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 10.9 to 7.5.
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Busy address KBO
11 other companies have their registered office at the same address; threshold 10.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Bekaert Wire Rope Industry NV from Zwevegem, company number BE0550983358, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 15.3 million after tax. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 21.9 million to € 15.3 million. The company is profitable. 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 May 22, 2026.
€ 187.9 million
▲ 9% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 15.3 million
▼ 30% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
Stays in the company
No dividend for 2025. Retained profit grew to € 39.4 million.
People and assets in 2025
7.5
▼ 1.7 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.7 million
▼ 41% vs 2024
€ 221,600 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.
Debts at end 2025
None
No bank loans on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 1.3 million
▲ 8% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 104 days on average.
€ 80,338
▼ 82% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Profit after taxes | € 3,594,008 | € 32,151,681 | € 21,923,658 | € 15,316,045 | ▼ 30% |
| Equity | € 148,488,021 | € 150,639,703 | € 172,563,361 | € 187,879,405 | ▲ 9% |
| Total debts | € 1,937,598 | € 31,954,888 | € 1,595,069 | € 1,333,490 | ▼ 16% |
| Retained profit | € -104,622,342 | € 2,139,703 | € 24,063,361 | € 39,379,405 | ▲ 64% |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 30,000,000 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Balance sheet total | € 150,718,244 | € 182,857,250 | € 174,209,113 | € 189,237,241 | ▲ 9% |
| Employees (FTE) | 7.9 | 10.9 | 9.2 | 7.5 | ▼ 1.7 |
Key figures of Bekaert Wire Rope Industry NV, 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 Bekaert Wire Rope Industry NV?
What happened at Bekaert Wire Rope Industry NV in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Piet Berens stepped down as director. NBB
- Erik Jagers stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 15.3 million (▼ 30% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Raf Rentmeesters stepped down as director. NBB
- Raf Rentmeesters became a director. NBB
- Piet Berens became a director. NBB
- Erik Jagers became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Zwevegem. KBO
In short
From € 3.6 million profit in 2022 to € 15.3 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 1.1 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 32.2 million profit.
Paid out € 30 million 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
It owns 100% of Bekaert Wire Ropes Pty Ltd, 100% of Wire Rope Industries Ltd., 100% of Bekaert Ropes Chili S.A., 100% of Visiontek Engineering S.r.l., 100% of Bekaert Advanced Cords Aalter N.V. and 100% of Bekaert (Shenyang) Advanced Cords Co., Ltd. itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Piet Berens
Director
since 2025 · until 2027
Raf Rentmeesters
Director
since 2025 · until 2026
since 2024 · until 2027
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Bekaertstraat(Z) 2
8550 Zwevegem
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Details
- Company number
- 0550.983.358
- VAT number
- BE 0550.983.358
- Registered office
- Bekaertstraat(Z) 2, 8550 Zwevegem
- Names & denominations
- Bekaert Wire Rope Industry NV
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 9 April 2014
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