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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 64 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Board fully replaced NBB
No director from three years ago is still active according to annual account 2025.
Financials
Financial year 2025
HYGIENE & EXPERTISE from Estaimpuis, company number BE0523915806, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 19,711 after tax. For that financial year HYGIENE & EXPERTISE recorded a gross margin of € 2.3 million and equity of € 1.1 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 295,593 to € 19,711. The company is profitable. The company holds a healthy buffer. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on July 13, 2026.
€ 1.1 million
▼ 1% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 19,711
▼ 93% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 23,205
▲ 19% 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 € 339,555.
People and assets in 2025
30.1
▲ 7.7 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.7 million
▲ 30% vs 2024
€ 57,700 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.
€ 63,026
▼ 10% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 2.7 million
▼ 15% vs 2024
€ 447,421 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 3 years.
€ 313,585
▼ 15% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 281,732
▲ 38% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 1,890,686 | € 1,683,060 | € 2,178,837 | € 2,282,146 | ▲ 5% |
| Profit after taxes | € 13,569 | € -313,960 | € 295,593 | € 19,711 | ▼ 93% |
| Equity | € 965,279 | € 917,538 | € 1,098,260 | € 1,084,018 | ▼ 1% |
| Total debts | € 4,057,911 | € 4,092,644 | € 3,737,150 | € 3,296,875 | ▼ 12% |
| Cash | € 361,228 | € 19,225 | € 19,536 | € 23,205 | ▲ 19% |
| Land & buildings | € 916,514 | € 907,643 | € 824,381 | € 754,153 | ▼ 9% |
| Retained profit | € 338,210 | € 24,250 | € 319,844 | € 339,555 | ▲ 6% |
| Bank debt | € 3,474,754 | € 3,307,825 | € 3,164,148 | € 2,688,851 | ▼ 15% |
| Balance sheet total | € 5,023,190 | € 5,010,182 | € 4,835,410 | € 4,380,892 | ▼ 9% |
| Employees (FTE) | 23.3 | 20.6 | 22.4 | 30.1 | ▲ 7.7 |
Key figures of HYGIENE & EXPERTISE, 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 HYGIENE & EXPERTISE?
What happened at HYGIENE & EXPERTISE in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 19,711 (▼ 93% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Liège. KBO
- New establishment in Anderlecht. KBO
- Thierry DESMET became a director. NBB
- TRAINING & CONSULTING TW stepped down as director. NBB
- Thomas DAGUENEAU became a director. NBB
- TECHNICAL CONSULTING CONCEPT stepped down as director. NBB
- New establishment in Charleroi. KBO
In short
From € 13,569 profit in 2022 to € 19,711 profit in 2025.
Paid € 41,912 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 295,593 profit.
On average € 75,800 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of SOFIED Belgium, SOCARIS, PHARMA BIO CONSULT, TECHNICAL CONSULTING CONCEPT, TRAINING & CONSULTING TW comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
HYGIENE & EXPERTISEBehind HYGIENE & EXPERTISE are Thierry DESMET and Thomas DAGUENEAU. The shares are held by SOFIED Belgium (60.3%), SOCARIS (9.5%), PHARMA BIO CONSULT (6.7%), TECHNICAL CONSULTING CONCEPT (6.7%) and TRAINING & CONSULTING TW (6.7%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Thierry DESMET
Director
since 2026
since 2025
since 2015 · until 2026
since 2015 · until 2025
Shareholders
60.3%
9.5%
6.7%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Porte des Bâtisseurs(EST) 145
7730 Estaimpuis
Rue Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 14
6041 Charleroi
Active since 1 October 2019
Boulevard de Patience et Beaujonc 3
4000 Liège
Active since 1 July 2026
Paapsemlaan 20
1070 Anderlecht
Active since 1 July 2026
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 2 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0523.915.806
- VAT number
- BE 0523.915.806
- Registered office
- Porte des Bâtisseurs(EST) 145, 7730 Estaimpuis
- Names & denominations
- HYGIENE & EXPERTISE · HeX
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 18 March 2013
- Peppol
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