Financials
Financial year 2025
BIOBEST GROUP from Westerlo, company number BE0893948337, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 11.6 million after tax. For that financial year BIOBEST GROUP recorded revenue of € 78.8 million and equity of € 523.7 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 5.1 million to € 11.6 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 23, 2026.
€ 523.7 million
▲ 2% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 11.6 million
▲ 129% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 13.3 million
▲ 92% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 3.5 million paid out
30 % of the profit went to the shareholders, mostly to Floridienne (59 % of the shares). That is where the money ends up.
People and assets in 2025
289.8
▲ 27.8 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 24.8 million
▲ 21% vs 2024
€ 85,500 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.
€ 1.8 million
▼ 1% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 161.4 million
▲ 16% vs 2024
€ 5.1 million is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 25 years.
€ 13.8 million
▲ 12% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 71 days on average.
€ 5 million
▲ 34% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 72,153,769 | € 66,525,332 | € 74,886,646 | € 78,780,719 | ▲ 5% |
| Profit after taxes | € -2,078,597 | € -9,412,025 | € 5,085,839 | € 11,625,026 | ▲ 129% |
| Equity | € 62,114,370 | € 515,448,409 | € 515,545,621 | € 523,669,856 | ▲ 2% |
| Total debts | € 136,030,442 | € 121,000,248 | € 165,939,534 | € 185,725,571 | ▲ 12% |
| Cash | € 3,281,137 | € 3,914,105 | € 6,939,829 | € 13,337,044 | ▲ 92% |
| Land & buildings | € 2,939,545 | € 2,718,933 | € 9,978,556 | € 13,565,037 | ▲ 36% |
| Retained profit | € 5,657,719 | € -5,253,517 | € 891,748 | € 9,015,983 | ▲ € 8.1 million |
| Dividend | € 2,013,538 | € 1,499,211 | € 4,988,627 | € 3,500,791 | ▼ 30% |
| Bank debt | € 117,767,315 | € 94,568,796 | € 139,165,692 | € 161,420,475 | ▲ 16% |
| Balance sheet total | € 198,144,812 | € 636,448,657 | € 681,485,155 | € 709,395,427 | ▲ 4% |
| Employees (FTE) | 249.2 | 253.5 | 262 | 289.8 | ▲ 27.8 |
Key figures of BIOBEST GROUP, 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 BIOBEST GROUP?
What happened at BIOBEST GROUP in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Zempar Participaçoes LTDA stepped down as director. NBB
- Tikehau Investment Manager SAS stepped down as director. NBB
- MxBee SAS stepped down as director. NBB
- Beluflo NV stepped down as director. NBB
- Hexagon Advisory stepped down as director. NBB
- Niranjan Sirdeshpande stepped down as director. NBB
- JM Vandoorne BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Freshwater Bay Management BV stepped down as director. NBB
In short
From € 2.1 million loss in 2022 to € 11.6 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 67,605 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 11.6 million profit.
Paid out € 12 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 CRESCENDO, IC Group H, A16W comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
BIOBEST GROUPThe shares are held by Floridienne (59.1%), Sofina (11.1%), MxBee (5.6%), Luxembourg Specialist Investment Fund FCP-RAIF (5.1%), CRESCENDO (0.1%) and IC Group H (0.1%). It owns 100% of BioWorks, 100% of Distributiones Imex SA de CV, 100% of Biobest Agrotech Austria, 100% of Real IPM, 100% of Borregaard Bioplant and 100% of Biobest do Brazil itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Niranjan Sirdeshpande
Director
since 2023 · until 2027
Alexi Gantelme
Director
since 2022 · until 2026
Managing director · represented by Jean-Marc Vandoorne-Feys
Also active at: House of Coffee, IC Group H, BioWorks
since 2023 · until 2027
since 2024 · until 2025
Zempar Participaçoes LTDA
Director · represented by Antonio Carlos Zem
since 2025 · until 2029
Director · represented by Herman Wielfaert
Also active at: Floridienne, CREAFUND MANAGEMENT, CARE INVESTCO
since 2023 · until 2027
MxBee SAS
Director · represented by Thierry Chignon
since 2024 · until 2028
Tikehau Investment Manager SAS
Director · represented by Noelline Thiercelin
since 2024 · until 2028
Director · represented by Gaëtan Waucquez
Owns 23.7% via Floridienne
Also active at: Floridienne, Natix, EUROQUARTZ
since 2024 · until 2028
Director · represented by Thibaut Hofman
Also active at: Société d'Etudes Techniques au Hainaut, Blue Star Chemicals, Natix, CHEMCOM, OLFADOG BIOTECH, ENZYBEL INTERNATIONAL
since 2024 · until 2028
Shareholders
Floridienne · holding of Beluflo NV
59.1%
11.1%
MxBee
5.6%
Luxembourg Specialist Investment Fund FCP-RAIF
5.1%
0.1%
0.1%
Participations
100%
Distributiones Imex SA de CV
100%
Biobest Agrotech Austria
100%
Real IPM
100%
Borregaard Bioplant
100%
Biobest do Brazil
100%
Biobest USA
100%
Biobest UK Ltd.
100%
Eurl Biobest France
100%
Biobest Deutschland
100%
Biobest Antalya
100%
Biobest Sistemas Biologicos SL
100%
Biobest Nederland BV
100%
Biobest italy
100%
Biopartner SP. Z O.O. DIRECT
100%
Biobest Canada Ltd.
90%
Biobest Biological Control China Ltd
90%
IVOG Biotechnical Systems Gmbh
80%
Biobest Mexico SA
80%
Biobest Argentina
55%
Biological Services Australia
51%
Pollination Services Yad Mordechai 1995 / Agricultural Cooperative Society Ltd
51%
Biobetter Maroc
50%
Biobest Maroc
30%
Arugga AI Farming
14.2%
13.7%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Ilse Velden 18
2260 Westerlo
Hannekenshoek(HRT) 34 box A
2200 Herentals
Active since 7 February 2024
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Website
Technologies
Hosting & Email
Email provider
Microsoft 365
Hosting
AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US
Domain
Domain
biobest.com
Registered
2000-01-09
Registrar
Combell NV
Expires
2027-01-09
Website info
Features
Security
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Details
- Company number
- 0893.948.337
- VAT number
- BE 0893.948.337
- Registered office
- Ilse Velden 18, 2260 Westerlo
- Names & denominations
- BIOBEST GROUP
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 5 December 2007
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 1 Jan 2001
- Contact
- biobest.com
- Activities · NACE
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