 Turnhout
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0463.139.663
- VAT number
- BE 0463.139.663
- Registered office
- Tieblokkenlaan 2, 2300 Turnhout
- Names & denominations
- BREPOLS · Brepols Graphic Products; Blue Line Business Gifts
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Einde van de opschorting
- Start date
- 24 April 1998
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