Financials
Financial year 2025
BACKLITE from Merelbeke-Melle, company number BE0831648009, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 56,919 after tax. For that financial year BACKLITE recorded a gross margin of € 102,145 and equity of € 391,629. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 68,547 to € 56,919. 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 July 13, 2026.
€ 391,629
▲ 7% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 56,919
▼ 17% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 148,082
▲ 26% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 30,275 paid out
53 % of the profit went to the shareholders, the rest stayed in the company.
People and assets in 2025
€ 6,213
▲ 79% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 61,094
▼ 19% vs 2024
€ 6,604 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 9 years.
€ 3,618
▼ 15% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 19,174
▼ 19% vs 2024
Corporate tax and VAT still to pay. No wage debt: nothing outstanding to staff or social security.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 148,532 | € 120,118 | € 119,074 | € 102,145 | ▼ 14% |
| Profit after taxes | € 85,562 | € 65,769 | € 68,547 | € 56,919 | ▼ 17% |
| Equity | € 291,219 | € 326,713 | € 364,985 | € 391,629 | ▲ 7% |
| Total debts | € 215,579 | € 168,193 | € 144,788 | € 126,649 | ▼ 13% |
| Cash | € 98,030 | € 28,431 | € 117,803 | € 148,082 | ▲ 26% |
| Land & buildings | € 333,538 | € 325,194 | € 316,850 | € 308,506 | ▼ 3% |
| Retained profit | € 278,819 | € 314,313 | € 352,585 | € 379,229 | ▲ 8% |
| Dividend | € 30,275 | € 30,275 | € 30,275 | € 30,275 | |
| Bank debt | € 102,976 | € 89,326 | € 75,371 | € 61,094 | ▼ 19% |
| Balance sheet total | € 506,798 | € 494,906 | € 509,773 | € 518,278 | ▲ 2% |
Key figures of BACKLITE, 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 BACKLITE?
What happened at BACKLITE in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 56,919 (▼ 17% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Incorporation, published in the Gazette. Source: Staatsblad ↗
- New establishment in Merelbeke-Melle. KBO
In short
From € 85,562 profit in 2022 to € 56,919 profit in 2025.
Paid € 63,384 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 85,562 profit.
Paid out € 121,100 in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
Behind BACKLITE is Bert Degraeve.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Bert Degraeve
Director
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Kapellendries 48
9090 Merelbeke-Melle
Heuvelweg 9
9090 Merelbeke-Melle
Active since 2 December 2010
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 ↗- DEGRAEVE Bert Jef Robert(vennoot) 100%
Details
- Company number
- 0831.648.009
- VAT number
- BE 0831.648.009
- Registered office
- Kapellendries 48, 9090 Merelbeke-Melle
- Names & denominations
- BACKLITE
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 6 December 2010
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