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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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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 7.3 to 5.5.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Vandeputte Optics from Edegem, company number BE0463628722, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 473,414 after tax. For that financial year Vandeputte Optics recorded a gross margin of € 884,151 and equity of € 100,209. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -161,285 to € 473,414. Profitable, and profit is growing. The buffer is growing. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on June 15, 2026.
€ 100,209
▲ € 473,414 vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 473,414
▲ still € 161,285 loss in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 495,826
▲ € 417,808 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 € -41,791.
People and assets in 2025
5.5
▼ 1 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 374,210
▼ 15% vs 2024
€ 68,000 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.
Debts at end 2025
€ 457,393
▼ 23% vs 2024
€ 114,184 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 4 years.
€ 55,120
▼ 60% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 21,062
▼ 64% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 378,204 | € 501,904 | € 451,235 | € 884,151 | ▲ 96% |
| Profit after taxes | € -39,637 | € -42,343 | € -161,285 | € 473,414 | ▲ € 634,699 |
| Equity | € -169,578 | € -211,921 | € -373,206 | € 100,209 | ▲ € 473,414 |
| Total debts | € 821,381 | € 820,916 | € 802,807 | € 547,247 | ▼ 32% |
| Cash | € 108,396 | € 119,786 | € 78,019 | € 495,826 | ▲ € 417,808 |
| Retained profit | € -311,578 | € -353,921 | € -515,206 | € -41,791 | ▲ € 473,414 |
| Bank debt | € 541,950 | € 593,351 | € 593,809 | € 457,393 | ▼ 23% |
| Balance sheet total | € 651,803 | € 608,995 | € 429,601 | € 647,456 | ▲ 51% |
| Employees (FTE) | 6.4 | 7.3 | 6.5 | 5.5 | ▼ 1 |
Key figures of Vandeputte Optics, 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 Vandeputte Optics?
What happened at Vandeputte Optics in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Noaxx stepped down as director. NBB
- Christine Vandeputte stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 473,414. Source: NBB ↗
- Christine Vandeputte became a director. NBB
- Noaxx became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Edegem. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 39,637 loss in 2022 to € 473,414 profit in 2025.
Paid € 3,489 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 473,414 profit.
On average € 160,800 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of VANINVEST comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
Vandeputte OpticsThe shares are held by VANINVEST (30%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Managing director · represented by Michael Vandeputte
Also active at: Merluno Holding, MERLUNO
since 2022 · until 2028
Christine Vandeputte
Managing director
since 2022 · until 2028
Shareholders
30%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Mechelsesteenweg 224 box 2
2650 Edegem
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Details
- Company number
- 0463.628.722
- VAT number
- BE 0463.628.722
- Registered office
- Mechelsesteenweg 224 bus 2, 2650 Edegem
- Names & denominations
- Vandeputte Optics
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 23 June 1998
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 6 Feb 2026
- Contact
- avenue-optics.be
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