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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2025 and 2026.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 3.5 to 1.4.
Financials
Financial year 2026
FRESH SALADS from Hooglede, company number BE0674502366, closed financial year 2026 with a result of € -8,612 after tax. For that financial year FRESH SALADS recorded a gross margin of € 151,761 and equity of € 271,994. Compared with financial year 2025, the result moved from € -144,903 to € -8,612. The company made a loss. The company holds a healthy buffer. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on November 2, 2026.
€ 271,994
▼ 4% vs 2025
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -8,612
▲ 94 % less loss than in 2025
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 48,036
▲ 47% vs 2025
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 253,394.
People and assets in 2026
1.4
▼ 1.5 vs 2025
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 47,782
▼ 50% vs 2025
€ 34,100 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.
€ 69,854
▼ 19% vs 2025
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2026
€ 546,274
▲ 19% vs 2025
€ 73,238 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 7 years.
€ 272,867
▲ 55% vs 2025
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 15,954
▼ 31% vs 2025
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | Change 2025 → 2026 | |
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| Gross margin | € 302,548 | € 272,719 | € 56,635 | € 151,761 | ▲ 168% |
| Profit after taxes | € 159,007 | € 66,160 | € -144,903 | € -8,612 | ▲ € 136,291 |
| Equity | € 421,557 | € 428,893 | € 282,272 | € 271,994 | ▼ 4% |
| Total debts | € 746,715 | € 792,779 | € 701,521 | € 892,129 | ▲ 27% |
| Cash | € 126,766 | € 122,787 | € 32,779 | € 48,036 | ▲ 47% |
| Land & buildings | € 487,365 | € 470,156 | € 463,862 | € 436,689 | ▼ 6% |
| Retained profit | € 402,957 | € 410,293 | € 263,672 | € 253,394 | ▼ 4% |
| Dividend | € 119,250 | € 58,824 | € 1,718 | € 1,666 | ▼ 3% |
| Bank debt | € 557,336 | € 522,131 | € 457,899 | € 546,274 | ▲ 19% |
| Balance sheet total | € 1,168,272 | € 1,221,672 | € 983,794 | € 1,164,123 | ▲ 18% |
| Employees (FTE) | 2.3 | 3.5 | 2.9 | 1.4 | ▼ 1.5 |
By gross margin, FRESH SALADS ranks 4th of 6 companies with main activity “Teelt van groenten, meloenen en wortel- en knolgewassen” in Hooglede that publish figures (fiscal year 2026).
Key figures of FRESH SALADS, fiscal years 2023 to 2026, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2027) expected before 31 October 2027.
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What happened to FRESH SALADS?
What happened at FRESH SALADS in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2026: loss of € 8,612. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Incorporation, published in the Gazette. Source: Staatsblad ↗
- New establishment in Hooglede. KBO
- Gino Buffel became a director. NBB
In short
From € 159,007 profit in 2023 to € 8,612 loss in 2026.
Paid € 27,712 in corporate taxes since 2023.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 159,007 profit.
On average € 108,400 of value added per employee in 2026.
Management
Behind FRESH SALADS is Gino Buffel.
Directors
According to the 2026 annual accounts
Gino Buffel
Director
since 2017
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Grote Hazewindstraat 10
8830 Hooglede
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
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Shareholders according to the Official Gazette deeds
Who contributed at incorporation and at capital increases, with the deed as source. Later share transfers are not published in the Gazette.
Incorporation
Source: Deed ↗- BUFFEL Gino Wilfried(oprichter) 50%
- DERYNCK Isabelle Zoë Omer(oprichter) 50%
Details
- Company number
- 0674.502.366
- VAT number
- BE 0674.502.366
- Registered office
- Grote Hazewindstraat 10, 8830 Hooglede
- Names & denominations
- FRESH SALADS
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 31 March 2017
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 5 Mar 2026
- Activities · NACE
Teelt van groenten, meloenen en wortel- en knolgewassen