Warning lights
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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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 50 to 41.1.
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Figures corrected NBB
Corrected annual account filed for 2025.
Financials
Financial year 2025
BELGABROED from Merksplas, company number BE0473704349, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 8.5 million after tax. For that financial year BELGABROED recorded revenue of € 114.9 million and equity of € 28.4 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 8.2 million to € 8.5 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 October 20, 2026.
€ 28.4 million
▲ 43% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 8.5 million
▲ 4% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 708,337
▲ 140% 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 € 25.4 million.
People and assets in 2025
41.1
▼ 5.2 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 2.8 million
▼ 9% vs 2024
€ 67,600 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.
€ 553,620
▲ 66% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 1.8 million
▲ 103% vs 2024
€ 395,376 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 4 years.
€ 7.2 million
▼ 48% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 25 days on average.
€ 465,230
▼ 42% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2021 | 2022 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Revenue | € 97,924,367 | € 102,222,976 | € 107,636,379 | € 114,899,224 | ▲ 7% |
| Profit after taxes | € 872,572 | € 2,111,260 | € 8,221,105 | € 8,549,219 | ▲ 4% |
| Equity | € 21,005,648 | € 23,116,908 | € 19,848,407 | € 28,397,626 | ▲ 43% |
| Total debts | € 25,359,529 | € 22,261,669 | € 15,976,231 | € 10,837,410 | ▼ 32% |
| Cash | € 1,591,842 | € 701,816 | € 295,449 | € 708,337 | ▲ 140% |
| Land & buildings | € 2,080,997 | € 1,897,480 | € 1,526,455 | € 1,635,469 | ▲ 7% |
| Retained profit | € 15,544,148 | € 17,655,408 | € 16,868,475 | € 25,417,694 | ▲ 51% |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 0 | € 3,000,000 | € 0 | ▼ 100% |
| Bank debt | € 9,384,738 | € 7,620,107 | € 864,612 | € 1,754,592 | ▲ 103% |
| Balance sheet total | € 46,451,350 | € 45,448,735 | € 35,865,534 | € 39,261,786 | ▲ 9% |
| Employees (FTE) | 49.9 | 50 | 46.3 | 41.1 | ▼ 5.2 |
Key figures of BELGABROED, fiscal years 2021 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 BELGABROED?
What happened at BELGABROED in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Yellow Bird BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Jan Destrooper stepped down as director. NBB
- Carl Destrooper stepped down as director. NBB
- JEMIMO BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Corrected annual accounts filed for financial year 2025. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Ravels. KBO
- New establishment in Essen. KBO
- Yellow Bird BV became a director. NBB
In short
From € 872,572 profit in 2021 to € 8.5 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 5 million in corporate taxes since 2021.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 8.5 million profit.
Paid out € 3 million in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
The stake of Yellow Bird comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
BELGABROEDThe shares are held by Yellow Bird (100%). It owns 100% of Incubel itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Steven Vervaeke
Also active at: Pollo, L'OEUF D'OR, GalluScent, HFHC, VERVAEKE BELAVI, INCUBEL
since 2026 · until 2031
since 2023 · until 2029
since 2023 · until 2029
since 2023 · until 2029
Shareholders
100%
Participations
100%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Steenweg op Hoogstraten 141
2330 Merksplas
Hoekeinde 100
2330 Merksplas
Active since 1 January 2009
Kerkstraat 45
2380 Ravels
Active since 1 June 2026
Noordeneind 21
2910 Essen
Active since 1 June 2026
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 4 companies are registered at this address.
All companies at this address →What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0473.704.349
- VAT number
- BE 0473.704.349
- Registered office
- Steenweg op Hoogstraten 141, 2330 Merksplas
- Names & denominations
- BELGABROED
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 22 December 2000
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 1 Jan 2001
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