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Signals from the annual accounts, the CBE and the Official Gazette, each with its threshold and source. No score, no verdict.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 12.1 to 10.3.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Chauffage Coussement from Gent, company number BE0400077785, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 194,159 after tax. For that financial year Chauffage Coussement recorded a gross margin of € 1.1 million and equity of € 829,291. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 213,580 to € 194,159. 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 June 16, 2026.
€ 829,291
▲ 13% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 194,159
▼ 9% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 534,019
▲ 3% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 96,000 paid out
49 % of the profit went to the shareholders, mostly to Advices for Technical Systems (80 % of the shares). That is where the money ends up.
People and assets in 2025
10.3
▼ 1 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 573,745
▼ 10% vs 2024
€ 55,700 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.
€ 27,451
▼ 16% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 525,000
▼ 27% vs 2024
€ 140,000 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 4 years.
€ 186,749
▼ 23% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 25,198
▼ 29% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 967,347 | € 980,680 | € 1,091,176 | € 1,097,212 | ▲ 1% |
| Profit after taxes | € 198,944 | € -424,237 | € 213,580 | € 194,159 | ▼ 9% |
| Equity | € 941,789 | € 517,552 | € 731,131 | € 829,291 | ▲ 13% |
| Total debts | € 998,097 | € 1,350,473 | € 1,020,520 | € 849,370 | ▼ 17% |
| Cash | € 264,222 | € 439,976 | € 520,694 | € 534,019 | ▲ 3% |
| Land & buildings | - | € 375,577 | € 356,512 | € 338,250 | ▼ 5% |
| Retained profit | € 923,197 | € 456,052 | € 669,631 | € 767,791 | ▲ 15% |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 0 | € 0 | € 96,000 | |
| Bank debt | € 616,830 | € 972,078 | € 723,957 | € 525,000 | ▼ 27% |
| Balance sheet total | € 1,939,886 | € 1,868,024 | € 1,751,651 | € 1,678,660 | ▼ 4% |
| Employees (FTE) | 12.8 | 12.1 | 11.3 | 10.3 | ▼ 1 |
Key figures of Chauffage Coussement, 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 Chauffage Coussement?
What happened at Chauffage Coussement in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Filip De Bruyne stepped down as director. NBB
- Melior BV stepped down as director. NBB
- René Schepens stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 194,159 (▼ 9% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Filip De Bruyne became a director. NBB
- René Schepens became a director. NBB
- Melior BV became a director. NBB
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 198,944 profit in 2022 to € 194,159 profit in 2025.
Paid € 298,718 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 213,580 profit.
On average € 106,500 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of Advices for Technical Systems comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
Chauffage CoussementThe shares are held by Advices for Technical Systems (80%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
René Schepens
Chairman of the board
Also active at: VDC ROESELARE, ATS Antwerp, ALGEMENE ELEKTRICITEIT DE MULDER, ACAR, Gezel, Emaco International, Advices for Technical Systems, DE JONGE LUC +22 more
since 2021 · until 2027
since 2021 · until 2027
Filip De Bruyne
Director
since 2025 · until 2029
Shareholders
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Antoon Catriestraat 33
9031 Gent
Jan Delvinlaan 98
9000 Gent
Active since 1 July 1966
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0400.077.785
- VAT number
- BE 0400.077.785
- Registered office
- Antoon Catriestraat 33, 9031 Gent
- Names & denominations
- Chauffage Coussement
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 13 July 1966
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 1 Jan 2001
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