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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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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 28 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 10.9 to 8.2.
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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
De Leiding from Merelbeke-Melle, company number BE0694734685, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -588,652 after tax. For that financial year De Leiding recorded a gross margin of € 383,519 and equity of € 1.5 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 372,876 to € -588,652. The company made a loss. The company holds a healthy buffer. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on August 20, 2026.
€ 1.5 million
▼ 29% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -588,652
▼ still € 372,876 profit in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 39,690
▼ 97% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -2.3 million.
People and assets in 2025
8.2
▼ 2.1 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 652,491
▼ 10% vs 2024
€ 79,600 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.
€ 28,827
▼ 43% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 559,769
▼ 66% vs 2024
€ 22,419 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 1 years.
€ 108,504
▼ 36% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 60,990
▼ 17% 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 | € 25,671 | € -432,607 | € -132,169 | € 383,519 | ▲ € 515,689 |
| Profit after taxes | € -527,695 | € -1,535,323 | € 372,876 | € -588,652 | ▼ € 961,528 |
| Equity | € 1,714,707 | € 179,384 | € 2,052,260 | € 1,463,608 | ▼ 29% |
| Total debts | € 1,051,946 | € 2,867,830 | € 2,099,752 | € 1,140,451 | ▼ 46% |
| Cash | € 1,216,138 | € 518,757 | € 1,504,205 | € 39,690 | ▼ 97% |
| Land & buildings | € 1,845 | € 2,021 | € 1,137 | € 477 | ▼ 58% |
| Retained profit | € -527,695 | € -2,063,018 | € -1,690,142 | € -2,278,794 | ▼ € 588,652 |
| Bank debt | € 732,470 | € 2,154,359 | € 1,630,426 | € 559,769 | ▼ 66% |
| Balance sheet total | € 2,766,654 | € 3,047,214 | € 4,152,013 | € 2,604,059 | ▼ 37% |
| Employees (FTE) | 7.3 | 10.9 | 10.3 | 8.2 | ▼ 2.1 |
Key figures of De Leiding, 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 Leiding?
What happened at De Leiding in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Jeroen Vereecke stepped down as director. NBB
- Fried Roggen stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 588,652 (▼ € 961,528 vs 2024). filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Filip Pauwels became a director. NBB
- Dieter SUPLY stepped down as director. NBB
- Jeroen Vereecke became a director. NBB
- Fried Roggen became a director. NBB
- Dieter SUPLY became a director. NBB
In short
From € 527,695 loss in 2022 to € 588,652 loss in 2025.
Paid € 1,274 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 372,876 profit.
On average € 46,800 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%
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Management
The stake of Colruyt Group comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
De LeidingBehind De Leiding is Filip Pauwels. The shares are held by Colruyt Group (99.5%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Filip Pauwels
Director
since 2025
since 2023 · until 2029
Fried Roggen
Director
since 2023 · until 2029
Dieter SUPLY
Director
since 2022 · until 2025
Shareholders
99.5%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Ambachtsweg 36
9820 Merelbeke-Melle
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Details
- Company number
- 0694.734.685
- VAT number
- BE 0694.734.685
- Registered office
- Ambachtsweg 36, 9820 Merelbeke-Melle
- Names & denominations
- De Leiding
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 13 April 2018
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 1 Jan 2001
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