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Financials
Financial year 2025
Smekens-Batens from Gent, company number BE0894333169, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 175,752 after tax. For that financial year Smekens-Batens recorded a gross margin of € 262,036 and equity of € 1.2 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 194,549 to € 175,752. 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 24, 2026.
€ 1.2 million
▲ 6% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 175,752
▼ 10% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 1.4 million
▲ 7% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 108,968 paid out
62 % of the profit went to the shareholders, the rest stayed in the company.
People and assets in 2025
€ 36,552
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
None
No bank loans on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 8,333
▲ 21% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 37,030
▲ 90% vs 2024
Corporate tax and VAT still to pay. No wage debt: nothing outstanding to staff or social security.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 254,028 | € 253,469 | € 289,295 | € 262,036 | ▼ 9% |
| Profit after taxes | € 156,613 | € 162,068 | € 194,549 | € 175,752 | ▼ 10% |
| Equity | € 1,030,717 | € 1,072,692 | € 1,138,714 | € 1,205,498 | ▲ 6% |
| Total debts | € 207,285 | € 220,767 | € 136,642 | € 172,860 | ▲ 27% |
| Cash | € 1,236,518 | € 1,304,124 | € 1,288,645 | € 1,374,247 | ▲ 7% |
| Land & buildings | € 8,775 | € 7,093 | € 5,411 | € 3,728 | ▼ 31% |
| Retained profit | € 828,717 | € 870,692 | € 936,714 | € 1,003,498 | ▲ 7% |
| Dividend | € 95,945 | € 120,092 | € 128,528 | € 108,968 | ▼ 15% |
| Balance sheet total | € 1,306,319 | € 1,361,777 | € 1,343,673 | € 1,446,675 | ▲ 8% |
Key figures of Smekens-Batens, 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 Smekens-Batens?
What happened at Smekens-Batens in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 175,752 (▼ 10% vs 2024). filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Incorporation, published in the Gazette. Source: Staatsblad ↗
- Arsène - Hélène Batens became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Gent. KBO
- Jan Smekens became a director. NBB
In short
From € 156,613 profit in 2022 to € 175,752 profit in 2025.
Paid € 307,401 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 194,549 profit.
Paid out € 453,533 in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
Behind Smekens-Batens are Jan Smekens and Arsène - Hélène Batens.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Jan Smekens
Director
since 2007
Arsène - Hélène Batens
Director
since 2007
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Sint-Bernadettestraat 207
9000 Gent
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Shareholders according to the Official Gazette deeds
Who contributed at incorporation and at capital increases, with the deed as source. Later share transfers are not published in the Gazette.
Incorporation
Source: Deed ↗- Jan Smekens(vennoot) 50%
- Arsène Batens(vennoot) 50%
Details
- Company number
- 0894.333.169
- VAT number
- BE 0894.333.169
- Registered office
- Sint-Bernadettestraat 207, 9000 Gent
- Names & denominations
- Smekens-Batens
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 19 December 2007
- Peppol
- Not registered