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Financials
Financial year 2025
Bestseller Wholesale Belgium from Antwerpen, company number BE0860028526, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 4 million after tax. For that financial year Bestseller Wholesale Belgium recorded revenue of € 107.9 million and equity of € 5.6 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 4.1 million to € 4 million. The company is profitable. The buffer shrank hard: equity is 81 % below last year. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on December 23, 2025.
€ 5.6 million
▼ 81% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 4 million
▼ 2% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 34.2 million
▲ 15% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 28.5 million paid out
More than the year’s profit went to the shareholders; reserves fell.
People and assets in 2025
68.3
▲ 0.9 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 5.4 million
▲ 2% vs 2024
€ 79,600 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.
€ 807,801
▲ 11% 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.
€ 11.9 million
▲ 8% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 44 days on average.
€ 3.5 million
▲ 21% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 100,856,948 | € 108,394,545 | € 104,379,396 | € 107,858,380 | ▲ 3% |
| Profit after taxes | € 2,922,135 | € 4,523,721 | € 4,118,207 | € 4,025,969 | ▼ 2% |
| Equity | € 21,449,070 | € 25,972,791 | € 30,090,998 | € 5,616,967 | ▼ 81% |
| Total debts | € 17,741,622 | € 15,995,562 | € 14,310,321 | € 44,496,863 | ▲ 211% |
| Cash | € 20,007,685 | € 19,542,239 | € 29,869,778 | € 34,233,356 | ▲ 15% |
| Retained profit | € 19,949,070 | € 24,472,791 | € 28,590,998 | € 4,116,967 | ▼ 86% |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 0 | € 0 | € 28,500,000 | |
| Balance sheet total | € 39,190,692 | € 41,968,353 | € 44,401,319 | € 50,113,830 | ▲ 13% |
| Employees (FTE) | 61.9 | 63.2 | 67.4 | 68.3 | ▲ 0.9 |
Key figures of Bestseller Wholesale 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 3 March 2027.
What happened to Bestseller Wholesale Belgium?
What happened at Bestseller Wholesale 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 € 4 million (▼ 2% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Lise Kaae became a director. NBB
- Thomas Borglum Jensen stepped down as director. NBB
- Povlsen Anders Holch became a director. NBB
- Thomas Borglum Jensen became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Antwerpen. KBO
- New establishment in Antwerpen. KBO
- New establishment in Antwerpen. KBO
In short
From € 2.9 million profit in 2022 to € 4 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 5.7 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 4.5 million profit.
Paid out € 28.5 million 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%
bpost 18 May 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left from loss to profit
Management
Behind Bestseller Wholesale Belgium are Povlsen Anders Holch and Lise Kaae. The shares are held by Bestseller A/S (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Povlsen Anders Holch
Director
since 2021
since 2025
Thomas Borglum Jensen
Director
Also active at: BESTSELLER STORES BELGIUM, VILA BELGIUM, BELGIUM PROPERTY
since 2021 · until 2025
Shareholders
Bestseller A/S
100%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Keizerstraat 9
2000 Antwerpen
Gramayestraat 4
2000 Antwerpen
Active since 2 January 2013
Oostkaai 25/3
2170 Antwerpen
Active since 1 December 2007
Kipdorp 23
2000 Antwerpen
Active since 8 August 2019
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 6 companies are registered at this address.
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€ 53.4 million revenue · 2025
VILA BELGIUM same network
€ 16.7 million revenue · 2025
Number Nine
€ 389,679 gross margin · 2025
BELGIUM PROPERTY same network
€ 644,149 gross margin · 2025
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What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0860.028.526
- VAT number
- BE 0860.028.526
- Registered office
- Keizerstraat 9, 2000 Antwerpen
- Names & denominations
- Bestseller Wholesale Belgium
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 11 August 2003
- Peppol
- Not registered
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