Financials
Financial year 2025
General Trading Company from Damme, company number BE0877663423, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 215,558 after tax. For that financial year General Trading Company recorded a gross margin of € 1.4 million and equity of € 988,519. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 232,557 to € 215,558. 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 September 30, 2026.
€ 988,519
▲ 28% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 215,558
▼ 7% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 721,484
▲ 16% 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 € 968,519.
People and assets in 2025
16.1
▼ 0.7 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 772,803
▲ 12% vs 2024
€ 48,000 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.
€ 50,233
▲ 3% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 423,525
▼ 13% vs 2024
€ 93,702 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 5 years.
€ 32,567
▼ 12% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 113,914
▼ 40% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 1,100,165 | € 1,304,613 | € 1,314,892 | € 1,397,313 | ▲ 6% |
| Profit after taxes | € 224,594 | € 170,268 | € 232,557 | € 215,558 | ▼ 7% |
| Equity | € 722,795 | € 893,063 | € 772,960 | € 988,519 | ▲ 28% |
| Total debts | € 1,220,594 | € 1,255,483 | € 1,649,116 | € 1,068,212 | ▼ 35% |
| Cash | € 758,990 | € 362,141 | € 619,503 | € 721,484 | ▲ 16% |
| Retained profit | € 702,795 | € 873,063 | € 752,960 | € 968,519 | ▲ 29% |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 0 | € 352,660 | € 0 | ▼ 100% |
| Bank debt | € 425,000 | € 365,000 | € 484,318 | € 423,525 | ▼ 13% |
| Balance sheet total | € 1,943,389 | € 2,148,546 | € 2,422,077 | € 2,056,731 | ▼ 15% |
| Employees (FTE) | 15.4 | 15.9 | 16.8 | 16.1 | ▼ 0.7 |
Key figures of General Trading Company, 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 General Trading Company?
What happened at General Trading Company in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 215,558 (▼ 7% vs 2024). filed late Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Brugge. KBO
- New establishment in Brugge. KBO
- New establishment in Brugge. KBO
- New establishment in Damme. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 224,594 profit in 2022 to € 215,558 profit in 2025.
Paid € 323,252 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 232,557 profit.
On average € 86,800 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
Behind General Trading Company is Dirk Van den Bossche.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Dirk Van den Bossche
Director
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Vossenberg 7
8340 Damme
Wollestraat 29 box D
8000 Brugge
Active since 15 February 2015
Riddersstraat 15
8000 Brugge
Active since 1 April 2019
Steenhouwersdijk 3
8000 Brugge
Active since 15 March 2019
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 2 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.
Details
- Company number
- 0877.663.423
- VAT number
- BE 0877.663.423
- Registered office
- Vossenberg 7, 8340 Damme
- Names & denominations
- General Trading Company · Genco
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 2 December 2005
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