Financials
Financial year 2025
BEN & CHOCOLATS from Awans, company number BE0877764876, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 257,432 after tax. For that financial year BEN & CHOCOLATS recorded a gross margin of € 1.9 million and equity of € 2.7 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 475,889 to € 257,432. 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 August 25, 2026.
€ 2.7 million
▲ 6% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 257,432
▼ 46% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 765,386
▲ 37% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 123,500 paid out
48 % of the profit went to the shareholders, the rest stayed in the company.
People and assets in 2025
25.2
▼ 0.6 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.2 million
▲ 9% vs 2024
€ 49,500 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.
€ 94,445
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 1.3 million
▲ 14% vs 2024
€ 146,777 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 9 years.
€ 61,121
▼ 53% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 171,672
▼ 5% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 1,782,724 | € 1,889,345 | € 2,120,026 | € 1,899,840 | ▼ 10% |
| Profit after taxes | € 438,323 | € 500,360 | € 475,889 | € 257,432 | ▼ 46% |
| Equity | € 1,706,895 | € 2,132,375 | € 2,574,195 | € 2,717,333 | ▲ 6% |
| Total debts | € 1,676,168 | € 1,633,798 | € 1,424,862 | € 1,504,981 | ▲ 6% |
| Cash | € 768,578 | € 479,392 | € 559,792 | € 765,386 | ▲ 37% |
| Land & buildings | € 1,644,370 | € 1,922,136 | € 1,869,038 | € 1,845,768 | ▼ 1% |
| Retained profit | € 1,377,705 | € 1,645,566 | € 2,121,455 | € 2,255,387 | ▲ 6% |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 215,000 | € 0 | € 123,500 | |
| Bank debt | € 1,009,780 | € 1,226,429 | € 1,101,455 | € 1,260,370 | ▲ 14% |
| Balance sheet total | € 3,392,073 | € 3,774,622 | € 4,006,944 | € 4,229,640 | ▲ 6% |
| Employees (FTE) | 22.6 | 22.7 | 25.8 | 25.2 | ▼ 0.6 |
Key figures of BEN & CHOCOLATS, 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 BEN & CHOCOLATS?
What happened at BEN & CHOCOLATS in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 257,432 (▼ 46% vs 2024). filed late Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Sint-Pieters-Woluwe. KBO
- New establishment in Liège. KBO
- New establishment in Elsene. KBO
- New establishment in Awans. KBO
- New establishment in Chaudfontaine. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 438,323 profit in 2022 to € 257,432 profit in 2025.
Paid € 647,598 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 500,360 profit.
On average € 75,400 of value added per employee in 2025.
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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 BEN & CHOCOLATS are Benoît Louis Nihant and Anne Chantal Nyssen.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Benoît Louis Nihant
Director
Anne Chantal Nyssen
Director
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Rue de l'Estampage 6
4340 Awans
Voie de l'Ardenne 45
4053 Chaudfontaine
Active since 23 January 2006
Tenbosstraat 149
1050 Elsene
Active since 3 December 2014
Rue du Pot-d'Or 10 box B
4000 Liège
Active since 23 June 2016
Kerkstraat 166
1150 Sint-Pieters-Woluwe
Active since 1 February 2022
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0877.764.876
- VAT number
- BE 0877.764.876
- Registered office
- Rue de l'Estampage 6, 4340 Awans
- Names & denominations
- BEN & CHOCOLATS
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 7 December 2005
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 18 Mar 2025
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