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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 49 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Houthandel Deville - Claeys from Gent, company number BE0463492526, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 87,040 after tax. For that financial year Houthandel Deville - Claeys recorded a gross margin of € 766,238 and equity of € 883,289. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 63,388 to € 87,040. Profitable, and profit is growing. The company holds a healthy buffer. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on July 31, 2026.
€ 883,289
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 87,040
▲ 37% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 214,068
▲ 174% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 90,000 paid out
More than the year’s profit went to the shareholders; reserves fell.
People and assets in 2025
6.6
▲ 1 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 435,096
▲ 23% vs 2024
€ 65,900 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.
€ 37,262
▼ 46% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 510,333
▼ 18% vs 2024
€ 98,147 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 5 years.
€ 395,996
▲ 118% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 57,532
▼ 2% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 671,219 | € 629,565 | € 687,908 | € 766,238 | ▲ 11% |
| Profit after taxes | € 188,484 | € 25,642 | € 63,388 | € 87,040 | ▲ 37% |
| Equity | € 882,219 | € 882,861 | € 886,249 | € 883,289 | |
| Total debts | € 1,549,996 | € 1,478,276 | € 1,412,675 | € 1,558,832 | ▲ 10% |
| Cash | € 371,710 | € 80,142 | € 78,253 | € 214,068 | ▲ 174% |
| Land & buildings | € 579,035 | € 869,571 | € 829,200 | € 837,245 | ▲ 1% |
| Retained profit | € 807,851 | € 808,493 | € 811,881 | € 808,921 | |
| Dividend | € 189,000 | € 25,000 | € 60,000 | € 90,000 | ▲ 50% |
| Bank debt | € 574,233 | € 675,521 | € 624,299 | € 510,333 | ▼ 18% |
| Balance sheet total | € 2,432,216 | € 2,361,137 | € 2,298,924 | € 2,442,121 | ▲ 6% |
| Employees (FTE) | 5.3 | 5.6 | 5.6 | 6.6 | ▲ 1 |
Key figures of Houthandel Deville - Claeys, 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 Houthandel Deville - Claeys?
What happened at Houthandel Deville - Claeys in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 87,040 (▲ 37% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Frederik Schoonjans became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Gent. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 188,484 profit in 2022 to € 87,040 profit in 2025.
Paid € 79,259 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 188,484 profit.
On average € 116,100 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of Deviwi comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
Houthandel Deville - ClaeysBehind Houthandel Deville - Claeys are François Deville, Frederik Schoonjans and Deviwi. The shares are held by Deviwi.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
François Deville
Manager
Frederik Schoonjans
Manager
since 2019
Shareholders
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Industrieweg 114E
9032 Gent
Industrieweg 114
9032 Gent
Active since 6 August 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
- 0463.492.526
- VAT number
- BE 0463.492.526
- Registered office
- Industrieweg 114E, 9032 Gent
- Names & denominations
- Houthandel Deville - Claeys
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 12 June 1998
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 22 Dec 2025
- Activities · NACE
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