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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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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2024 and 2025.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 83.5 to 74.4.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Verviers Freins from Verviers, company number BE0402308488, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -605,762 after tax. For that financial year Verviers Freins recorded revenue of € 15.2 million and equity of € 9.2 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -1.1 million to € -605,762. 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 July 1, 2026.
€ 9.2 million
▼ 6% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -605,762
▲ 44 % less loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 170,800
▲ 4% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 8.6 million.
People and assets in 2025
74.4
▼ 6.3 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 4.2 million
▼ 3% vs 2024
€ 56,800 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.
€ 185,623
▼ 33% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 681,279
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 3.1 million
▼ 22% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 96 days on average.
€ 795,506
▼ 24% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Revenue | € 17,326,030 | € 17,741,195 | € 16,329,105 | € 15,183,507 | ▼ 7% |
| Profit after taxes | € 142,687 | € -1,267,441 | € -1,091,174 | € -605,762 | ▲ € 485,413 |
| Equity | € 12,134,319 | € 10,866,877 | € 9,775,703 | € 9,169,941 | ▼ 6% |
| Total debts | € 3,356,118 | € 4,869,652 | € 5,047,388 | € 4,620,081 | ▼ 8% |
| Cash | € 772,705 | € 1,025,552 | € 164,319 | € 170,800 | ▲ 4% |
| Retained profit | € 11,534,319 | € 10,266,877 | € 9,175,703 | € 8,569,941 | ▼ 7% |
| Bank debt | € 0 | € 0 | € 0 | € 681,279 | |
| Balance sheet total | € 15,490,437 | € 15,736,529 | € 14,823,091 | € 13,790,022 | ▼ 7% |
| Employees (FTE) | 81.9 | 83.5 | 80.7 | 74.4 | ▼ 6.3 |
Key figures of Verviers Freins, 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 Verviers Freins?
What happened at Verviers Freins in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 605,762. Source: NBB ↗
- Patrice ASTOR stepped down as director. NBB
- SRL PARTNERINFINANCE stepped down as director. NBB
- Patrice ASTOR became a director. NBB
- SRL PARTNERINFINANCE became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Sankt Vith. KBO
- New establishment in Soumagne. KBO
- New establishment in Wanze. KBO
In short
From € 142,687 profit in 2022 to € 605,762 loss in 2025.
Paid € 175,702 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 142,687 profit.
Pays suppliers within 96 days on average.
Management
The stake of DOYEN AUTO comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
Verviers FreinsThe shares are held by DOYEN AUTO (80%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Patrice ASTOR
Director
since 2024 · until 2026
Director · represented by Myriam COHEN-KANNAERTS
Also active at: PARTENAIRES PRODUITS & SERVICES, AUTODISTRIBUTION BELUX, DOYEN AUTO BELGIUM
since 2024 · until 2026
Shareholders
80%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Rue Lejeune 50
4800 Verviers
Avenue de l'Expansion 14
4432 Ans
Active since 12 September 1996
Rue Lejeune 50 5
4800 Verviers
Active since 26 October 1967
Pont de Warche 2
4960 Malmedy
Active since 26 October 1967
Industriestrasse 7
4700 Eupen
Active since 26 October 1967
Voie de l'Air Pur 269
4052 Chaudfontaine
Active since 1 March 1999
Chaussée de Tirlemont(WAN) 91
4520 Wanze
Active since 1 January 2002
Friedensstrasse 10
4780 Sankt Vith
Active since 1 August 2009
Avenue de la Résistance 5
4630 Soumagne
Active since 1 August 2009
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0402.308.488
- VAT number
- BE 0402.308.488
- Registered office
- Rue Lejeune 50, 4800 Verviers
- Names & denominations
- Verviers Freins
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 26 October 1967
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 1 Jan 2001
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