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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 50 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
De Bakploate from Knokke-Heist, company number BE0741638145, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -28,695 after tax. For that financial year De Bakploate recorded a gross margin of € 360,482 and equity of € 70,912. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 1,132 to € -28,695. The company made a loss. The company holds a healthy buffer. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on July 30, 2026.
€ 70,912
▼ 29% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -28,695
▼ still € 1,132 profit in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 81,356
▼ 2% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 60,912.
People and assets in 2025
5.4
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 237,050
▲ 14% vs 2024
€ 43,900 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.
€ 129,148
▲ € 99,148 vs 2024
Of which on lease € 106,694.
Debts at end 2025
€ 549,027
▲ 89% vs 2024
€ 94,420 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 5 years.
€ 171,705
▼ 44% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 82,608
▼ 31% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 209,381 | € 291,403 | € 308,299 | € 360,482 | ▲ 17% |
| Profit after taxes | € 22,147 | € 37,357 | € 1,132 | € -28,695 | ▼ € 29,828 |
| Equity | € 61,118 | € 98,475 | € 99,608 | € 70,912 | ▼ 29% |
| Total debts | € 432,201 | € 440,839 | € 735,412 | € 810,303 | ▲ 10% |
| Cash | € 46,693 | € 104,947 | € 82,675 | € 81,356 | ▼ 2% |
| Retained profit | € 51,118 | € 88,475 | € 89,608 | € 60,912 | ▼ 32% |
| Bank debt | € 271,877 | € 226,828 | € 289,911 | € 549,027 | ▲ 89% |
| Balance sheet total | € 493,319 | € 539,314 | € 835,019 | € 881,215 | ▲ 6% |
| Employees (FTE) | - | - | - | 5.4 |
Key figures of De Bakploate, 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 Bakploate?
What happened at De Bakploate in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 28,695 (▼ € 29,828 vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Incorporation, published in the Gazette. Source: Staatsblad ↗
- New establishment in Knokke-Heist. KBO
- New establishment in Knokke-Heist. KBO
In short
From € 22,147 profit in 2022 to € 28,695 loss in 2025.
Paid € 10,256 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 37,357 profit.
On average € 66,800 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
Behind De Bakploate are James Swevers and Annelies Dierick.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
James Swevers
Director
Annelies Dierick
Director
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Keith Haringplein 3
8300 Knokke-Heist
Natiënlaan 21 box 1
8300 Knokke-Heist
Active since 16 January 2020
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Shareholders according to the Official Gazette deeds
Who contributed at incorporation and at capital increases, with the deed as source. Later share transfers are not published in the Gazette.
Incorporation
Source: Deed ↗- SWEVERS James(oprichter) 50%
- DIERICK Annelies(oprichter) 50%
Details
- Company number
- 0741.638.145
- VAT number
- BE 0741.638.145
- Registered office
- Keith Haringplein 3, 8300 Knokke-Heist
- Names & denominations
- De Bakploate
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 16 January 2020
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- Active · Active since 15 Jun 2026
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