Financials
Financial year 2025
Worth noting
- Figures corrected afterwards (2024).
Gross margin
€ 0
Profit
Growing€ 127.1 million
▲ 126% vs 2024
Debts
Low€ 53.5 million
▼ 40% vs 2024
BROWNING from Herstal, company number BE0465800136, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 127.1 million after tax. For that financial year BROWNING recorded a gross margin of € 0 and equity of € 121.8 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 56.3 million to € 127.1 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 June 22, 2026.
What happened at BROWNING?
What happened at BROWNING in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Fabienne BOZET stepped down as director. NBB
- Emmanuel BOIS D'ENGHIEN stepped down as director. NBB
- Derrick-Philippe GOSSELIN stepped down as director. NBB
- Marie-Kristine VANBOCKESTAL stepped down as director. NBB
- Olivier VANDERIJST stepped down as director. NBB
- Julien COMPERE stepped down as director. NBB
- Astrid PIERON stepped down as director. NBB
- Yves PRETE stepped down as director. NBB
In short
From € 16.7 million profit in 2021 to € 127.1 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 3,615 in corporate taxes since 2021.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 127.1 million profit.
Paid out € 231.7 million in dividends to the owners in total.
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Management
The shares are held by FN BROWNING GROUP SA (100%) and FN HERSTAL SA (0%). It owns 100% of BWA, 100% of BROWNING INTERNATIONAL, 99.7% of BROWNING VIANA and BROWNING FRANCE itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
since 2023 · until 2029
since 2021 · until 2026
since 2023 · until 2029
Julien COMPERE
Director, Managing director
Also active at: HERSTAL GROUP SERVICES, FN HERSTAL, FN Browning Group
since 2021 · until 2026
since 2021 · until 2026
since 2023 · until 2029
since 2021 · until 2026
since 2025 · until 2026
since 2021 · until 2026
since 2021 · until 2025
since 2023 · until 2029
Shareholders
Participations
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Voie de Liège 33
4040 Herstal
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 7 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0465.800.136
- VAT number
- BE 0465.800.136
- Registered office
- Voie de Liège 33, 4040 Herstal
- Names & denominations
- BROWNING
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 6 April 1999
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 1 Jan 2001