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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 54 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Figures corrected NBB
Corrected annual account filed for 2022.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Desmeth from Pepingen, company number BE0546942814, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 346,059 after tax. For that financial year Desmeth recorded a gross margin of € 1.4 million and equity of € 1.3 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 31,462 to € 346,059. Profitable, and profit is growing. The buffer is growing. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on October 31, 2025.
€ 1.3 million
▲ 37% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 346,059
▲ € 314,597 vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 300,908
▲ 68% 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 € 1.1 million.
People and assets in 2025
2.5
▲ 0.4 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 139,733
▲ 49% vs 2024
€ 55,900 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.
€ 634,193
▲ 34% vs 2024
Of which on lease € 618,836.
Debts at end 2025
€ 2.1 million
▲ 18% vs 2024
€ 578,273 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 4 years.
€ 97,088
▼ 43% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 21,449
▲ 125% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 833,888 | € 957,963 | € 850,056 | € 1,389,182 | ▲ 63% |
| Profit after taxes | € 205,525 | € 220,850 | € 31,462 | € 346,059 | ▲ € 314,597 |
| Equity | € 682,819 | € 903,669 | € 935,131 | € 1,281,190 | ▲ 37% |
| Total debts | € 1,918,531 | € 2,161,106 | € 2,225,774 | € 2,427,629 | ▲ 9% |
| Cash | € 365,515 | € 163,488 | € 179,626 | € 300,908 | ▲ 68% |
| Land & buildings | € 25,321 | € 177,595 | € 169,112 | € 159,170 | ▼ 6% |
| Retained profit | € 526,619 | € 747,469 | € 778,931 | € 1,124,990 | ▲ 44% |
| Bank debt | € 1,501,517 | € 1,772,069 | € 1,775,468 | € 2,096,502 | ▲ 18% |
| Balance sheet total | € 2,601,350 | € 3,064,774 | € 3,160,906 | € 3,789,020 | ▲ 20% |
| Employees (FTE) | 2 | 2 | 2.1 | 2.5 | ▲ 0.4 |
Key figures of Desmeth, 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 October 2026.
What happened to Desmeth?
What happened at Desmeth in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 346,059 (▲ € 314,597 vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
- New establishment in Pepingen. KBO
- Jurgen DESMETH became a director. NBB
In short
From € 205,525 profit in 2022 to € 346,059 profit in 2025.
Paid € 19,602 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 346,059 profit.
On average € 555,700 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
Behind Desmeth is Jurgen DESMETH.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Jurgen DESMETH
Director
since 2014
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Brandwacht(P) 2
1670 Pepingen
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0546.942.814
- VAT number
- BE 0546.942.814
- Registered office
- Brandwacht(P) 2, 1670 Pepingen
- Names & denominations
- Desmeth
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 27 February 2014
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