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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 62 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Figures corrected NBB
Corrected annual account filed for 2024.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Knapen from Bekkevoort, company number BE0834625909, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 377,562 after tax. For that financial year Knapen recorded a gross margin of € 2.4 million and equity of € 4.7 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 746,476 to € 377,562. 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 1, 2026.
€ 4.7 million
▲ 9% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 377,562
▼ 49% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 206,569
▼ 59% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 833 paid out
0 % of the profit went to the shareholders, the rest stayed in the company.
People and assets in 2025
23.7
▲ 2.5 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.6 million
▲ 24% vs 2024
€ 68,400 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.
€ 223,956
▼ 3% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 1.1 million
▲ € 869,810 vs 2024
€ 55,592 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 3 years.
€ 140,083
▲ 99% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 307,351
▼ 27% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 2,044,146 | € 2,366,200 | € 2,580,246 | € 2,411,733 | ▼ 7% |
| Profit after taxes | € 623,284 | € 717,918 | € 746,476 | € 377,562 | ▼ 49% |
| Equity | € 2,816,598 | € 3,533,683 | € 4,279,299 | € 4,656,028 | ▲ 9% |
| Total debts | € 1,274,826 | € 1,165,666 | € 1,120,950 | € 2,183,894 | ▲ 95% |
| Cash | € 305,182 | € 424,170 | € 497,932 | € 206,569 | ▼ 59% |
| Land & buildings | € 7,106 | € 4,829 | € 2,552 | € 26,940 | ▲ € 24,389 |
| Retained profit | € 2,797,998 | € 3,515,083 | € 4,260,699 | € 4,637,428 | ▲ 9% |
| Dividend | € 800 | € 833 | € 859 | € 833 | ▼ 3% |
| Bank debt | € 230,234 | € 189,217 | € 214,179 | € 1,083,988 | ▲ € 869,810 |
| Balance sheet total | € 4,091,424 | € 4,699,349 | € 5,400,249 | € 6,839,922 | ▲ 27% |
| Employees (FTE) | 17.7 | 17.8 | 21.2 | 23.7 | ▲ 2.5 |
Key figures of Knapen, 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 Knapen?
What happened at Knapen in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 377,562 (▼ 49% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Diest. KBO
- Marc Dekeyser became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Kampenhout. KBO
- New establishment in Bekkevoort. KBO
- Sam Knapen became a director. NBB
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 623,284 profit in 2022 to € 377,562 profit in 2025.
Paid € 1.1 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 746,476 profit.
On average € 101,800 of value added per employee in 2025.
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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 Knapen are Sam Knapen and Marc Dekeyser. It owns 10% of samco invest itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Sam Knapen
Director
since 2011
Marc Dekeyser
Persoon belast met dagelijks bestuur
since 2023
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Langerode 1
3460 Bekkevoort
Industriestraat 25
1910 Kampenhout
Active since 15 August 2020
Leuvensesteenweg 184 box D
3290 Diest
Active since 1 October 2025
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
- 0834.625.909
- VAT number
- BE 0834.625.909
- Registered office
- Langerode 1, 3460 Bekkevoort
- Names & denominations
- Knapen
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 18 March 2011
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 1 Jan 2001
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