Financials
Financial year 2026
SMARTMAT from Gent, company number BE0841142626, closed financial year 2026 with a result of € 6 million after tax. For that financial year SMARTMAT recorded revenue of € 85.8 million and equity of € 15 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 2 million to € 6 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 October 20, 2026.
€ 15 million
▲ 66% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 6 million
▲ 204% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 10.1 million
▲ 69% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Stays in the company
No dividend for 2026. Retained profit grew to € 9 million.
People and assets in 2026
53.1
▲ 11 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 4.5 million
▲ 76% vs 2024
€ 84,100 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.
€ 3.5 million
▲ 78% vs 2024
Of which on lease € 153,127.
Debts at end 2026
€ 364,551
▼ 43% vs 2024
€ 172,384 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 2 years.
€ 7.6 million
▲ 82% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 40 days on average.
€ 528,594
▲ 76% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2026 | Change 2024 → 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 29,662,773 | € 36,868,030 | € 50,382,434 | € 85,830,900 | ▲ 70% |
| Profit after taxes | € -1,540,721 | € 1,759,380 | € 1,961,063 | € 5,963,733 | ▲ 204% |
| Equity | € 5,336,738 | € 7,096,118 | € 9,019,349 | € 14,983,082 | ▲ 66% |
| Total debts | € 6,746,331 | € 6,615,015 | € 6,146,784 | € 11,227,483 | ▲ 83% |
| Cash | € 2,906,879 | € 3,877,273 | € 5,975,474 | € 10,101,696 | ▲ 69% |
| Retained profit | € -605,804 | € 1,153,577 | € 3,076,807 | € 9,040,540 | ▲ 194% |
| Bank debt | € 2,482,623 | € 1,282,196 | € 635,296 | € 364,551 | ▼ 43% |
| Balance sheet total | € 12,083,069 | € 13,711,133 | € 15,366,133 | € 26,210,565 | ▲ 71% |
| Employees (FTE) | 37.9 | 48.2 | 42.1 | 53.1 | ▲ 11 |
Key figures of SMARTMAT, fiscal years 2022 to 2026, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2027) expected before 31 October 2027.
What happened to SMARTMAT?
What happened at SMARTMAT in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Pieter-Jan Vandevelde stepped down as director. NBB
- Jessie Maras stepped down as director. NBB
- Tom De Prater stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2026: profit of € 6 million (▲ 204% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Jessie Maras became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Sint-Truiden. KBO
- New establishment in Antwerpen. KBO
- New establishment in Gent. KBO
In short
From € 1.5 million loss in 2022 to € 6 million profit in 2026.
Paid € 3.9 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2026, with € 6 million profit.
Pays suppliers within 40 days on average.
Management
The stake of Colruyt Group, KORYS INVESTMENTS, SLOWGOOSE comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
SMARTMATThe shares are held by Colruyt Food Retail (100%), Colruyt Group (41.4%), KORYS INVESTMENTS (41.4%) and SLOWGOOSE (10.9%). It owns 100% of Foodprepper itself.
Directors
According to the 2026 annual accounts
since 2022 · until 2028
since 2026 · until 2028
Tom De Prater
Director
since 2022 · until 2028
Shareholders
Participations
100%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Dok-Noord 35
9000 Gent
Regine Beerplein 1 box 207
2018 Antwerpen
Active since 6 December 2011
Kielsbroek 4C/2
2020 Antwerpen
Active since 1 August 2022
Beersbrugstraat 74
1602 Sint-Pieters-Leeuw
Active since 12 August 2024
Kielsbroek 29
2020 Antwerpen
Active since 1 October 2024
Ottergemsesteenweg-Zuid 717
9000 Gent
Active since 1 October 2024
Industrielaan 31
8930 Menen
Active since 1 October 2024
Montenakenweg 800
3800 Sint-Truiden
Active since 1 July 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
- 0841.142.626
- VAT number
- BE 0841.142.626
- Registered office
- Dok-Noord 35, 9000 Gent
- Names & denominations
- SMARTMAT
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 15 November 2011
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 27 Mar 2026
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