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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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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 13.7 to 11.1.
Financials
Financial year 2025
BEN from Antwerpen, company number BE0812010952, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 27,798 after tax. For that financial year BEN recorded a gross margin of € 831,080 and equity of € 1.2 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 83,236 to € 27,798. The company is profitable. 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 September 29, 2025.
€ 1.2 million
▲ 2% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 27,798
▼ 67% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 192,384
▼ 46% 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 € -899,583.
People and assets in 2025
11.1
▼ 0.7 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 706,810
▼ 10% vs 2024
€ 63,700 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.
Debts at end 2025
€ 790,006
▼ 2% vs 2024
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 417,418
▲ 12% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 84,332
▲ 6% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 907,679 | € 1,233,956 | € 984,456 | € 831,080 | ▼ 16% |
| Profit after taxes | € 189,387 | € 237,527 | € 83,236 | € 27,798 | ▼ 67% |
| Equity | € 831,856 | € 1,069,383 | € 1,152,619 | € 1,180,417 | ▲ 2% |
| Total debts | € 857,352 | € 956,353 | € 1,330,955 | € 1,353,039 | ▲ 2% |
| Cash | € 115,726 | € 92,490 | € 356,394 | € 192,384 | ▼ 46% |
| Retained profit | € -1,248,144 | € -1,010,617 | € -927,381 | € -899,583 | ▲ € 27,798 |
| Bank debt | € 492,328 | € 350,000 | € 806,297 | € 790,006 | ▼ 2% |
| Balance sheet total | € 1,689,208 | € 2,025,736 | € 2,483,574 | € 2,533,456 | ▲ 2% |
| Employees (FTE) | 10.8 | 13.7 | 11.8 | 11.1 | ▼ 0.7 |
Key figures of BEN, 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 October 2026.
What happened to BEN?
What happened at BEN in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- CLCC NV stepped down as director. NBB
- Christophe Mollet stepped down as director. NBB
- Christian Wijnants stepped down as director. NBB
- Christian Cigrang stepped down as director. NBB
- Camille Cigrang stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 27,798 (▼ 67% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- CLCC NV became a director. NBB
- Christophe Mollet became a director. NBB
In short
From € 189,387 profit in 2022 to € 27,798 profit in 2025.
Paid € 1,180 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 237,527 profit.
On average € 74,900 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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Management
The stake of CLCC, Ode comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
BENThe shares are held by CLCC (74%) and Ode (26%). It owns 75.1% of Ben Germany Retail itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Bestuurder B · represented by Camille Cirgrang
since 2025 · until 2031
Christophe Mollet
Bestuurder A
since 2025 · until 2031
Camille Cigrang
Director
since 2024 · until 2029
since 2025 · until 2031
Christian Cigrang
Bestuurder B
Also active at: LIVING IN FUNKY ENVIRONMENTS, Companions, BRAINM Clinics
since 2025 · until 2031
Participations
Ben Germany Retail
75.1%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Italiëlei 215 box 21
2000 Antwerpen
Steenhouwersvest 36
2000 Antwerpen
Active since 7 September 2015
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
- 0812.010.952
- VAT number
- BE 0812.010.952
- Registered office
- Italiëlei 215 bus 21, 2000 Antwerpen
- Names & denominations
- BEN
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 2 June 2009
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 22 Dec 2025
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