Financials
Financial year 2025
LAWTER EUROPE from Beveren-Kruibeke-Zwijndrecht, company number BE0866536335, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 6.9 million after tax. For that financial year LAWTER EUROPE recorded revenue of € 91.9 million and equity of € 72.8 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 922,626 to € 6.9 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 June 25, 2026.
€ 72.8 million
▲ 10% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 6.9 million
▲ € 5.9 million vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 1.4 million
▲ 44% 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 € 10.5 million.
People and assets in 2025
125.8
▲ 2.6 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 15.5 million
▲ 7% vs 2024
€ 123,000 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.
Debts at end 2025
€ 8.9 million
▼ 29% vs 2024
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 9 million
▼ 35% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 45 days on average.
€ 2.9 million
▲ 16% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2021 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 111,525,121 | € 90,124,284 | € 91,857,791 | ▲ 2% |
| Profit after taxes | € 10,100,620 | € 922,626 | € 6,851,233 | ▲ € 5.9 million |
| Equity | € 53,300,649 | € 65,995,915 | € 72,847,148 | ▲ 10% |
| Total debts | € 47,625,102 | € 28,885,984 | € 20,816,457 | ▼ 28% |
| Cash | € 245,844 | € 1,002,737 | € 1,442,100 | ▲ 44% |
| Retained profit | € -9,031,609 | € 3,663,657 | € 10,514,890 | ▲ 187% |
| Bank debt | € 23,655,417 | € 12,599,695 | € 8,887,673 | ▼ 29% |
| Balance sheet total | € 101,963,733 | € 94,885,166 | € 93,667,449 | ▼ 1% |
| Employees (FTE) | 127.7 | 123.2 | 125.8 | ▲ 2.6 |
Key figures of LAWTER EUROPE, fiscal years 2021 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 LAWTER EUROPE?
What happened at LAWTER EUROPE in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 6.9 million (▲ € 5.9 million vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Hironori Matsushima became a director. NBB
- Mikio Katayama became a director. NBB
- Jaap Van Den Born became a director. NBB
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
- New establishment in Beveren. KBO
In short
From € 10.1 million profit in 2021 to € 6.9 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 689,140 in corporate taxes since 2021.
Best year ever: 2021, with € 10.1 million profit.
Pays suppliers within 45 days on average.
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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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Management
Behind LAWTER EUROPE are Mikio Katayama, Jaap Van Den Born and Hironori Matsushima. The shares are held by Lawter Capital B.V. (100%). It owns 99% of Lawter Argentina S.A. and 24.7% of Sunpine AB itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Mikio Katayama
Director
since 2017
Jaap Van Den Born
Director
since 2015
Hironori Matsushima
Director
since 2020
Shareholders
Lawter Capital B.V.
100%
Participations
Lawter Argentina S.A.
99%
Sunpine AB
24.7%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Ketenislaan(KAL) 1C
9130 Beveren-Kruibeke-Zwijndrecht
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0866.536.335
- VAT number
- BE 0866.536.335
- Registered office
- Ketenislaan(KAL) 1C, 9130 Beveren-Kruibeke-Zwijndrecht
- Names & denominations
- LAWTER EUROPE
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 27 July 2004
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