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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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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 47 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 50.7 to 41.2.
Financials
Financial year 2025
MEYNENDONCKX CHOCOLATIER from Oud-Turnhout, company number BE0468483472, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 155,802 after tax. For that financial year MEYNENDONCKX CHOCOLATIER recorded a gross margin of € 3 million and equity of € 560,894. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 202,995 to € 155,802. The company is profitable. The company holds a healthy buffer. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on June 30, 2026.
€ 560,894
▼ 20% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 155,802
▼ 23% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 230,988
▲ 56% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 300,000 paid out
More than the year’s profit went to the shareholders; reserves fell.
People and assets in 2025
41.2
▼ 4.1 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 2.1 million
▼ 6% vs 2024
€ 51,100 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.
€ 1.2 million
▼ 17% vs 2024
Of which on lease € 1.1 million.
Debts at end 2025
€ 5.8 million
▲ 19% vs 2024
€ 3.4 million is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 2 years.
€ 982,900
▲ 130% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 140,862
▼ 42% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 3,557,294 | € 3,352,172 | € 3,151,255 | € 2,971,026 | ▼ 6% |
| Profit after taxes | € 704,789 | € 222,448 | € 202,995 | € 155,802 | ▼ 23% |
| Equity | € 800,876 | € 802,097 | € 705,092 | € 560,894 | ▼ 20% |
| Total debts | € 6,115,802 | € 5,691,677 | € 5,828,619 | € 7,200,891 | ▲ 24% |
| Cash | € 99,446 | € 301,627 | € 147,706 | € 230,988 | ▲ 56% |
| Land & buildings | € 1,259,959 | € 1,217,297 | € 1,142,513 | € 1,977,452 | ▲ 73% |
| Retained profit | € 614,476 | € 615,697 | € 518,692 | € 374,494 | ▼ 28% |
| Dividend | € 326,941 | € 221,226 | € 300,000 | € 300,000 | |
| Bank debt | € 5,152,448 | € 4,639,289 | € 4,859,178 | € 5,777,129 | ▲ 19% |
| Balance sheet total | € 6,916,677 | € 6,493,774 | € 6,533,711 | € 7,761,785 | ▲ 19% |
| Employees (FTE) | 46.8 | 50.7 | 45.3 | 41.2 | ▼ 4.1 |
Key figures of MEYNENDONCKX CHOCOLATIER, 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 MEYNENDONCKX CHOCOLATIER?
What happened at MEYNENDONCKX CHOCOLATIER in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 155,802 (▼ 23% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Oud-Turnhout. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 704,789 profit in 2022 to € 155,802 profit in 2025.
Paid € 441,678 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 704,789 profit.
On average € 72,100 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of MeyCo Management, Meynendonckx Beheer comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
MEYNENDONCKX CHOCOLATIERBehind MEYNENDONCKX CHOCOLATIER are Marie-Therese De Visscher, Patrick Maria Meynendonckx, MeyCo Management, Meynendonckx Beheer, Johan Maria Meynendonckx and Karin Francisca Aerts. The shares are held by MeyCo Management (50%) and Meynendonckx Beheer (50%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Ruben Meynendonckx
Director · represented by Dieter René Meynendonckx
Also active at: MEYNENDONCKX, MEYNOR CREATIES
Karin Francisca Aerts
Director
Shareholders
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Ambachtstraat 5
2360 Oud-Turnhout
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 1 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0468.483.472
- VAT number
- BE 0468.483.472
- Registered office
- Ambachtstraat 5, 2360 Oud-Turnhout
- Names & denominations
- MEYNENDONCKX CHOCOLATIER
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 16 December 1999
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 20 Dec 2024
- Activities · NACE
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