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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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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2024 and 2025.
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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 5 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Financials
Financial year 2025
UpCo from Oostende, company number BE0736724995, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -83,456 after tax. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -68,354 to € -83,456. 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 July 13, 2026.
€ 13.6 million
▼ 1% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -83,456
▼ 22 % more loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 49,612
▲ 77% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 9.1 million.
Debts at end 2025
€ 2.1 million
▼ 27% vs 2024
€ 757,143 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 3 years.
€ 2,804
▲ 4% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 78 days on average.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Revenue | € 1,530,000 | - | € 0 | - | |
| Gross margin | € 271,189 | € 488,028 | - | - | |
| Profit after taxes | € 40,279 | € 28,116 | € -68,354 | € -83,456 | ▼ € 15,103 |
| Equity | € 13,771,875 | € 13,799,992 | € 13,731,638 | € 13,648,182 | ▼ 1% |
| Total debts | € 10,158,604 | € 10,327,795 | € 10,231,230 | € 10,222,084 | |
| Cash | € 19,114 | € 167,311 | € 28,039 | € 49,612 | ▲ 77% |
| Retained profit | € 9,226,875 | € 9,254,992 | € 9,186,638 | € 9,103,182 | ▼ 1% |
| Bank debt | € 5,842,857 | € 3,585,714 | € 2,828,571 | € 2,071,429 | ▼ 27% |
| Balance sheet total | € 23,930,479 | € 24,127,786 | € 23,962,868 | € 23,870,265 |
Key figures of UpCo, 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 UpCo?
What happened at UpCo in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Depuydt Family BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Veerle Naessens stepped down as director. NBB
- Deroose Projects NV stepped down as director. NBB
- Essensys NV stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 83,456. Source: NBB ↗
- Depuydt Family BV became a director. NBB
- Essensys NV became a director. NBB
- Veerle Naessens became a director. NBB
In short
From € 40,279 profit in 2022 to € 83,456 loss in 2025.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 40,279 profit.
Pays suppliers within 78 days on average.
Management
The stake of Fresh Food Group, G. Depuydt comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
UpCoThe shares are held by Fresh Food Group (100%) and G. Depuydt (10%). It owns 100% of UpREstate and 100% of UpFresh itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Kurt Depuydt
Also active at: UpFresh, FRANKY, UpLog, UpREstate, Fresh Food Group, TRANSFRA
since 2023 · until 2029
Director · represented by Dirk Van Lerberghe
Also active at: UpFresh, FRANKY, UpLog, UpREstate, RoCa Invest I, RoCa Invest II, Fresh Food Group, TRANSFRA +5 more
since 2023 · until 2026
Veerle Naessens
Director
Also active at: Megaton, Groeninghe, UpFresh, Bekaert Depla, URTEX, FRANKY, GOSSEYE, WILLY NAESSENS INDUSTRIEBOUW +50 more
since 2023 · until 2029
Director · represented by Dirk Deroose
Also active at: Megaton, Groeninghe, UpFresh, Bekaert Depla, URTEX, FRANKY, GOSSEYE, WILLY NAESSENS INDUSTRIEBOUW +61 more
since 2023 · until 2029
Shareholders
100%
10%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Zandvoordestraat 370
8400 Oostende
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 5 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0736.724.995
- VAT number
- BE 0736.724.995
- Registered office
- Zandvoordestraat 370, 8400 Oostende
- Names & denominations
- UpCo
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 24 October 2019
- Peppol
- Not registered
- Activities · NACE
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