Financials
Financial year 2025
THE BELGIAN CHOCOLATE EXPERIENCE from Antwerpen, company number BE0830298818, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 2.1 million after tax. For that financial year THE BELGIAN CHOCOLATE EXPERIENCE recorded a gross margin of € 4.5 million and equity of € 2.4 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 1.6 million to € 2.1 million. 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 March 16, 2026.
€ 2.4 million
▲ 26% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 2.1 million
▲ 28% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 2.4 million
▲ 23% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 1.6 million paid out
76 % of the profit went to the shareholders, mostly to Koinon (50 % of the shares). That is where the money ends up.
People and assets in 2025
35.5
▲ 3.2 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.7 million
▲ 13% vs 2024
€ 48,400 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.
€ 89,047
▲ 144% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 1.5 million
▼ 14% vs 2024
€ 255,619 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 6 years.
€ 333,094
▲ 30% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 257,451
▲ 19% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 2,168,245 | € 3,251,706 | € 3,899,398 | € 4,490,884 | ▲ 15% |
| Profit after taxes | € 100,373 | € 1,122,609 | € 1,642,882 | € 2,094,688 | ▲ 28% |
| Equity | € -1,391,076 | € 231,533 | € 1,874,415 | € 2,369,104 | ▲ 26% |
| Total debts | € 5,975,057 | € 4,721,805 | € 2,480,098 | € 2,310,855 | ▼ 7% |
| Cash | € 1,401,330 | € 2,198,514 | € 1,984,180 | € 2,439,441 | ▲ 23% |
| Retained profit | € -5,316,076 | € -4,193,467 | € -2,550,585 | € 2,267,311 | ▲ € 4.8 million |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 0 | € 0 | € 1,599,999 | |
| Bank debt | € 5,153,000 | € 3,806,158 | € 1,718,856 | € 1,478,237 | ▼ 14% |
| Balance sheet total | € 4,583,981 | € 4,953,339 | € 4,354,513 | € 4,679,959 | ▲ 7% |
| Employees (FTE) | 20 | 28.9 | 32.3 | 35.5 | ▲ 3.2 |
Key figures of THE BELGIAN CHOCOLATE EXPERIENCE, fiscal years 2022 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2026) expected before 30 April 2027.
What happened to THE BELGIAN CHOCOLATE EXPERIENCE?
What happened at THE BELGIAN CHOCOLATE EXPERIENCE in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- LDN Business NV stepped down as director. NBB
- New establishment in Antwerpen. KBO
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 2.1 million (▲ 28% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- LDN Business NV became a director. NBB
- JEROEN JESPERS BV became a director. NBB
- Koinon NV became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Antwerpen. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 100,373 profit in 2022 to € 2.1 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 256,867 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 2.1 million profit.
On average € 126,500 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of Koinon, Participatiemaatschappij Vlaanderen, joehoe. comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
THE BELGIAN CHOCOLATE EXPERIENCEBehind THE BELGIAN CHOCOLATE EXPERIENCE are JEROEN JESPERS BV and Koinon NV. The shares are held by Koinon (50%), Participatiemaatschappij Vlaanderen (27.9%) and joehoe. (25%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Managing director · represented by Jeroen JESPERS
Also active at: joehoe., Theo Belgian Chocolate Gent
since 2024
since 2024
Director · represented by Louis De Nolf
Also active at: DUOMEDIA, Hostellerie Kemmelberg, Immo Kemmelberg
since 2025 · until 2027
Shareholders
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Koningin Astridplein 7
2018 Antwerpen
Grote Markt 29
2000 Antwerpen
Active since 5 August 2026
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 1 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0830.298.818
- VAT number
- BE 0830.298.818
- Registered office
- Koningin Astridplein 7, 2018 Antwerpen
- Names & denominations
- THE BELGIAN CHOCOLATE EXPERIENCE · TBCE
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 11 October 2010
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 27 Mar 2026
- Activities · NACE
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