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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2024 and 2025.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Universa from Wetteren, company number BE0400180725, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -12,203 after tax. For that financial year Universa recorded a gross margin of € 96,023 and equity of € 62,012. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -1,825 to € -12,203. The company made a loss. The company holds a healthy buffer. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on August 31, 2026.
€ 62,012
▼ 16% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -12,203
▼ 569 % more loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 31,099
▲ 216% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 35,983.
People and assets in 2025
≈ 1
No payroll staff. One director, so that person most likely runs the business.
€ 45,569
▼ 48% 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.
€ 11,343
▼ 45% vs 2024
Of which on lease € 103.
Debts at end 2025
€ 49,900
▼ 20% vs 2024
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 32,177
▼ 37% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 3,416
▼ 71% vs 2024
Corporate tax and VAT still to pay. No wage debt: nothing outstanding to staff or social security.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 139,630 | € 119,800 | € 110,584 | € 96,023 | ▼ 13% |
| Profit after taxes | € 7,493 | € -35,405 | € -1,825 | € -12,203 | ▼ € 10,378 |
| Equity | € 111,444 | € 76,039 | € 74,214 | € 62,012 | ▼ 16% |
| Total debts | € 109,481 | € 115,615 | € 124,902 | € 85,493 | ▼ 32% |
| Cash | € 13,516 | € 11,243 | € 9,844 | € 31,099 | ▲ 216% |
| Retained profit | € 85,415 | € 50,010 | € 48,186 | € 35,983 | ▼ 25% |
| Bank debt | € 60,895 | € 56,500 | € 62,068 | € 49,900 | ▼ 20% |
| Balance sheet total | € 220,925 | € 191,655 | € 199,116 | € 147,505 | ▼ 26% |
Key figures of Universa, 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 Universa?
What happened at Universa in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 12,203. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Guy De Wandel became a director. NBB
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
- New establishment in Wetteren. KBO
In short
From € 7,493 profit in 2022 to € 12,203 loss in 2025.
Paid € 12,576 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 7,493 profit.
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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
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Guy De Wandel
Director
since 2024
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Baerdonckstraat 70
9230 Wetteren
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0400.180.725
- VAT number
- BE 0400.180.725
- Registered office
- Baerdonckstraat 70, 9230 Wetteren
- Names & denominations
- Universa
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 13 October 1958
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 27 Mar 2026
- Activities · NACE
Overige activiteiten op het gebied van drukwerk
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Detailhandel in boeken
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