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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 2 of the last 4 fiscal years.
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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2024 and 2025.
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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 19 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
DE SMEDERIJ from Herent, company number BE0680538340, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -32,149 after tax. For that financial year DE SMEDERIJ recorded a gross margin of € 332,931 and equity of € -73,320. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -135,339 to € -32,149. The company made a loss. 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 10, 2026.
€ -73,320
▼ € 10,399 vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -32,149
▲ 76 % less loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 21,486
▲ 5% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -249,320.
People and assets in 2025
5.3
▼ 0.7 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 292,901
▼ 14% vs 2024
€ 55,300 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.
€ 66,711
▼ 21% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 196,175
▼ 13% vs 2024
€ 30,555 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 6 years.
€ 166,072
▲ 11% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 36,579
▼ 27% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 3,098 | € 32,094 | € 273,824 | € 332,931 | ▲ 22% |
| Profit after taxes | € -6,278 | € -76,651 | € -135,339 | € -32,149 | ▲ € 103,190 |
| Equity | € 14,195 | € 39,419 | € -62,921 | € -73,320 | ▼ € 10,399 |
| Total debts | € 60,217 | € 227,623 | € 473,775 | € 431,988 | ▼ 9% |
| Cash | € 8,104 | € 7,861 | € 20,481 | € 21,486 | ▲ 5% |
| Retained profit | € -5,180 | € -81,831 | € -217,171 | € -249,320 | ▼ € 32,149 |
| Bank debt | € 0 | € 73,563 | € 225,474 | € 196,175 | ▼ 13% |
| Balance sheet total | € 74,412 | € 267,042 | € 410,855 | € 358,668 | ▼ 13% |
| Employees (FTE) | - | 1.2 | 6 | 5.3 | ▼ 0.7 |
Key figures of DE SMEDERIJ, 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 DE SMEDERIJ?
What happened at DE SMEDERIJ in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Tweeperenboom CV stepped down as director. NBB
- CEMENT CV stepped down as director. NBB
- AREION BV stepped down as director. NBB
- JanaStessel BV stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 32,149. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Tweeperenboom CV became a director. NBB
- CEMENT CV became a director. NBB
- AREION BV became a director. NBB
In short
From € 6,278 loss in 2022 to € 32,149 loss in 2025.
On average € 62,800 of value added per employee in 2025.
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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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NMBS 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left ▼ 80%
bpost 18 May 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left from loss to profit
Management
The stake of TWEEPERENBOOM, JanaStessel, CEMENT, Bever en Adelaar comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
DE SMEDERIJThe shares are held by TWEEPERENBOOM (27.3%), JanaStessel (26.7%), CEMENT (10.1%) and Bever en Adelaar (10.1%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Nele Smets
since 2022 · until 2028
Director · represented by Annemie Colruyt
since 2022 · until 2028
Director · represented by Dimitri Staelens
since 2022 · until 2028
Director · represented by Jana Stessel
since 2022 · until 2028
Shareholders
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Warotstraat 4
3020 Herent
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Details
- Company number
- 0680.538.340
- VAT number
- BE 0680.538.340
- Registered office
- Warotstraat 4, 3020 Herent
- Names & denominations
- DE SMEDERIJ
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Cooperative company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 29 August 2017
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 1 Jan 2001
- Activities · NACE
Activiteiten van toeristische informatiediensten
Organisatie van congressen en beurzen