Financials
Financial year 2025
LOOTENS BELGIE from Gent, company number BE0866506146, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 1.9 million after tax. For that financial year LOOTENS BELGIE recorded a gross margin of € 9.2 million and equity of € 7.1 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 2.2 million to € 1.9 million. 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 January 5, 2026.
€ 7.1 million
▲ 8% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 1.9 million
▼ 16% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 2.1 million
▲ 160% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 1.3 million paid out
70 % of the profit went to the shareholders, mostly to BEERMAN (90 % of the shares). That is where the money ends up.
People and assets in 2025
74.7
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 6.1 million
▲ 2% vs 2024
€ 81,200 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.
€ 474,837
▼ 31% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 3.1 million
▼ 31% vs 2024
€ 674,537 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 5 years.
€ 1.7 million
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 1.2 million
▼ 13% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 256,613 | € 164,353 | € 9,685,598 | € 9,235,323 | ▼ 5% |
| Profit after taxes | € 87,908 | € 9,514 | € 2,214,049 | € 1,857,691 | ▼ 16% |
| Equity | € 365,526 | € 375,041 | € 6,584,893 | € 7,142,583 | ▲ 8% |
| Total debts | € 322,743 | € 90,126 | € 8,428,218 | € 7,745,031 | ▼ 8% |
| Cash | € 479,783 | € 289,596 | € 794,231 | € 2,063,085 | ▲ 160% |
| Retained profit | € 335,526 | € 345,041 | € 6,375,913 | € 6,933,603 | ▲ 9% |
| Dividend | € 240,000 | € 0 | € 685,000 | € 1,300,000 | ▲ 90% |
| Bank debt | € 0 | € 0 | € 4,470,000 | € 3,063,864 | ▼ 31% |
| Balance sheet total | € 688,270 | € 465,167 | € 15,043,639 | € 14,889,565 | ▼ 1% |
| Employees (FTE) | 3.9 | 3.1 | - | 74.7 |
By gross margin, LOOTENS BELGIE ranks 1st of 60 companies with main activity “Coating van metalen” in East Flanders that publish figures (fiscal year 2025).
Key figures of LOOTENS BELGIE, fiscal years 2022 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2026) expected before 30 April 2027.
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What happened to LOOTENS BELGIE?
What happened at LOOTENS BELGIE in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 1.9 million (▼ 16% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Nazareth-De Pinte. KBO
- Katrine Boullart became a director. NBB
- Buyle BV became a director. NBB
- Piet Halsberghe became a director. NBB
- Beerman BV became a director. NBB
- Johannes Lootens became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Turnhout. KBO
In short
From € 87,908 profit in 2022 to € 1.9 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 1.4 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 2.2 million profit.
On average € 123,600 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of BEERMAN, Buyle comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
LOOTENS BELGIEBehind LOOTENS BELGIE are Katrine Boullart, Buyle BV, Piet Halsberghe, Beerman BV and Johannes Lootens. The shares are held by BEERMAN (90%) and Buyle (10%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
since 2024
since 2024
since 2024
Director · represented by Jan LOOTENS
Also active at: LOOTENS EVOLIS, Lootens Turnhout, FIRE!doors & projects, Lootens Immo
since 2024
Johannes Lootens
Director
since 2024
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Moortelputstraat 44
9031 Gent
Vaart Linkeroever 54
9800 Deinze
Active since 20 August 2004
Visbeekstraat 26
2300 Turnhout
Active since 1 October 2009
Nijverheidstraat 6
9810 Nazareth-De Pinte
Active since 1 April 2024
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 5 companies are registered at this address.
All companies at this address →What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
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Details
- Company number
- 0866.506.146
- VAT number
- BE 0866.506.146
- Registered office
- Moortelputstraat 44, 9031 Gent
- Names & denominations
- LOOTENS BELGIE
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 19 July 2004
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 5 Oct 2025
- Activities · NACE
Coating van metalen
Oppervlaktebehandeling en bekleding van metaal
Overige industrie, neg
Oppervlaktebehandeling van metalen
Vervaardiging van metalen constructiewerken en delen daarvan
Groothandel in andere consumentenartikelen, neg
Vervaardiging van kantoor- en winkelmeubelen
Activiteiten van reclamebureaus
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