Warning lights
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 4 of the last 4 fiscal years.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 6.4 to 1.8.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Hilton Foods Belgium from Merelbeke-Melle, company number BE0737982136, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -456,377 after tax. For that financial year Hilton Foods Belgium recorded revenue of € 249,249 and equity of € -8.6 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 13.4 million to € -456,377. 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 June 29, 2026.
€ -8.6 million
▼ € 456,377 vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -456,377
▼ still € 13.4 million profit in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 516,139
▼ 91% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -8.6 million.
People and assets in 2025
1.8
▼ 1.3 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 183,636
▼ 39% vs 2024
€ 102,000 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.
€ 110
▼ 26% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 33.5 million
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 1.4 million
▼ 21% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 27,744
▼ 94% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 31,604,843 | € 9,116,079 | € 1,575,966 | € 249,249 | ▼ 84% |
| Gross margin | - | - | - | € 41,257 | |
| Profit after taxes | € -10,383,395 | € 1,660,440 | € 13,356,627 | € -456,377 | ▼ € 13.8 million |
| Equity | € -23,161,621 | € -21,501,181 | € -8,144,554 | € -8,600,931 | ▼ € 456,377 |
| Total debts | € 43,836,821 | € 35,180,936 | € 35,734,443 | € 34,897,132 | ▼ 2% |
| Cash | € 2,190,670 | € 579,471 | € 5,846,762 | € 516,139 | ▼ 91% |
| Retained profit | € -23,161,721 | € -21,501,281 | € -8,144,654 | € -8,601,031 | ▼ € 456,377 |
| Bank debt | € 20,000,000 | € 33,500,000 | € 33,500,000 | € 33,500,000 | |
| Balance sheet total | € 20,675,199 | € 13,679,755 | € 27,589,889 | € 26,296,200 | ▼ 5% |
| Employees (FTE) | 71.9 | 6.4 | 3.1 | 1.8 | ▼ 1.3 |
Key figures of Hilton Foods Belgium, fiscal years 2022 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2026) expected before 27 July 2027.
What happened to Hilton Foods Belgium?
What happened at Hilton Foods Belgium in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 456,377 (▼ € 13.8 million vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Merelbeke-Melle. KBO
- Wim Koole became a director. NBB
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 10.4 million loss in 2022 to € 456,377 loss in 2025.
Paid € 2.3 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 13.4 million profit.
On average € 22,900 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
Behind Hilton Foods Belgium is Wim Koole.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Wim Koole
Director
since 2019
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Guldensporenpark 120
9820 Merelbeke-Melle
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Details
- Company number
- 0737.982.136
- VAT number
- BE 0737.982.136
- Registered office
- Guldensporenpark 120, 9820 Merelbeke-Melle
- Names & denominations
- Hilton Foods Belgium
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 22 November 2019
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 27 Mar 2026
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Administratieve en ondersteunende activiteiten ten behoeve van kantoren
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