Financials
Financial year 2025
WESTHELLING from Oostende, company number BE0565938877, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 1.8 million after tax. For that financial year WESTHELLING recorded a gross margin of € 5.1 million and equity of € 453,841. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 1.6 million to € 1.8 million. Profitable, and profit is growing. The buffer shrank hard: equity is 55 % below last year. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on May 18, 2026.
€ 453,841
▼ 55% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 1.8 million
▲ 14% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 99,756
▼ 35% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 2.4 million paid out
More than the year’s profit went to the shareholders; reserves fell.
People and assets in 2025
47
▲ 0.8 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 2.5 million
€ 52,300 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.
€ 26,328
▲ 48% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 84,180
▼ 82% vs 2024
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 505,617
▲ 2% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 455,154
▲ 18% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 3,111,687 | € 4,443,148 | € 4,732,965 | € 5,096,187 | ▲ 8% |
| Profit after taxes | € 704,268 | € 1,481,579 | € 1,611,280 | € 1,836,319 | ▲ 14% |
| Equity | € 624,662 | € 1,206,241 | € 1,017,521 | € 453,841 | ▼ 55% |
| Total debts | € 1,511,349 | € 1,333,851 | € 1,691,061 | € 1,222,383 | ▼ 28% |
| Cash | € 422,312 | € 353,034 | € 152,544 | € 99,756 | ▼ 35% |
| Land & buildings | € 42,057 | € 42,262 | € 30,948 | € 22,602 | ▼ 27% |
| Retained profit | € 561,662 | € 1,143,241 | € 954,521 | € 390,841 | ▼ 59% |
| Dividend | € 1,350,000 | € 900,000 | € 1,800,000 | € 2,400,000 | ▲ 33% |
| Bank debt | € 0 | € 0 | € 477,810 | € 84,180 | ▼ 82% |
| Balance sheet total | € 2,136,011 | € 2,540,092 | € 2,708,583 | € 1,676,223 | ▼ 38% |
| Employees (FTE) | 45.5 | 43.6 | 46.2 | 47 | ▲ 0.8 |
Key figures of WESTHELLING, 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 WESTHELLING?
What happened at WESTHELLING in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Vercaemst BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Andromeda Invest NV stepped down as director. NBB
- Depoorter Immobiliën NV stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 1.8 million (▲ 14% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Oostende. KBO
- Vercaemst BV became a director. NBB
- Andromeda Invest NV became a director. NBB
- Depoorter Immobiliën NV became a director. NBB
In short
From € 704,268 profit in 2022 to € 1.8 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 2 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 1.8 million profit.
On average € 108,400 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of 6 STONES, DEPOORTER IMMOBILIEN comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
WESTHELLINGThe shares are held by 6 STONES (33.3%) and DEPOORTER IMMOBILIEN (33.3%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Managing director · represented by Xavier Vercaemst
Also active at: HOTEL HELIOS PATRIMONIUM, ACCENT Hotels, ANDROMEDA INVEST, HOTEL HELIOS INVEST, Hotel Helios, UPSTAIRS OOSTENDE PATRIMONIUM, UPSTAIRS OOSTENDE UITBATING, HOTEL INVESTMENT FUND +5 more
since 2023 · until 2028
since 2023 · until 2028
Director · represented by Charles Depoorter
Also active at: Andromeda Hotel, HOTEL HELIOS PATRIMONIUM, BOUQUET, ANDROMEDA INVEST, HOTEL HELIOS INVEST, Hotel Helios, UPSTAIRS OOSTENDE PATRIMONIUM, UPSTAIRS OOSTENDE UITBATING +3 more
since 2023 · until 2028
Shareholders
33.3%
33.3%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Kursaal-Westhelling 5
8400 Oostende
Kursaal-Westhelling 4
8400 Oostende
Active since 29 March 2024
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 2 companies are registered at this address.
All companies at this address →What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0565.938.877
- VAT number
- BE 0565.938.877
- Registered office
- Kursaal-Westhelling 5, 8400 Oostende
- Names & denominations
- WESTHELLING
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 24 October 2014
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 25 Mar 2026
- Activities · NACE
Hotels en dergelijke accommodatie
Activiteiten van eetgelegenheden met volledige bediening
Organisatie van congressen en beurzen
Activiteiten van kuuroorden, sauna’s en stoombaden
Sauna's, solaria, baden enz.
Eetgelegenheden met volledige bediening