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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 48 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 32.6 to 24.7.
Financials
Financial year 2025
VAN MEERBEECK METALEN - VAN MEERBEECK METAUX from Hoogstraten, company number BE0477773696, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 23,564 after tax. For that financial year VAN MEERBEECK METALEN - VAN MEERBEECK METAUX recorded revenue of € 12.7 million and equity of € 6.6 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 11,520 to € 23,564. 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.
€ 6.6 million
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 23,564
▲ 105% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 151,496
▲ 3% 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 € 4.1 million.
People and assets in 2025
24.7
▼ 1.4 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 2 million
€ 80,100 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.
€ 48,661
▼ 42% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 8.3 million
▼ 12% vs 2024
€ 1.1 million is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 8 years.
€ 883,031
▲ 45% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 28 days on average.
€ 320,415
▼ 28% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Revenue | € 21,333,149 | € 14,047,559 | € 10,463,690 | € 12,709,534 | ▲ 21% |
| Profit after taxes | € 1,172,853 | € -1,043,341 | € 11,520 | € 23,564 | ▲ 105% |
| Equity | € 7,603,293 | € 6,559,952 | € 6,571,471 | € 6,595,035 | |
| Total debts | € 5,141,898 | € 14,352,655 | € 11,606,747 | € 11,177,890 | ▼ 4% |
| Cash | € 1,037,925 | € 1,039,394 | € 147,257 | € 151,496 | ▲ 3% |
| Land & buildings | € 2,373,649 | € 2,233,445 | € 2,093,240 | € 1,953,035 | ▼ 7% |
| Retained profit | € 5,103,293 | € 4,059,952 | € 4,071,471 | € 4,095,035 | ▲ 1% |
| Dividend | € 400,000 | € 0 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Bank debt | € 2,746,419 | € 12,541,786 | € 9,398,438 | € 8,257,963 | ▼ 12% |
| Balance sheet total | € 12,750,762 | € 20,917,830 | € 18,183,094 | € 17,777,452 | ▼ 2% |
| Employees (FTE) | 33.9 | 32.6 | 26.1 | 24.7 | ▼ 1.4 |
Key figures of VAN MEERBEECK METALEN - VAN MEERBEECK METAUX, 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 VAN MEERBEECK METALEN - VAN MEERBEECK METAUX?
What happened at VAN MEERBEECK METALEN - VAN MEERBEECK METAUX in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 23,564 (▲ 105% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- VMD Invest NV stepped down as director. NBB
- Dimitri Van Meerbeeck stepped down as director. NBB
- André Leclercq stepped down as director. NBB
- Thomas Vanzegbroek stepped down as director. NBB
- VMD Invest NV became a director. NBB
- Dimitri Van Meerbeeck became a director. NBB
- André Leclercq became a director. NBB
In short
From € 1.2 million profit in 2022 to € 23,564 profit in 2025.
Paid € 347,039 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 1.2 million profit.
Paid out € 400,000 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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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
The stake of VMD INVEST comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
VAN MEERBEECK METALEN - VAN MEERBEECK METAUXThe shares are held by VMD INVEST (100%). It owns 100% of Staal Service Vlaanderen and 99.5% of Metal-Gent itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by François Crop
Also active at: STAAL SERVICE VLAANDEREN, VMD Real Estate, METAFRANC, VM STEEL, LINEABERTOMANI, METAL-GENT
since 2023 · until 2026
Dimitri Van Meerbeeck
Director
since 2023 · until 2026
André Leclercq
Director
since 2023 · until 2026
Thomas Vanzegbroek
Director
since 2023 · until 2026
Shareholders
100%
Participations
99.5%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Sint Lenaartseweg 44
2320 Hoogstraten
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A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 3 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0477.773.696
- VAT number
- BE 0477.773.696
- Registered office
- Sint Lenaartseweg 44, 2320 Hoogstraten
- Names & denominations
- VAN MEERBEECK METALEN - VAN MEERBEECK METAUX
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 17 June 2002
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