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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 30 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Autoveiligheid from Mechelen, company number BE0400824586, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 3 million after tax. For that financial year Autoveiligheid recorded revenue of € 64 million and equity of € 7.7 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 3.1 million to € 3 million. The company is profitable. The buffer is growing. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on April 28, 2026.
€ 7.7 million
▲ 1% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 3 million
▼ 4% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 1.2 million
▼ 9% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 2.9 million paid out
97 % of the profit went to the shareholders, mostly to Bureau voor Technische Controle NV (100 % of the shares). That is where the money ends up.
People and assets in 2025
530.1
▲ 12.4 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 45.6 million
▲ 6% vs 2024
€ 86,000 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.
€ 800,582
▼ 14% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
None
No bank loans on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 947,138
▼ 23% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 24 days on average.
€ 8.5 million
▲ 10% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 53,479,702 | € 60,098,919 | € 61,675,570 | € 64,017,479 | ▲ 4% |
| Profit after taxes | € 2,420,533 | € 3,037,844 | € 3,099,458 | € 2,989,648 | ▼ 4% |
| Equity | € 6,667,138 | € 7,304,981 | € 7,603,444 | € 7,693,092 | ▲ 1% |
| Total debts | € 19,884,079 | € 20,810,943 | € 21,980,198 | € 21,642,345 | ▼ 2% |
| Cash | € 2,996,597 | € 2,888,537 | € 1,360,801 | € 1,238,401 | ▼ 9% |
| Land & buildings | € 10,974,599 | € 11,374,263 | € 11,606,893 | € 11,598,266 | |
| Retained profit | € 1,953,301 | € 2,591,145 | € 2,890,603 | € 2,980,251 | ▲ 3% |
| Dividend | € 2,285,000 | € 2,400,000 | € 2,800,000 | € 2,900,000 | ▲ 4% |
| Balance sheet total | € 26,625,069 | € 28,159,876 | € 29,600,604 | € 29,353,020 | ▼ 1% |
| Employees (FTE) | 466.9 | 492.8 | 517.7 | 530.1 | ▲ 12.4 |
Key figures of Autoveiligheid, 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 Autoveiligheid?
What happened at Autoveiligheid in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Luc Leroy stepped down as director. NBB
- Luc Vanden Bussche stepped down as director. NBB
- Katleen Van Laer stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 3 million (▼ 4% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Antwerpen. KBO
- Luc Leroy became a director. NBB
- Luc Vanden Bussche became a director. NBB
- Katleen Van Laer became a director. NBB
In short
From € 2.4 million profit in 2022 to € 3 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 4.7 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 3.1 million profit.
Paid out € 10.4 million in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
The stake of GEVION comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
AutoveiligheidThe shares are held by Bureau voor Technische Controle NV (100%), KBTC Holding NV (0%) and GEVION (1%). It owns 0% of Bureau Voor Technische Controle itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Luc Leroy
Director
Also active at: CENTRUM VOOR TECHNISCHE AUTOMOBIELINSPECTIE, VINCOTTE, Bureau Voor Technische Controle, Vinçotte International, VINCOTTE ACADEMY, VINÇOTTE, KBTC Holding
since 2025 · until 2031
Katleen Van Laer
Managing director
Also active at: CENTRUM VOOR TECHNISCHE AUTOMOBIELINSPECTIE, Bureau Voor Technische Controle, groupement des societes agrees de controle automobile et du permis de conduire groepering van erkende ondernemingen voor autokeuring en rijbewijs
since 2023 · until 2029
since 2025 · until 2031
Shareholders
Participations
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Brusselsesteenweg 460
2800 Mechelen
Veedijk 2
2300 Turnhout
Active since 10 January 2005
Saturnusstraat 8
3290 Diest
Active since 10 January 2005
Lammerdries 7
2440 Geel
Active since 10 January 2005
Wouwerstraat 5A
2220 Heist-op-den-Berg
Active since 10 January 2005
Hoeikensstraat 1B
2830 Willebroek
Active since 10 January 2005
Industrieterrein Kolmen 1308
3570 Alken
Active since 10 January 2005
Eindhovensebaan 50
3940 Hechtel-Eksel
Active since 10 January 2005
Luikerstraat(Horpm.) 350
3870 Heers
Active since 10 January 2005
Lanklaarsesteenweg 5
3665 As
Active since 10 January 2005
Nieshofstraat 1
3960 Bree
Active since 10 January 2005
Sint Jobsesteenweg 134
2930 Brasschaat
Active since 10 December 2014
Ambachtsstraat 17
2390 Malle
Active since 10 December 2014
Neerveld 3 box A
2550 Kontich
Active since 10 December 2014
Santvoortbeeklaan 34 box 36
2100 Antwerpen
Active since 10 December 2014
Ambachtenlaan 10
3001 Leuven
Active since 1 April 2018
St.-Maurusweg 23
3300 Tienen
Active since 1 April 2018
Wingepark 3
3110 Rotselaar
Active since 1 September 2018
Noorderlaan 34-36
2060 Antwerpen
Active since 1 February 2026
Pierre Van den Eedenstraat 100
2660 Antwerpen
Active since 12 September 2022
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0400.824.586
- VAT number
- BE 0400.824.586
- Registered office
- Brusselsesteenweg 460, 2800 Mechelen
- Names & denominations
- Autoveiligheid
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 14 December 1949
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 17 Sept 2025
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