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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2025 and 2026.
Financials
Financial year 2026
DARCIS CHOCOLAT ET PATISSERIE from Verviers, company number BE0824577402, closed financial year 2026 with a result of € -117,309 after tax. For that financial year DARCIS CHOCOLAT ET PATISSERIE recorded a gross margin of € 2.4 million and equity of € 536,432. Compared with financial year 2025, the result moved from € -158,823 to € -117,309. 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 November 3, 2026.
€ 536,432
▼ 20% vs 2025
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today. At incorporation the founders contributed € 45,000 in kind: shares or other assets, valued in the deed.
€ -117,309
▲ 26 % less loss than in 2025
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 167,693
▲ 152% vs 2025
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 84,164.
People and assets in 2026
44.5
▲ 2 vs 2025
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.9 million
▲ 8% vs 2025
€ 42,100 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.
€ 1.3 million
▼ 6% vs 2025
Of which on lease € 1.2 million.
Debts at end 2026
€ 2.8 million
▼ 4% vs 2025
€ 343,821 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 7 years.
€ 776,905
▼ 5% vs 2025
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 280,158
▲ 71% vs 2025
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | Change 2025 → 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 1,713,694 | € 1,844,214 | € 1,965,991 | € 2,411,350 | ▲ 23% |
| Profit after taxes | € 101,611 | € 36,834 | € -158,823 | € -117,309 | ▲ € 41,514 |
| Equity | € 822,864 | € 843,420 | € 669,339 | € 536,432 | ▼ 20% |
| Total debts | € 3,533,193 | € 3,552,475 | € 3,909,670 | € 3,942,574 | ▲ 1% |
| Cash | € 68,918 | € 72,442 | € 66,464 | € 167,693 | ▲ 152% |
| Retained profit | € 323,461 | € 360,296 | € 201,472 | € 84,164 | ▼ 58% |
| Bank debt | € 2,993,186 | € 2,825,716 | € 2,853,598 | € 2,753,344 | ▼ 4% |
| Balance sheet total | € 4,356,057 | € 4,395,894 | € 4,579,008 | € 4,479,006 | ▼ 2% |
| Employees (FTE) | 36.4 | 39.7 | 42.5 | 44.5 | ▲ 2 |
By gross margin, DARCIS CHOCOLAT ET PATISSERIE ranks 1st of 30 companies with main activity “Vervaardiging van cacao, chocolade en suikerwerk” in the province of Liège that publish figures (fiscal year 2026).
Key figures of DARCIS CHOCOLAT ET PATISSERIE, fiscal years 2023 to 2026, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2027) expected before 31 October 2027.
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What happened to DARCIS CHOCOLAT ET PATISSERIE?
What happened at DARCIS CHOCOLAT ET PATISSERIE in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2026: loss of € 117,309. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Verviers. KBO
- Incorporation, published in the Gazette. Source: Staatsblad ↗
In short
From € 101,611 profit in 2023 to € 117,309 loss in 2026.
Paid € 3,004 in corporate taxes since 2023.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 101,611 profit.
On average € 54,200 of value added per employee in 2026.
Management
The stake of NOSHAQ comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
DARCIS CHOCOLAT ET PATISSERIEBehind DARCIS CHOCOLAT ET PATISSERIE are Noshaq Partners SRL, Carine Lempereur and Jean-Philippe Darcis. The shares are held by NOSHAQ (18.2%).
Directors
According to the 2026 annual accounts
Director · represented by Géraldine Hotterbeex
Also active at: CAUTION MUTUELLE DES METIERS ET NEGOCES, Fonderies J. Marichal Ketin et Cie, DARDENNE, SOGECOM, VITAVERDE.BIO, HAEMERS Technologies, SPACEBEL, NOSHAQ VENTURE +168 more
Carine Lempereur
Managing director
Also active at: DARCIS BRUXELLES, JCA IMMO, JPD BOULANGERIE, DARCIS LIEGE
Shareholders
18.2%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Esplanade de la Grâce 1
4800 Verviers
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 3 companies are registered at this address.
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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 ↗- DARCIS Jean-Philippe Jacques Marcel(oprichter) 50%
- LEMPEREUR Carine Betty Alberte(oprichter) 50%
Details
- Company number
- 0824.577.402
- VAT number
- BE 0824.577.402
- Registered office
- Esplanade de la Grâce 1, 4800 Verviers
- Names & denominations
- DARCIS CHOCOLAT ET PATISSERIE
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 1 April 2010
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 6 Jan 2026
- Activities · NACE
Vervaardiging van cacao, chocolade en suikerwerk
Ambachtelijke vervaardiging van brood en van vers banketbakkerswerk
Activiteiten van eetgelegenheden met volledige bediening
Detailhandel in brood en banketbakkerswerk (koude bakkers)
Eetgelegenheden met volledige bediening