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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 35 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
FRANCIS MAERE FINE ARTS from Deinze, company number BE0477816357, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 55,432 after tax. For that financial year FRANCIS MAERE FINE ARTS recorded a gross margin of € 203,308 and equity of € 1 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 125,897 to € 55,432. The company is profitable. The company holds a healthy buffer. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on July 15, 2026.
€ 1 million
▼ 5% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 55,432
▼ 56% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 250,139
▼ 9% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 115,025 paid out
More than the year’s profit went to the shareholders; reserves fell.
People and assets in 2025
0.1
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 3,975
Payroll staff only. What the director pays themselves is already netted into the gross margin and is not shown separately in the accounts.
€ 7,610
▼ 42% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 1.2 million
€ 88,696 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 9 years.
€ 265,408
▼ 13% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 4,381
▼ 85% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 466,059 | € 426,351 | € 303,537 | € 203,308 | ▼ 33% |
| Profit after taxes | € 179,128 | € 232,907 | € 125,897 | € 55,432 | ▼ 56% |
| Equity | € 974,581 | € 1,100,798 | € 1,098,098 | € 1,038,505 | ▼ 5% |
| Total debts | € 2,399,051 | € 2,001,331 | € 1,767,485 | € 1,502,466 | ▼ 15% |
| Cash | € 653,440 | € 401,294 | € 274,737 | € 250,139 | ▼ 9% |
| Land & buildings | € 1,193,188 | € 1,187,413 | € 1,169,953 | € 1,152,493 | ▼ 1% |
| Retained profit | € 955,981 | € 1,082,198 | € 1,079,498 | € 1,019,905 | ▼ 6% |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 106,690 | € 128,597 | € 115,025 | ▼ 11% |
| Bank debt | € 1,475,417 | € 1,221,682 | € 1,199,821 | € 1,199,455 | |
| Balance sheet total | € 3,475,258 | € 3,203,754 | € 2,967,208 | € 2,619,565 | ▼ 12% |
| Employees (FTE) | 0.6 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 |
Key figures of FRANCIS MAERE FINE ARTS, 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 FRANCIS MAERE FINE ARTS?
What happened at FRANCIS MAERE FINE ARTS in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 55,432 (▼ 56% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Gent. KBO
- New establishment in Deinze. KBO
- Francis Maere became a director. NBB
- Sylvie Martens became a director. NBB
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 179,128 profit in 2022 to € 55,432 profit in 2025.
Paid € 282,079 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 232,907 profit.
Paid out € 350,312 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
Behind FRANCIS MAERE FINE ARTS are Francis Maere and Sylvie Martens.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Francis Maere
Director
since 2002
Sylvie Martens
Director
since 2002
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Ooidonkdreef 8
9800 Deinze
Ooidonkdreef 5
9800 Deinze
Active since 12 August 2002
Kouter 172
9000 Gent
Active since 1 August 2008
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Details
- Company number
- 0477.816.357
- VAT number
- BE 0477.816.357
- Registered office
- Ooidonkdreef 8, 9800 Deinze
- Names & denominations
- FRANCIS MAERE FINE ARTS
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 21 June 2002
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 28 Nov 2025
- Contact
- francismaerefinearts.be
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