Financials
Financial year 2025
DE MESS from Damme, company number BE0888318971, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 12,634 after tax. For that financial year DE MESS recorded a gross margin of € 425,070 and equity of € 281,197. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 114,649 to € 12,634. 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 20, 2026.
€ 281,197
▲ 4% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 12,634
▼ 89% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 67,667
▼ 20% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 1,718 paid out
14 % of the profit went to the shareholders, the rest stayed in the company.
People and assets in 2025
21.7
▲ 1.8 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 280,264
▼ 32% vs 2024
€ 12,900 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.
€ 89,786
▼ 11% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 413,751
▼ 12% vs 2024
€ 56,171 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 7 years.
€ 24,450
▼ 53% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 24,546
▼ 24% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 234,823 | € 321,472 | € 686,846 | € 425,070 | ▼ 38% |
| Profit after taxes | € -27,762 | € 49,259 | € 114,649 | € 12,634 | ▼ 89% |
| Equity | € 123,579 | € 158,898 | € 270,281 | € 281,197 | ▲ 4% |
| Total debts | € 157,099 | € 615,312 | € 586,585 | € 517,722 | ▼ 12% |
| Cash | € 89,809 | € 76,625 | € 84,899 | € 67,667 | ▼ 20% |
| Land & buildings | € 15,762 | € 547,416 | € 518,542 | € 489,667 | ▼ 6% |
| Retained profit | € 104,979 | € 140,298 | € 251,681 | € 262,597 | ▲ 4% |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 0 | € 3,266 | € 1,718 | ▼ 47% |
| Bank debt | € 54,739 | € 479,679 | € 469,905 | € 413,751 | ▼ 12% |
| Balance sheet total | € 280,678 | € 774,210 | € 856,866 | € 798,920 | ▼ 7% |
| Employees (FTE) | - | - | 19.9 | 21.7 | ▲ 1.8 |
Key figures of DE MESS, 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 DE MESS?
What happened at DE MESS in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 12,634 (▼ 89% vs 2024). filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Vincent Brabant became a director. NBB
- Wouter Willems became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Damme. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 27,762 loss in 2022 to € 12,634 profit in 2025.
Paid € 58,981 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 114,649 profit.
On average € 19,600 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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Management
Behind DE MESS are Vincent Brabant and Wouter Willems.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Vincent Brabant
Administrator-manager
since 2016
Wouter Willems
Administrator-manager
since 2016
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Bloemisterijstraat 1
8340 Damme
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Website
Technologies
Hosting & Email
Email provider
Self-hosted
Hosting
COMBELL-AS, BE
Website info
Features
Security
Network
Details
- Company number
- 0888.318.971
- VAT number
- BE 0888.318.971
- Registered office
- Bloemisterijstraat 1, 8340 Damme
- Names & denominations
- DE MESS
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 28 March 2007
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 30 Aug 2023
- Contact
- demess.be
- Activities · NACE
Catering van evenementen
Uitzendkoks en verzorgen van feesten en recepties
Cateringdiensten op contractbasis en overige diensten in verband met maaltijden
Catering
Overige eetgelegenheden
Handelsbemiddeling in de groothandel in voedings- en genotmiddelen
Handelsbemiddeling in voedings- en genotmiddelen