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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 53 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Hemingway from Oostende, company number BE0897298597, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 4,035 after tax. For that financial year Hemingway recorded a gross margin of € 227,660 and equity of € 119,966. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 3,496 to € 4,035. Profitable, and profit is growing. The buffer is growing. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on July 31, 2026.
€ 119,966
▲ 3% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 4,035
▲ 15% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 32,238
▲ 22% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 833 paid out
21 % of the profit went to the shareholders, the rest stayed in the company.
People and assets in 2025
€ 138,070
▲ 22% 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.
€ 41,335
▼ 16% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 110,090
▼ 23% vs 2024
€ 34,037 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 3 years.
€ 85,665
▲ 5% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 50,434
▲ 143% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 157,967 | € 131,369 | € 192,044 | € 227,660 | ▲ 19% |
| Profit after taxes | € 42,420 | € 26,619 | € 3,496 | € 4,035 | ▲ 15% |
| Equity | € 88,281 | € 114,101 | € 116,763 | € 119,966 | ▲ 3% |
| Total debts | € 222,902 | € 184,197 | € 291,521 | € 265,413 | ▼ 9% |
| Cash | € 16,389 | € 27,670 | € 26,498 | € 32,238 | ▲ 22% |
| Retained profit | € 69,681 | € 95,501 | € 98,163 | € 101,366 | ▲ 3% |
| Dividend | € 8,750 | € 800 | € 833 | € 833 | |
| Bank debt | € 62,971 | € 53,430 | € 142,551 | € 110,090 | ▼ 23% |
| Balance sheet total | € 311,183 | € 298,298 | € 408,284 | € 385,379 | ▼ 6% |
Key figures of Hemingway, 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 Hemingway?
What happened at Hemingway in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 4,035 (▲ 15% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Oostende. KBO
- David Deschepper became a director. NBB
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 42,420 profit in 2022 to € 4,035 profit in 2025.
Paid € 20,172 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 42,420 profit.
Paid out € 11,216 in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
Behind Hemingway is David Deschepper.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
David Deschepper
Director
since 2008
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Langestraat 15
8400 Oostende
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 2 companies are registered at this address.
All companies at this address →What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0897.298.597
- VAT number
- BE 0897.298.597
- Registered office
- Langestraat 15, 8400 Oostende
- Names & denominations
- Hemingway
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 14 April 2008
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