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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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2025 and 2026.
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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 25 % of short-term debt in 2026; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2026
FARAM from Wevelgem, company number BE0405338551, closed financial year 2026 with a result of € -120,146 after tax. For that financial year FARAM recorded a gross margin of € 404,053 and equity of € 319,783. Compared with financial year 2025, the result moved from € -166,358 to € -120,146. The company made a loss. The company holds a healthy buffer. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on September 30, 2026.
€ 319,783
▼ 33% vs 2025
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -120,146
▲ 28 % less loss than in 2025
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 173,218
▼ 32% vs 2025
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 99,783.
People and assets in 2026
4.8
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 319,757
▲ 2% vs 2025
€ 66,600 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.
€ 25,121
▼ 43% vs 2025
Of which on lease € 24,457.
Debts at end 2026
€ 2 million
▼ 16% vs 2025
€ 1.2 million is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 1 years.
€ 37,107
▲ 4% vs 2025
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 15,252
▲ 19% vs 2025
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | Change 2025 → 2026 | |
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| Gross margin | € 365,772 | € 469,324 | € 423,198 | € 404,053 | ▼ 5% |
| Profit after taxes | € -76,432 | € 2,262 | € -166,358 | € -120,146 | ▲ € 46,212 |
| Equity | € 642,773 | € 645,035 | € 478,676 | € 319,783 | ▼ 33% |
| Total debts | € 3,232,918 | € 2,659,213 | € 2,873,299 | € 2,705,180 | ▼ 6% |
| Cash | € 875,355 | € 91,705 | € 256,441 | € 173,218 | ▼ 32% |
| Land & buildings | € 1,085,851 | € 1,000,325 | € 914,799 | € 829,384 | ▼ 9% |
| Retained profit | € 422,773 | € 425,035 | € 258,676 | € 99,783 | ▼ 61% |
| Dividend | € 700,000 | € 0 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Bank debt | € 2,452,921 | € 2,290,442 | € 2,324,666 | € 1,952,822 | ▼ 16% |
| Balance sheet total | € 3,875,691 | € 3,304,247 | € 3,351,975 | € 3,024,964 | ▼ 10% |
| Employees (FTE) | 5.3 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.8 |
Key figures of FARAM, fiscal years 2023 to 2026, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2027) expected before 31 October 2027.
What happened to FARAM?
What happened at FARAM in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2026: loss of € 120,146. Source: NBB ↗
- VANCAF BV became a director. NBB
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
- New establishment in Wevelgem. KBO
In short
From € 76,432 loss in 2023 to € 120,146 loss in 2026.
Paid € 84 in corporate taxes since 2023.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 2,262 profit.
On average € 84,200 of value added per employee in 2026.
Management
The stake of VANCAF comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
FARAMBehind FARAM is VANCAF BV. The shares are held by VANCAF (100%).
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Kouterstraat 9
8560 Wevelgem
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Website
Technologies
Hosting & Email
Email provider
Microsoft 365
Hosting
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Website info
Features
Security
Details
- Company number
- 0405.338.551
- VAT number
- BE 0405.338.551
- Registered office
- Kouterstraat 9, 8560 Wevelgem
- Names & denominations
- FARAM
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 12 August 1958
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 25 Nov 2024
- Contact
- faram.be
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