Warning lights
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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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2024 and 2025.
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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 4 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 6.4 to 1.6.
Financials
Financial year 2025
HIGHLANDS FRUIT TRADE from Lievegem, company number BE0832136868, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -3.1 million after tax. For that financial year HIGHLANDS FRUIT TRADE recorded revenue of € 4.4 million and equity of € 4.7 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -8.2 million to € -3.1 million. 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 July 1, 2026.
€ 4.7 million
▼ 40% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -3.1 million
▲ 62 % less loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 367,564
▼ 45% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 4.5 million.
People and assets in 2025
1.6
▼ 3.8 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 117,167
▼ 76% vs 2024
€ 73,200 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.
€ 5.7 million
▼ 1% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
None
No bank loans on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 657,296
▲ 1% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 59 days on average.
€ 17,617
▼ 86% 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 | |
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| Revenue | - | € 8,682,557 | € 5,225,521 | € 4,359,121 | ▼ 17% |
| Gross margin | € 766,898 | - | - | - | |
| Profit after taxes | € 2,030,998 | € 7,052,647 | € -8,152,993 | € -3,111,441 | ▲ € 5 million |
| Equity | € 8,898,823 | € 15,951,471 | € 7,798,478 | € 4,687,037 | ▼ 40% |
| Total debts | € 51,517,806 | € 45,408,668 | € 44,926,271 | € 39,539,571 | ▼ 12% |
| Cash | € 227,831 | € 761,740 | € 665,790 | € 367,564 | ▼ 45% |
| Land & buildings | - | - | € 8,116,664 | € 6,721,655 | ▼ 17% |
| Retained profit | € 8,754,631 | € 15,807,279 | € 7,654,286 | € 4,542,845 | ▼ 41% |
| Balance sheet total | € 60,416,629 | € 61,360,139 | € 52,724,749 | € 44,226,608 | ▼ 16% |
| Employees (FTE) | 5.7 | 6.4 | 5.4 | 1.6 | ▼ 3.8 |
Key figures of HIGHLANDS FRUIT TRADE, 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 HIGHLANDS FRUIT TRADE?
What happened at HIGHLANDS FRUIT TRADE in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 3.1 million. Source: NBB ↗
- BIMED BV stepped down as director. NBB
- BIMED BV became a director. NBB
- Martine Verbiest became a director. NBB
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
- New establishment in Lievegem. KBO
In short
From € 2 million profit in 2022 to € 3.1 million loss in 2025.
Paid € 41,795 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 7.1 million profit.
On average € 134,500 of value added per employee in 2022.
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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%
bpost 18 May 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left from loss to profit
Management
Behind HIGHLANDS FRUIT TRADE is Martine Verbiest. It owns 99.8% of Omnipack-Reyniers and 98.1% of Fruttato itself.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Kerkstraat 2
9950 Lievegem
Who else lives here?
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Details
- Company number
- 0832.136.868
- VAT number
- BE 0832.136.868
- Registered office
- Kerkstraat 2, 9950 Lievegem
- Names & denominations
- HIGHLANDS FRUIT TRADE
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 22 December 2010
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- Active · Active since 2 Dec 2025
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