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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 51 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Swiss Distribution from Gembloux, company number BE0737725580, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 195,830 after tax. For that financial year Swiss Distribution recorded a gross margin of € 1.5 million and equity of € 144,810. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 245,546 to € 195,830. The company is profitable. The buffer is growing. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on April 28, 2026.
€ 144,810
▲ 4% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 195,830
▼ 20% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 537,820
▲ 42% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 190,000 paid out
97 % of the profit went to the shareholders, the rest stayed in the company.
People and assets in 2025
27.1
▲ 1.8 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1 million
▲ 10% vs 2024
€ 38,100 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.
€ 68,244
▲ 97% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 400,791
▼ 27% vs 2024
€ 147,858 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 3 years.
€ 939,860
▲ 63% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 210,741
▲ 50% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 1,156,055 | € 1,361,676 | € 1,437,282 | € 1,496,681 | ▲ 4% |
| Profit after taxes | € 174,117 | € 299,313 | € 245,546 | € 195,830 | ▼ 20% |
| Equity | € 220,121 | € 125,434 | € 138,980 | € 144,810 | ▲ 4% |
| Total debts | € 1,586,759 | € 1,911,975 | € 1,525,356 | € 1,778,568 | ▲ 17% |
| Cash | € 431,761 | € 597,660 | € 379,103 | € 537,820 | ▲ 42% |
| Retained profit | € 140,121 | € 45,434 | € 58,980 | € 64,810 | ▲ 10% |
| Dividend | € 170,000 | € 394,000 | € 232,000 | € 190,000 | ▼ 18% |
| Bank debt | € 687,878 | € 660,583 | € 550,162 | € 400,791 | ▼ 27% |
| Balance sheet total | € 1,806,880 | € 2,037,409 | € 1,664,336 | € 1,923,378 | ▲ 16% |
| Employees (FTE) | 28.3 | 24.6 | 25.3 | 27.1 | ▲ 1.8 |
Key figures of Swiss Distribution, fiscal years 2022 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2026) expected before 30 April 2027.
What happened to Swiss Distribution?
What happened at Swiss Distribution in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 195,830 (▼ 20% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Gembloux. KBO
- Helvetica SRL became a director. NBB
- François Lesuisse became a director. NBB
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 174,117 profit in 2022 to € 195,830 profit in 2025.
Paid € 18,183 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 299,313 profit.
On average € 55,200 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of Helvetica comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
Swiss DistributionBehind Swiss Distribution are Helvetica SRL and François Lesuisse. The shares are held by Helvetica (10%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Managing director · represented by François Lesuisse
since 2019
since 2019
Shareholders
10%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Chaussée de Charleroi 142
5030 Gembloux
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0737.725.580
- VAT number
- BE 0737.725.580
- Registered office
- Chaussée de Charleroi 142, 5030 Gembloux
- Names & denominations
- Swiss Distribution
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 15 November 2019
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