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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 63 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
BEST TRADING BELGIUM from Deerlijk, company number BE0848077334, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 69,718 after tax. For that financial year BEST TRADING BELGIUM recorded a gross margin of € 1.1 million and equity of € 867,690. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -83,127 to € 69,718. Profitable, and profit is growing. The buffer is growing. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on April 28, 2026.
€ 867,690
▲ 9% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 69,718
▲ still € 83,127 loss in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 49,020
▲ 28% 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 € 635,290.
People and assets in 2025
9.1
▼ 0.9 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 683,441
▼ 10% vs 2024
€ 75,100 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.
€ 53,369
▼ 21% vs 2024
Of which on lease € 12,978.
Debts at end 2025
€ 2.2 million
▼ 13% vs 2024
€ 129,488 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 10 years.
€ 1.4 million
▼ 14% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 72,665
▼ 40% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 1,047,355 | € 1,121,679 | € 965,692 | € 1,061,224 | ▲ 10% |
| Profit after taxes | € 153,096 | € 91,011 | € -83,127 | € 69,718 | ▲ € 152,845 |
| Equity | € 790,089 | € 881,100 | € 797,973 | € 867,690 | ▲ 9% |
| Total debts | € 3,014,787 | € 3,489,012 | € 4,338,565 | € 3,658,685 | ▼ 16% |
| Cash | € 86,660 | € 65,450 | € 38,274 | € 49,020 | ▲ 28% |
| Retained profit | € 557,689 | € 648,700 | € 565,573 | € 635,290 | ▲ 12% |
| Bank debt | € 1,877,990 | € 2,229,395 | € 2,530,035 | € 2,198,131 | ▼ 13% |
| Balance sheet total | € 3,804,877 | € 4,370,112 | € 5,136,538 | € 4,526,376 | ▼ 12% |
| Employees (FTE) | 9.6 | 9.7 | 10 | 9.1 | ▼ 0.9 |
Key figures of BEST TRADING BELGIUM, 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 BEST TRADING BELGIUM?
What happened at BEST TRADING BELGIUM in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 69,718. Source: NBB ↗
- NIC MAES BV became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Deerlijk. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 153,096 profit in 2022 to € 69,718 profit in 2025.
Paid € 124,824 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 153,096 profit.
On average € 116,600 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%
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Management
The stake of Nic Maes comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
BEST TRADING BELGIUMBehind BEST TRADING BELGIUM is NIC MAES BV. The shares are held by Nic Maes (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by MAES NIC
since 2019
Shareholders
100%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Kleine Tapuitstraat 14-16
8540 Deerlijk
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Website
Technologies
Hosting & Email
Email provider
Microsoft 365
Hosting
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Website info
Features
Security
Details
- Company number
- 0848.077.334
- VAT number
- BE 0848.077.334
- Registered office
- Kleine Tapuitstraat 14-16, 8540 Deerlijk
- Names & denominations
- BEST TRADING BELGIUM
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 13 August 2012
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 21 May 2025
- Contact
- besttrading.be
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