Warning lights
Signals from the annual accounts, the CBE and the Official Gazette, each with its threshold and source. No score, no verdict.
-
Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 7.1 to 5.5.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Etablissements Léon Masquelier from La Louvière, company number BE0401772614, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 1,674 after tax. For that financial year Etablissements Léon Masquelier recorded a gross margin of € 277,044 and equity of € 3.6 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -181,484 to € 1,674. Profitable, and profit is growing. 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 July 2, 2026.
€ 3.6 million
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 1,674
▲ still € 181,484 loss in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 430,980
▲ 13% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Stays in the company
No dividend for 2025. Retained profit grew to € 3.2 million.
People and assets in 2025
5.5
▼ 1.1 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 237,475
▼ 20% vs 2024
€ 43,200 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.
€ 13,616
▼ 46% 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.
€ 404,609
▼ 1% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 48,685
▲ 12% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 1,692,940 | € 852,013 | € 248,725 | € 277,044 | ▲ 11% |
| Profit after taxes | € 924,150 | € 302,532 | € -181,484 | € 1,674 | ▲ € 183,158 |
| Equity | € 3,473,886 | € 3,767,769 | € 3,579,666 | € 3,578,785 | |
| Total debts | € 473,397 | € 540,038 | € 481,933 | € 453,307 | ▼ 6% |
| Cash | € 1,445,228 | € 1,232,779 | € 380,791 | € 430,980 | ▲ 13% |
| Land & buildings | € 219,736 | € 135,007 | € 78,572 | € 59,938 | ▼ 24% |
| Retained profit | € 3,067,219 | € 3,369,751 | € 3,188,267 | € 3,189,941 | |
| Bank debt | € 111,114 | € 71,027 | € 30,578 | € 0 | ▼ 100% |
| Balance sheet total | € 3,947,284 | € 4,307,807 | € 4,061,600 | € 4,032,092 | ▼ 1% |
| Employees (FTE) | 7.8 | 7.1 | 6.6 | 5.5 | ▼ 1.1 |
Key figures of Etablissements Léon Masquelier, 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 Etablissements Léon Masquelier?
What happened at Etablissements Léon Masquelier in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- LYMVEST SRL stepped down as director. NBB
- FLY CAB SRL stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 1,674. Source: NBB ↗
- LYMVEST SRL became a director. NBB
- FLY CAB SRL became a director. NBB
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
- New establishment in La Louvière. KBO
In short
From € 924,150 profit in 2022 to € 1,674 profit in 2025.
Paid € 408,651 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 924,150 profit.
On average € 50,400 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of LYMVEST, Fly-Cab comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
Etablissements Léon MasquelierThe shares are held by LYMVEST (75%) and Fly-Cab (25%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by MASKENS Léon
Also active at: Etablissements Edouard Verset, Ateliers de Transformation de Produits métalliques du Condroz, Etablissements Leloux - Laurent, SOCACIER, GREGOIRE, SOCAGEST, SOCAGIM, VMC Metal Services
since 2021 · until 2027
Director · represented by CASSART Paul Emile
Also active at: SOCACIER, VMC Metal Services
since 2021 · until 2027
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Rue de la Croix du Maïeur(S-B) 26
7110 La Louvière
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0401.772.614
- VAT number
- BE 0401.772.614
- Registered office
- Rue de la Croix du Maïeur(S-B) 26, 7110 La Louvière
- Names & denominations
- Etablissements Léon Masquelier
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 1 January 1968
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 29 Sept 2025
- Activities · NACE
Groothandel in metalen en metaalertsen