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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 54 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
GROUPE FRANCOIS from Virton, company number BE0464376018, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 2.2 million after tax. For that financial year GROUPE FRANCOIS recorded revenue of € 78.7 million and equity of € 64.5 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 6 million to € 2.2 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 July 6, 2026.
€ 64.5 million
▲ 4% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 2.2 million
▼ 63% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 3.9 million
▲ 160% 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 € 52 million.
People and assets in 2025
124.6
▲ 3.3 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 11.1 million
▲ 6% vs 2024
€ 88,700 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.
€ 28.5 million
▲ € 27.6 million vs 2024
Of which on lease € 27.8 million.
Debts at end 2025
€ 64.7 million
▲ 38% vs 2024
€ 2.6 million is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 17 years.
€ 6.5 million
▼ 31% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 44 days on average.
€ 1.9 million
▲ 2% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 47,208,026 | € 78,441,911 | € 70,464,708 | € 78,661,921 | ▲ 12% |
| Profit after taxes | € 13,349,515 | € 15,931,840 | € 6,008,415 | € 2,214,270 | ▼ 63% |
| Equity | € 40,114,367 | € 56,163,848 | € 62,249,905 | € 64,461,815 | ▲ 4% |
| Total debts | € 40,087,431 | € 42,546,706 | € 75,783,376 | € 93,162,504 | ▲ 23% |
| Cash | € 1,431,198 | € 4,940,428 | € 1,480,806 | € 3,857,002 | ▲ 160% |
| Land & buildings | € 4,362,221 | € 9,087,750 | € 16,507,122 | € 20,997,549 | ▲ 27% |
| Retained profit | € 27,828,667 | € 43,740,925 | € 49,749,340 | € 51,963,610 | ▲ 4% |
| Bank debt | € 15,112,535 | € 27,887,676 | € 46,995,998 | € 64,726,904 | ▲ 38% |
| Balance sheet total | € 80,209,789 | € 98,766,658 | € 138,077,761 | € 157,661,091 | ▲ 14% |
| Employees (FTE) | 57.3 | 124.9 | 121.3 | 124.6 | ▲ 3.3 |
Key figures of GROUPE FRANCOIS, 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 GROUPE FRANCOIS?
What happened at GROUPE FRANCOIS in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Groupe François Holding SA stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 2.2 million (▼ 63% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Groupe François Holding SA became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Thimister-Clermont. KBO
- New establishment in Virton. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
- New establishment in Virton. KBO
In short
From € 13.3 million profit in 2022 to € 2.2 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 9.1 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 15.9 million profit.
Pays suppliers within 44 days on average.
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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
It owns 100% of SCI CAULA, 100% of CDS EQUIPMENTS and 100% of LOGICO itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Ulrich FRANCOIS
since 2021 · until 2027
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Zon.Ind. de Ruette-Latour,Ruette SN
6760 Virton
Rue du Corbé, Bleid 3
6760 Virton
Active since 1 January 1984
Zon.Ind. de Ruette-Latour,Ruette 13
6760 Virton
Active since 21 October 1998
Route Zénobe Gramme 16
4890 Thimister-Clermont
Active since 24 April 2013
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 2 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0464.376.018
- VAT number
- BE 0464.376.018
- Registered office
- Zon.Ind. de Ruette-Latour,Ruette SN, 6760 Virton
- Names & denominations
- GROUPE FRANCOIS
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 20 October 1998
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 19 Dec 2025
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