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Signals from the annual accounts, the CBE and the Official Gazette, each with its threshold and source. No score, no verdict.
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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2024 and 2025.
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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 38 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Les secrets du Chef from Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, company number BE0883164016, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -23,168 after tax. For that financial year Les secrets du Chef recorded a gross margin of € 678,764 and equity of € 41,795. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -117,384 to € -23,168. The company made a loss. The company holds a healthy buffer. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on April 30, 2026.
€ 41,795
▼ 36% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -23,168
▲ 80 % less loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 12,650
▼ 18% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -205.
People and assets in 2025
16.8
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 619,479
▲ 8% vs 2024
€ 36,900 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.
€ 31,401
▼ 24% vs 2024
Of which on lease € 30,740.
Debts at end 2025
€ 157,867
▼ 24% vs 2024
€ 57,137 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 1 years.
€ 365,025
▲ 19% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 85,647
▲ 21% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 645,160 | € 635,763 | € 552,876 | € 678,764 | ▲ 23% |
| Profit after taxes | € -15,008 | € -21,125 | € -117,384 | € -23,168 | ▲ € 94,216 |
| Equity | € 203,473 | € 182,347 | € 64,963 | € 41,795 | ▼ 36% |
| Total debts | € 670,795 | € 875,604 | € 754,630 | € 792,098 | ▲ 5% |
| Cash | € 13,004 | € 22,397 | € 15,346 | € 12,650 | ▼ 18% |
| Retained profit | € 161,473 | € 140,347 | € 22,963 | € -205 | ▼ € 23,168 |
| Bank debt | € 211,025 | € 215,491 | € 209,045 | € 157,867 | ▼ 24% |
| Balance sheet total | € 874,268 | € 1,057,951 | € 819,594 | € 833,893 | ▲ 2% |
| Employees (FTE) | 13.4 | 15.7 | - | 16.8 |
Key figures of Les secrets du Chef, 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.
What happened to Les secrets du Chef?
What happened at Les secrets du Chef in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 23,168. Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Namur. KBO
- New establishment in Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe. KBO
- New establishment in Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 15,008 loss in 2022 to € 23,168 loss in 2025.
Paid € 2,959 in corporate taxes since 2022.
On average € 40,400 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 Les secrets du Chef are ALEXANDRE LEROUGE and FABIAN HENNUS. The same people are also behind HOKI and LSDC FRANCHISING.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Rue Charlemagne 22
1348 Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve
Rue Charlemagne 22-
1348 Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve
Active since 5 October 2006
Rue de Marchovelette 29
5000 Namur
Active since 1 December 2020
Woluwedal 70 box 97
1200 Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe
Active since 1 September 2020
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0883.164.016
- VAT number
- BE 0883.164.016
- Registered office
- Rue Charlemagne 22, 1348 Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve
- Names & denominations
- Les secrets du Chef · LSDC
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 25 August 2006
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 23 Dec 2025
- Activities · NACE
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