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Financials
Financial year 2025
METAL-GENT from Merelbeke-Melle, company number BE0808773924, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 3,641 after tax. For that financial year METAL-GENT recorded revenue of € 1.5 million and equity of € 631,323. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 2,297 to € 3,641. Profitable, and profit is growing. The buffer is growing. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on June 22, 2026.
€ 631,323
▲ 1% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 3,641
▲ 58% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 42,430
▲ 167% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Stays in the company
No dividend for 2025. Retained profit grew to € 31,323.
People and assets in 2025
7.7
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 432,949
▲ 11% vs 2024
€ 56,200 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.
€ 1,013
▼ 35% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
None
No bank loans on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 51,885
▼ 60% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 17 days on average.
€ 51,582
▲ 26% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 1,737,943 | € 1,516,926 | € 1,486,159 | € 1,542,425 | ▲ 4% |
| Profit after taxes | € 259,080 | € 90,371 | € 2,297 | € 3,641 | ▲ 58% |
| Equity | € 623,048 | € 627,567 | € 627,682 | € 631,323 | ▲ 1% |
| Total debts | € 371,591 | € 215,898 | € 176,487 | € 107,416 | ▼ 39% |
| Cash | € 448,663 | € 329,475 | € 15,915 | € 42,430 | ▲ 167% |
| Retained profit | € 23,048 | € 27,567 | € 27,682 | € 31,323 | ▲ 13% |
| Dividend | € 246,126 | € 85,852 | € 2,183 | € 0 | ▼ 100% |
| Balance sheet total | € 994,639 | € 843,465 | € 804,169 | € 738,740 | ▼ 8% |
| Employees (FTE) | 6.8 | 7.3 | 7.7 | 7.7 |
Key figures of METAL-GENT, 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 METAL-GENT?
What happened at METAL-GENT in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 3,641 (▲ 58% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- André Leclercq stepped down as director. NBB
- VMD Invest NV stepped down as director. NBB
- Thomas Vanzegbroek stepped down as director. NBB
- Van Meerbeeck Metalen NV stepped down as director. NBB
- Van Meerbeeck Metalen NV became a director. NBB
- André Leclercq became a director. NBB
- VMD Invest NV became a director. NBB
In short
From € 259,080 profit in 2022 to € 3,641 profit in 2025.
Paid € 139,556 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 259,080 profit.
Paid out € 334,161 in dividends to the owners in total.
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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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Management
The stake of VAN MEERBEECK METALEN - VAN MEERBEECK METAUX, VMD INVEST comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
METAL-GENTThe shares are held by VAN MEERBEECK METALEN - VAN MEERBEECK METAUX (99.5%) and VMD INVEST (1%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
André Leclercq
Director
since 2023 · until 2026
Director · represented by François Crop
Also active at: STAAL SERVICE VLAANDEREN, VMD Real Estate, METAFRANC, VM STEEL, VAN MEERBEECK METALEN - VAN MEERBEECK METAUX, LINEABERTOMANI
since 2023 · until 2026
since 2023 · until 2026
Director · represented by Dimitri Van Meerbeeck
Also active at: STAAL SERVICE VLAANDEREN
since 2024 · until 2026
Shareholders
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Vijverwegel 63
9090 Merelbeke-Melle
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Details
- Company number
- 0808.773.924
- VAT number
- BE 0808.773.924
- Registered office
- Vijverwegel 63, 9090 Merelbeke-Melle
- Names & denominations
- METAL-GENT
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 30 December 2008
- Peppol
- Not registered
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