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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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Negative equity NBB
More debt than assets in 4 of the last 4 fiscal years.
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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 29 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Bearded Chef Atelier from Gent, company number BE0552998879, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 16,150 after tax. For that financial year Bearded Chef Atelier recorded a gross margin of € 444,235 and equity of € -241,474. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -19,988 to € 16,150. Profitable, and profit is growing. More debts than assets. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on August 31, 2026.
€ -241,474
▲ € 16,150 vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 16,150
▲ still € 19,988 loss in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 66,802
▼ 38% 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 € -324,102.
People and assets in 2025
7.5
▲ 5.2 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 356,609
▲ 201% vs 2024
€ 47,500 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.
€ 9,563
▲ € 8,369 vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 15,000
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 78,134
▼ 23% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 38,972
▲ 11% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 133,103 | € 267,031 | € 140,342 | € 444,235 | ▲ 217% |
| Profit after taxes | € -202,542 | € 40,964 | € -19,988 | € 16,150 | ▲ € 36,137 |
| Equity | € -278,600 | € -237,637 | € -257,624 | € -241,474 | ▲ € 16,150 |
| Total debts | € 733,629 | € 613,382 | € 688,575 | € 619,191 | ▼ 10% |
| Cash | € 13,183 | € 8,063 | € 107,129 | € 66,802 | ▼ 38% |
| Retained profit | € -361,228 | € -320,265 | € -340,252 | € -324,102 | ▲ € 16,150 |
| Bank debt | € 70,202 | € 27,217 | € 0 | € 15,000 | |
| Balance sheet total | € 455,029 | € 375,745 | € 430,951 | € 377,716 | ▼ 12% |
| Employees (FTE) | 4.3 | - | 2.3 | 7.5 | ▲ 5.2 |
Key figures of Bearded Chef Atelier, 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 Bearded Chef Atelier?
What happened at Bearded Chef Atelier in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 16,150. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Nina De Cuyper became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Gent. KBO
- Bearded Chef Concepts BV became a director. NBB
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 202,542 loss in 2022 to € 16,150 profit in 2025.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 40,964 profit.
On average € 59,200 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of BEARDED CHEF CONCEPTS comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
Bearded Chef AtelierBehind Bearded Chef Atelier are Bearded Chef Concepts BV and Nina De Cuyper. The shares are held by BEARDED CHEF CONCEPTS (44.1%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Sam D'huyvetter
since 2014
since 2018
Shareholders
44.1%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Edward Pynaertkaai 115 box //1
9000 Gent
Doorgang der Hallegasten 14
9050 Gent
Active since 27 May 2014
Who else lives here?
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
- 0552.998.879
- VAT number
- BE 0552.998.879
- Registered office
- Edward Pynaertkaai 115 bus //1, 9000 Gent
- Names & denominations
- Bearded Chef Atelier
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 26 May 2014
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 27 Mar 2026
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