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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 40 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
DE GROOTE HANS - CHOCOLATERIE from Ieper, company number BE0471401786, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 126,083 after tax. For that financial year DE GROOTE HANS - CHOCOLATERIE recorded a gross margin of € 361,310 and equity of € 1 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 140,778 to € 126,083. 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 October 29, 2025.
€ 1 million
▲ 2% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 126,083
▼ 10% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 72,811
▼ 41% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 105,952 paid out
84 % of the profit went to the shareholders, the rest stayed in the company.
People and assets in 2025
1.8
▲ 0.5 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 66,301
▲ 60% vs 2024
€ 36,800 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.
€ 55,706
▼ 1% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
None
No bank loans on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 12,586
▼ 45% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 10,000
▼ 64% vs 2024
Wages, holiday pay and social contributions still to pay. No outstanding taxes.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 140,816 | € 272,748 | € 356,930 | € 361,310 | ▲ 1% |
| Profit after taxes | € -11,124 | € 124,372 | € 140,778 | € 126,083 | ▼ 10% |
| Equity | € 1,121,372 | € 1,129,581 | € 983,612 | € 1,003,743 | ▲ 2% |
| Total debts | € 27,565 | € 97,287 | € 242,193 | € 191,972 | ▼ 21% |
| Cash | € 51,531 | € 152,704 | € 123,905 | € 72,811 | ▼ 41% |
| Land & buildings | € 401,562 | € 371,978 | € 342,395 | € 314,722 | ▼ 8% |
| Retained profit | € 1,108,972 | € 1,117,181 | € 971,212 | € 991,343 | ▲ 2% |
| Dividend | € 385,178 | € 116,162 | € 286,748 | € 105,952 | ▼ 63% |
| Balance sheet total | € 1,148,936 | € 1,226,869 | € 1,225,804 | € 1,195,715 | ▼ 2% |
| Employees (FTE) | 0.8 | 1 | 1.3 | 1.8 | ▲ 0.5 |
Key figures of DE GROOTE HANS - CHOCOLATERIE, 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 October 2026.
What happened to DE GROOTE HANS - CHOCOLATERIE?
What happened at DE GROOTE HANS - CHOCOLATERIE in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 126,083 (▼ 10% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Ieper. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 11,124 loss in 2022 to € 126,083 profit in 2025.
Paid € 148,178 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 140,778 profit.
On average € 200,700 of value added per employee in 2025.
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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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NMBS 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left ▼ 80%
bpost 18 May 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left from loss to profit
Management
Behind DE GROOTE HANS - CHOCOLATERIE is Hans DE GROOTE.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Hans DE GROOTE
Director
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Grote Markt 7
8900 Ieper
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0471.401.786
- VAT number
- BE 0471.401.786
- Registered office
- Grote Markt 7, 8900 Ieper
- Names & denominations
- DE GROOTE HANS - CHOCOLATERIE
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 14 March 2000
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 6 Nov 2025
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