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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 35 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
HET KRANTENPANDJE from Lommel, company number BE0465110050, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 61,366 after tax. For that financial year HET KRANTENPANDJE recorded a gross margin of € 192,620 and equity of € 85,998. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -28,027 to € 61,366. 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 August 28, 2026.
€ 85,998
▲ 249% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 61,366
▲ still € 28,027 loss in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 65,397
▲ 270% 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 € 79,798.
People and assets in 2025
2.2
▲ 0.2 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 80,389
▲ 12% vs 2024
€ 36,500 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.
€ 61,065
▲ € 55,418 vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 233,665
▼ 8% vs 2024
€ 14,771 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 16 years.
€ 45,216
▲ 45% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 62,833
▲ 40% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 109,021 | € 112,163 | € 104,279 | € 192,620 | ▲ 85% |
| Profit after taxes | € -18,588 | € -3,486 | € -28,027 | € 61,366 | ▲ € 89,393 |
| Equity | € 56,145 | € 52,660 | € 24,632 | € 85,998 | ▲ 249% |
| Total debts | € 482,687 | € 351,918 | € 338,321 | € 452,123 | ▲ 34% |
| Cash | € 2,897 | € 16,365 | € 17,667 | € 65,397 | ▲ 270% |
| Land & buildings | € 349,458 | € 270,472 | € 252,895 | € 235,318 | ▼ 7% |
| Retained profit | € 49,945 | € 46,460 | € 18,432 | € 79,798 | ▲ € 61,366 |
| Bank debt | € 307,372 | € 278,545 | € 253,857 | € 233,665 | ▼ 8% |
| Balance sheet total | € 538,833 | € 404,577 | € 362,953 | € 538,121 | ▲ 48% |
| Employees (FTE) | - | 2.3 | 2 | 2.2 | ▲ 0.2 |
Key figures of HET KRANTENPANDJE, 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 HET KRANTENPANDJE?
What happened at HET KRANTENPANDJE in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 61,366. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Karen Meeus became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Lommel. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 18,588 loss in 2022 to € 61,366 profit in 2025.
Paid € 27,129 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 61,366 profit.
On average € 87,600 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
Behind HET KRANTENPANDJE is Karen Meeus.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Karen Meeus
Director
since 2022
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Leuken 118
3920 Lommel
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0465.110.050
- VAT number
- BE 0465.110.050
- Registered office
- Leuken 118, 3920 Lommel
- Names & denominations
- HET KRANTENPANDJE
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 19 January 1999
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 29 Jul 2024
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