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Board fully replaced NBB
No director from three years ago is still active according to annual account 2025.
Financials
Financial year 2025
OPENLANE Europe from Tienen, company number BE0867129223, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 11.8 million after tax. For that financial year OPENLANE Europe recorded revenue of € 1.4 billion and equity of € 44.9 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 11.1 million to € 11.8 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 9, 2026.
€ 44.9 million
▲ 36% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 11.8 million
▲ 7% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 7.5 million
▼ 34% 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 € 41.7 million.
People and assets in 2025
112.3
▲ 3.9 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 11.3 million
▲ 13% vs 2024
€ 100,400 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.
€ 809,516
▲ 30% 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.
€ 30.2 million
▲ 10% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 8 days on average.
€ 5.4 million
▼ 5% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 832,696,310 | € 1,040,829,152 | € 1,306,075,812 | € 1,387,882,042 | ▲ 6% |
| Profit after taxes | € 4,740,143 | € 15,226,945 | € 11,070,479 | € 11,814,094 | ▲ 7% |
| Equity | € 19,251,036 | € 21,977,982 | € 33,048,460 | € 44,862,554 | ▲ 36% |
| Total debts | € 30,661,569 | € 56,515,210 | € 65,960,135 | € 50,591,439 | ▼ 23% |
| Cash | € 6,857,631 | € 1,937,859 | € 11,365,128 | € 7,515,934 | ▼ 34% |
| Retained profit | € 16,051,546 | € 18,778,492 | € 29,848,970 | € 41,663,064 | ▲ 40% |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 12,500,000 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Bank debt | € 3,500,000 | € 15,900,000 | € 20,000,000 | € 0 | ▼ 100% |
| Balance sheet total | € 49,912,605 | € 78,493,191 | € 99,008,595 | € 95,453,993 | ▼ 4% |
| Employees (FTE) | 87.1 | 95.2 | 108.4 | 112.3 | ▲ 3.9 |
Key figures of OPENLANE Europe, 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 OPENLANE Europe?
What happened at OPENLANE Europe in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Bradley Powell Herring stepped down as director. NBB
- AJR Finance BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Peter Kelly stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 11.8 million (▲ 7% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Bradley Powell Herring became a director. NBB
- Brad Lakhia stepped down as director. NBB
- Brad Lakhia became a director. NBB
- Dunboyne Consulting BV became a director. NBB
In short
From € 4.7 million profit in 2022 to € 11.8 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 11.9 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 15.2 million profit.
Paid out € 12.5 million in dividends to the owners in total.
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De Lijn 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025
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What was left
€ 20 k ▼ 91%
Money in the bank
€ 178 k ▼ 98%
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Management
The stake of OPENLANE Europe Holding comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
OPENLANE EuropeBehind OPENLANE Europe is Dunboyne Consulting BV. The shares are held by OPENLANE Europe Holding (99.9%). It owns 100% of OPENLANE Deutschland GmbH, 100% of OPENLANE France, 100% of OPENLANE ITALIA S.r.l. a Socio Unico, 100% of OPENLANE Espana, S.L., 100% of OPENLANE The Netherlands and 100% of Car Quality Services GmbH itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Dunboyne Consulting BV
Director · represented by Grainne van Berkum
Also active at: OPENLANE Europe Holding, OPENLANE Belgium
since 2023
since 2025 · until 2030
Director · represented by Peter Suy
Also active at: OPENLANE Europe Holding, OPENLANE Belgium
since 2023 · until 2029
since 2024 · until 2025
since 2022 · until 2027
Shareholders
99.9%
Participations
100%
OPENLANE ITALIA S.r.l. a Socio Unico
100%
OPENLANE Espana, S.L.
100%
OPENLANE The Netherlands
100%
99.9%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Grijpenlaan 19 box A
3300 Tienen
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Details
- Company number
- 0867.129.223
- VAT number
- BE 0867.129.223
- Registered office
- Grijpenlaan 19 bus A, 3300 Tienen
- Names & denominations
- OPENLANE Europe
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 27 August 2004
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 18 Dec 2025
- Activities · NACE
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