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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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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 54 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Nic Maes from Merelbeke-Melle, company number BE0831686116, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 45,609 after tax. For that financial year Nic Maes recorded a gross margin of € 71,189 and equity of € 926,854. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 44,247 to € 45,609. 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 April 28, 2026.
€ 926,854
▲ 5% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 45,609
▲ 3% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 10,828
▲ € 10,302 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 € 308,254.
People and assets in 2025
0
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
Debts at end 2025
€ 304,760
▼ 11% vs 2024
€ 70,833 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 4 years.
€ 34,318
▲ 36% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 16,964
▼ 4% vs 2024
Corporate tax and VAT still to pay. No wage debt: nothing outstanding to staff or social security.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 89,379 | € 67,708 | € 71,414 | € 71,189 | |
| Profit after taxes | € 56,298 | € 45,033 | € 44,247 | € 45,609 | ▲ 3% |
| Equity | € 811,179 | € 836,998 | € 881,245 | € 926,854 | ▲ 5% |
| Total debts | € 510,523 | € 488,664 | € 463,633 | € 466,289 | ▲ 1% |
| Cash | € 55 | € 56 | € 526 | € 10,828 | ▲ € 10,302 |
| Retained profit | € 192,579 | € 218,398 | € 262,645 | € 308,254 | ▲ 17% |
| Dividend | € 17,190 | € 19,213 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Bank debt | € 436,340 | € 401,276 | € 341,898 | € 304,760 | ▼ 11% |
| Balance sheet total | € 1,321,702 | € 1,325,662 | € 1,344,878 | € 1,393,143 | ▲ 4% |
Key figures of Nic Maes, 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 Nic Maes?
What happened at Nic Maes in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 45,609 (▲ 3% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- NIC MAES became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Merelbeke-Melle. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 56,298 profit in 2022 to € 45,609 profit in 2025.
Paid € 68,834 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 56,298 profit.
Paid out € 36,403 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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NMBS 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left ▼ 80%
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Management
Behind Nic Maes is NIC MAES. It owns 100% of Best Trading Belgium itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
NIC MAES
Director
since 2019
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Dotterbloemweg 1
9820 Merelbeke-Melle
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0831.686.116
- VAT number
- BE 0831.686.116
- Registered office
- Dotterbloemweg 1, 9820 Merelbeke-Melle
- Names & denominations
- Nic Maes
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 7 December 2010
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