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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 49 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
KNOKKE RETAIL from Knokke-Heist, company number BE0897560301, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 214,527 after tax. For that financial year KNOKKE RETAIL recorded a gross margin of € 515,156 and equity of € 74,068. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 283,485 to € 214,527. The company is profitable. The buffer shrank hard: equity is 70 % below last year. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on August 29, 2026.
€ 74,068
▼ 70% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 214,527
▼ 24% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 118,612
▼ 59% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 388,031 paid out
More than the year’s profit went to the shareholders; reserves fell.
People and assets in 2025
5.4
▲ 0.5 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 203,970
▲ 12% vs 2024
€ 37,800 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.
Debts at end 2025
€ 175,093
▼ 5% vs 2024
€ 66,422 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 1 years.
€ 381,147
▲ € 334,247 vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 90,025
▼ 28% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2023 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 320,093 | € 456,974 | € 586,775 | € 515,156 | ▼ 12% |
| Profit after taxes | € 204,380 | € 201,885 | € 283,485 | € 214,527 | ▼ 24% |
| Equity | € 560,452 | € 297,337 | € 247,572 | € 74,068 | ▼ 70% |
| Total debts | € 493,193 | € 784,947 | € 658,571 | € 890,005 | ▲ 35% |
| Cash | € 617,249 | € 123,712 | € 289,355 | € 118,612 | ▼ 59% |
| Land & buildings | € 42,750 | € 38,396 | - | - | |
| Retained profit | € 539,548 | € 276,433 | € 226,668 | € 53,164 | ▼ 77% |
| Dividend | € 24,605 | € 465,000 | € 333,250 | € 388,031 | ▲ 16% |
| Bank debt | € 170,884 | € 162,777 | € 184,951 | € 175,093 | ▼ 5% |
| Balance sheet total | € 1,053,645 | € 1,082,284 | € 906,143 | € 964,073 | ▲ 6% |
| Employees (FTE) | 5.9 | 4.4 | 4.9 | 5.4 | ▲ 0.5 |
Key figures of KNOKKE RETAIL, fiscal years 2023 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 KNOKKE RETAIL?
What happened at KNOKKE RETAIL in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 214,527 (▼ 24% vs 2024). filed late Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Knokke-Heist. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 204,380 profit in 2023 to € 214,527 profit in 2025.
Paid € 170,074 in corporate taxes since 2023.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 283,485 profit.
On average € 95,400 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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NMBS 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left ▼ 80%
bpost 18 May 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left from loss to profit
Management
The stake of VL RETAIL comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
KNOKKE RETAILBehind KNOKKE RETAIL are MAARTENS MASTER KITCHEN BV and VL RETAIL BV. The shares are held by VL RETAIL (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Bestuurder · represented by Maarten Chudzicki
Also active at: ABC RELATIONS, Dune Retail
Bestuurder · represented by Frederic Van Landeghem
Also active at: SCHELDEWINDEKE RETAIL, UNIC MERE, IMMAWIMBA, IMMO LEMAHIEU, NAZA RETAIL, BRICK RETAIL, MERE-RETAIL, AALST RETAIL +1 more
Shareholders
100%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Lippenslaan 261
8300 Knokke-Heist
Lippenslaan 261/263
8300 Knokke-Heist
Active since 17 December 2008
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 1 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0897.560.301
- VAT number
- BE 0897.560.301
- Registered office
- Lippenslaan 261, 8300 Knokke-Heist
- Names & denominations
- KNOKKE RETAIL
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 25 April 2008
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 28 Aug 2025
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