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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
The Searchers from Antwerpen, company number BE0636797377, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 721,362 after tax. For that financial year The Searchers recorded revenue of € 15.8 million and equity of € 4.5 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 587,507 to € 721,362. 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 July 8, 2026.
€ 4.5 million
▲ 19% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 721,362
▲ 23% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 126,046
▼ 71% 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 € 3.2 million.
People and assets in 2025
18.9
▲ 1.5 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.2 million
▲ 13% vs 2024
€ 60,900 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.
€ 34,189
▲ 24% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 12 million
▲ 32% vs 2024
€ 851,214 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 5 years.
€ 4.4 million
▼ 34% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 299 days on average.
€ 152,868
▼ 71% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | - | - | € 13,334,962 | € 15,752,228 | ▲ 18% |
| Gross margin | € 5,493,977 | € 6,880,503 | - | - | |
| Profit after taxes | € 579,357 | € 756,552 | € 587,507 | € 721,362 | ▲ 23% |
| Equity | € 2,476,010 | € 3,220,691 | € 3,808,198 | € 4,525,373 | ▲ 19% |
| Total debts | € 19,214,030 | € 16,867,284 | € 23,674,358 | € 24,600,395 | ▲ 4% |
| Cash | € 37,274 | € 0 | € 432,746 | € 126,046 | ▼ 71% |
| Retained profit | € 1,192,737 | € 1,937,418 | € 2,524,925 | € 3,233,736 | ▲ 28% |
| Bank debt | € 7,522,178 | € 7,556,196 | € 9,063,939 | € 11,955,221 | ▲ 32% |
| Balance sheet total | € 21,690,040 | € 20,087,975 | € 27,482,556 | € 29,125,768 | ▲ 6% |
| Employees (FTE) | 11.1 | 15.7 | 17.4 | 18.9 | ▲ 1.5 |
Key figures of The Searchers, 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 The Searchers?
What happened at The Searchers in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- OLIVIER VAN DEN BROECK stepped down as director. NBB
- JEAN-MARIE VERHASSELT stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 721,362 (▲ 23% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- ANDRE BOISSIER became a director. NBB
- VECTIS PARTNERS BV stepped down as director. NBB
- ELISE VAN MARCKE stepped down as director. NBB
- VECTIS PARTNERS BV became a director. NBB
- OLIVIER VAN DEN BROECK became a director. NBB
In short
From € 579,357 profit in 2022 to € 721,362 profit in 2025.
Paid € 9,250 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 756,552 profit.
On average € 438,200 of value added per employee in 2023.
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De Lijn 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025
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What was left
€ 20 k ▼ 91%
Money in the bank
€ 178 k ▼ 98%
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Management
The stake of The Finders, VECTIS ARKIV comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
The SearchersBehind The Searchers is ANDRE BOISSIER. The shares are held by The Finders (60.9%) and VECTIS ARKIV (53.2%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
ANDRE BOISSIER
Director
since 2025
Chairman of the board · represented by STEFAAN VANQUAETHEM
Also active at: Vectis Private Equity IV, VECTIS PARTICIPATIES II, VECTIS ARKIV
since 2022 · until 2025
since 2022 · until 2028
JEAN-MARIE VERHASSELT
Director
since 2022 · until 2028
since 2022 · until 2025
Shareholders
60.9%
53.2%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Generaal Van Merlenstraat 46
2600 Antwerpen
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
- 0636.797.377
- VAT number
- BE 0636.797.377
- Registered office
- Generaal Van Merlenstraat 46, 2600 Antwerpen
- Names & denominations
- The Searchers
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 7 September 2015
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- Active · Active since 27 Mar 2026
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