Warning lights
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 59.6 to 50.
Financials
Financial year 2025
CHARLIER - BRABO GROUP from Aartselaar, company number BE0404625305, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 490,729 after tax. For that financial year CHARLIER - BRABO GROUP recorded revenue of € 63.6 million and equity of € 25.8 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 599,583 to € 490,729. 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 July 31, 2026.
€ 25.8 million
▲ 1% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 490,729
▼ 18% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 5.1 million
▼ 5% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 252,788 paid out
52 % of the profit went to the shareholders, the rest stayed in the company.
People and assets in 2025
50
▼ 4.8 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 5.1 million
▼ 6% vs 2024
€ 102,400 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.
€ 51,915
▼ 40% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 2.7 million
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 9.3 million
▲ 20% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 58 days on average.
€ 1 million
▲ 24% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2021 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 63,738,570 | € 69,939,473 | € 67,497,053 | € 63,556,444 | ▼ 6% |
| Profit after taxes | € 1,233,978 | € 1,330,112 | € 599,583 | € 490,729 | ▼ 18% |
| Equity | € 23,050,684 | € 25,257,950 | € 25,605,571 | € 25,843,512 | ▲ 1% |
| Total debts | € 14,789,003 | € 15,819,527 | € 11,375,345 | € 13,192,330 | ▲ 16% |
| Cash | € 1,918,673 | € 4,173,180 | € 5,415,904 | € 5,142,023 | ▼ 5% |
| Retained profit | € 20,455,310 | € 22,662,576 | € 23,010,197 | € 23,248,138 | ▲ 1% |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 0 | € 251,962 | € 252,788 | |
| Bank debt | € 3,609,577 | € 6,400,000 | € 2,700,000 | € 2,700,000 | |
| Balance sheet total | € 37,839,686 | € 41,077,477 | € 36,980,916 | € 39,035,842 | ▲ 6% |
| Employees (FTE) | 58.5 | 59.6 | 54.8 | 50 | ▼ 4.8 |
Key figures of CHARLIER - BRABO GROUP, fiscal years 2021 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 CHARLIER - BRABO GROUP?
What happened at CHARLIER - BRABO GROUP in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- FINAKUS BV stepped down as director. NBB
- ANIT BV stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 490,729 (▼ 18% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Timeco BV stepped down as director. NBB
- G.G NV stepped down as director. NBB
- Lucas Huyghe stepped down as director. NBB
- Paul Merlevede stepped down as director. NBB
- FINAKUS BV became a director. NBB
In short
From € 1.2 million profit in 2021 to € 490,729 profit in 2025.
Paid € 1.3 million in corporate taxes since 2021.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 1.3 million profit.
Paid out € 504,750 in dividends to the owners in total.
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What was left
€ 20 k ▼ 91%
Money in the bank
€ 178 k ▼ 98%
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Management
The stake of I.S.T. INTERNATIONALE SPEDITION UND TRANSPORT comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
CHARLIER - BRABO GROUPThe shares are held by I.S.T. INTERNATIONALE SPEDITION UND TRANSPORT (36%). It owns 100% of TOY VEND PLC and 100% of ELVEA S.p.A itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
since 2022 · until 2026
Paul Merlevede
Director
since 2023 · until 2025
Managing director · represented by Raymond Charlier
since 2020 · until 2026
Director · represented by Liesbeth Hessels
since 2024 · until 2030
Lucas Huyghe
Director
since 2023 · until 2025
since 2024 · until 2030
Shareholders
Participations
TOY VEND PLC
100%
ELVEA S.p.A
100%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Boomsesteenweg 28
2630 Aartselaar
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Details
- Company number
- 0404.625.305
- VAT number
- BE 0404.625.305
- Registered office
- Boomsesteenweg 28, 2630 Aartselaar
- Names & denominations
- CHARLIER - BRABO GROUP · C.B.G. · CHABRA
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 1 April 1953
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 18 Mar 2025
- Contact
- cbg.be
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