Financials
Financial year 2025
THE BROWN COMPANY from Knokke-Heist, company number BE0894703056, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 584,505 after tax. For that financial year THE BROWN COMPANY recorded a gross margin of € 985,484 and equity of € 2.6 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 1.1 million to € 584,505. 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 July 29, 2026.
€ 2.6 million
▲ 29% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 584,505
▼ 48% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 1.1 million
▼ 32% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Stays in the company
No dividend for 2025. Retained profit grew to € 2.6 million.
People and assets in 2025
0.8
▲ 0.6 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 37,656
▲ € 28,819 vs 2024
Payroll staff only. What the director pays themselves is already netted into the gross margin and is not shown separately in the accounts.
€ 627,638
▲ 28% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 284,226
▲ € 238,259 vs 2024
€ 38,970 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 7 years.
€ 303,385
▲ 167% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 68,853
▲ € 53,269 vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 836,528 | € 1,510,501 | € 1,599,101 | € 985,484 | ▼ 38% |
| Profit after taxes | € 498,426 | € 1,045,419 | € 1,121,192 | € 584,505 | ▼ 48% |
| Equity | € 1,700,917 | € 2,746,337 | € 2,017,528 | € 2,602,033 | ▲ 29% |
| Total debts | € 2,492,713 | € 51,246 | € 1,025,937 | € 661,517 | ▼ 36% |
| Cash | € 2,814,381 | € 876,609 | € 1,676,860 | € 1,134,682 | ▼ 32% |
| Land & buildings | € 378,242 | € 362,443 | € 334,283 | € 306,123 | ▼ 8% |
| Retained profit | € 1,682,317 | € 2,727,737 | € 1,998,928 | € 2,583,433 | ▲ 29% |
| Dividend | € 400,000 | € 0 | € 1,850,000 | € 0 | ▼ 100% |
| Bank debt | € 2,815 | € 2,746 | € 45,967 | € 284,226 | ▲ € 238,259 |
| Balance sheet total | € 4,193,631 | € 2,797,583 | € 3,043,465 | € 3,263,550 | ▲ 7% |
| Employees (FTE) | 1 | 1 | 0.2 | 0.8 | ▲ 0.6 |
Key figures of THE BROWN COMPANY, 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 THE BROWN COMPANY?
What happened at THE BROWN COMPANY in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 584,505 (▼ 48% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Knokke-Heist. KBO
- New establishment in Knokke-Heist. KBO
- New establishment in Knokke-Heist. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 498,426 profit in 2022 to € 584,505 profit in 2025.
Paid € 1.2 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 1.1 million profit.
On average € 1.5 million of value added per employee in 2023.
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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%
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Management
The stake of Kranbel Holdings comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
THE BROWN COMPANYBehind THE BROWN COMPANY are Kranbel Holdings, Stefaan Geerebaert and Patricia Lemaitre. The shares are held by Kranbel Holdings (33.3%). It owns 100% of Brown International Company sarl itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Associate · represented by Gerard Van Liempt
Stefaan Geerebaert
Director
Patricia Lemaitre
Director
Shareholders
33.3%
Participations
Brown International Company sarl
100%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Kustlaan 271
8300 Knokke-Heist
Sparrendreef 80
8300 Knokke-Heist
Active since 15 January 2008
Sparrendreef 82
8300 Knokke-Heist
Active since 16 June 2026
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0894.703.056
- VAT number
- BE 0894.703.056
- Registered office
- Kustlaan 271, 8300 Knokke-Heist
- Names & denominations
- THE BROWN COMPANY · IMMO BROWN
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 8 January 2008
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 8 Dec 2025
- Activities · NACE
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