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Financials
Financial year 2025
CLAEYS & ENGELS from Watermaal-Bosvoorde, company number BE0473547070, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 4.4 million after tax. For that financial year CLAEYS & ENGELS recorded revenue of € 31.5 million and equity of € 910,366. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 3.3 million to € 4.4 million. Profitable, and profit is growing. 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 May 29, 2026.
€ 910,366
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 4.4 million
▲ 33% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 2.3 million
▲ 207% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 4.4 million paid out
100 % of the profit went to the shareholders, the rest stayed in the company.
People and assets in 2025
45.8
▼ 0.4 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 4.2 million
▲ 3% vs 2024
€ 92,000 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.
€ 458,717
▲ 16% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 3.1 million
▼ 1% vs 2024
€ 458,315 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 7 years.
€ 6.3 million
▲ 35% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 96 days on average.
€ 1.4 million
▲ 13% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 23,254,040 | € 26,985,229 | € 28,743,460 | € 31,464,352 | ▲ 9% |
| Profit after taxes | € 2,095,542 | € 3,253,499 | € 3,283,772 | € 4,370,367 | ▲ 33% |
| Equity | € 910,366 | € 910,366 | € 910,366 | € 910,366 | |
| Total debts | € 10,342,126 | € 13,074,740 | € 14,101,244 | € 17,291,072 | ▲ 23% |
| Cash | € 775,083 | € 1,508,598 | € 746,056 | € 2,289,008 | ▲ 207% |
| Retained profit | € 524,960 | € 524,960 | € 524,960 | € 524,960 | |
| Dividend | € 2,095,542 | € 3,253,499 | € 3,283,772 | € 4,370,367 | ▲ 33% |
| Bank debt | € 1,346,809 | € 2,975,880 | € 3,167,802 | € 3,136,487 | ▼ 1% |
| Balance sheet total | € 11,252,492 | € 13,985,106 | € 15,011,609 | € 18,201,437 | ▲ 21% |
| Employees (FTE) | 45.5 | 47.2 | 46.2 | 45.8 | ▼ 0.4 |
Key figures of CLAEYS & ENGELS, 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 CLAEYS & ENGELS?
What happened at CLAEYS & ENGELS in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 4.4 million (▲ 33% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Frédéric Henry, Association d'avocats BV became a director. NBB
- Kenny Decruyenaere became a director. NBB
- Inger Verhelst BV became a director. NBB
- Olivier Wouters BV became a director. NBB
- Bart Vanschoebeke became a director. NBB
- Chris Engels BV became a director. NBB
- Luc Bihain BV became a director. NBB
In short
From € 2.1 million profit in 2022 to € 4.4 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 472,426 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 4.4 million profit.
Paid out € 13 million in dividends to the owners in total.
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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
The stake of ADVOCAAT ISABELLE DE SOMVIELE, Inger Verhelst, Advocaat Jan Van Gysegem, CHRIS ENGELS, WARD BOUCIQUE, HF LENAERTS comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
CLAEYS & ENGELSBehind CLAEYS & ENGELS are Inger Verhelst BV, Olivier Wouters BV, Bart Vanschoebeke, Chris Engels BV, Luc Bihain BV and Dieter Dejonghe BV. The shares are held by ADVOCAAT ISABELLE DE SOMVIELE (18%), Inger Verhelst (7%), Advocaat Jan Van Gysegem (6.7%), CHRIS ENGELS (6.7%), WARD BOUCIQUE (5.6%) and HF LENAERTS. It owns 20% of IUS LABORIS itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Verhelst Inger
since 2023
Managing director · represented by Wouters Olivier
since 2023
Bart Vanschoebeke
Director
since 2023
Director · represented by Engels Chris
since 2023
Director · represented by BIHAIN Luc
since 2023
Director · represented by Dejonghe Dieter
since 2023
Director · represented by Verslype Jean-Yves
since 2023
Director · represented by Lenaerts Henri-François
since 2023
Frédéric Henry, Association d'avocats BV
Director · represented by Henry Frédéric
since 2024
Director · represented by Adriaens Bart
since 2023
Director · represented by Maes Sophie
since 2023
Director · represented by Isabelle De Somviele
since 2023
Jean-Paul Lacomble - société civile d'avocat BV
Director · represented by Lacomble Jean-Paul
Also active at: JPL INVESTISSEMENTS
since 2023
Director · represented by Bouciqué Ward
since 2023
Director · represented by Jan Van Gysegem
since 2023
Director · represented by Decruyenaere Kenny
since 2024
Shareholders
Participations
20%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Vorstlaan 25
1170 Watermaal-Bosvoorde
Posthofbrug 12
2600 Antwerpen
Active since 14 December 2000
Brugsesteenweg(Kor) 255 box 101
8500 Kortrijk
Active since 14 December 2000
Square des Conduites-d'Eau 7 box bâtiment H
4031 Liège
Active since 14 December 2000
Ferdinand Lousbergskaai 103 box 4-5
9000 Gent
Active since 14 December 2000
Kempische steenweg 309 box 0.04
3500 Hasselt
Active since 1 June 2007
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Details
- Company number
- 0473.547.070
- VAT number
- BE 0473.547.070
- Registered office
- Vorstlaan 25, 1170 Watermaal-Bosvoorde
- Names & denominations
- CLAEYS & ENGELS
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 19 December 2000
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