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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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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 12 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Not registered in the Peppol network, mandatory for VAT-liable companies since 1 January 2026.
Financials
Financial year 2025
J. Knaepen et fils from Halle, company number BE0408364852, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -46,757 after tax. For that financial year J. Knaepen et fils recorded a gross margin of € -10,396 and equity of € 1.3 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -30,484 to € -46,757. 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 May 8, 2026.
€ 1.3 million
▼ 3% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -46,757
▼ 53 % more loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 41,854
▼ 37% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 1.3 million.
People and assets in 2025
€ 1,936
▼ 24% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 400,460
▼ 2% vs 2024
€ 6,415 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 62 years.
€ 279,187
▲ € 277,978 vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € -13,810 | € 1,989,322 | € -16,746 | € -10,396 | ▲ € 6,350 |
| Profit after taxes | € -23,845 | € 1,481,446 | € -30,484 | € -46,757 | ▼ € 16,273 |
| Equity | € -64,983 | € 1,416,463 | € 1,385,978 | € 1,339,221 | ▼ 3% |
| Total debts | € 862,638 | € 783,723 | € 1,051,801 | € 1,341,533 | ▲ 28% |
| Cash | € 2,802 | € 33,848 | € 66,867 | € 41,854 | ▼ 37% |
| Land & buildings | € 231,266 | € 946,933 | € 936,735 | € 2,565,735 | ▲ 174% |
| Retained profit | € -151,783 | € 1,329,663 | € 1,299,178 | € 1,252,421 | ▼ 4% |
| Bank debt | € 0 | € 146,476 | € 406,739 | € 400,460 | ▼ 2% |
| Balance sheet total | € 797,655 | € 2,702,427 | € 2,937,246 | € 3,174,826 | ▲ 8% |
Key figures of J. Knaepen et fils, fiscal years 2022 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2026) expected before 30 April 2027.
What happened to J. Knaepen et fils?
What happened at J. Knaepen et fils in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 46,757. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Halle. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 23,845 loss in 2022 to € 46,757 loss in 2025.
Paid € 1,603 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 1.5 million profit.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Eikenlaan 25
1500 Halle
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0408.364.852
- VAT number
- BE 0408.364.852
- Registered office
- Eikenlaan 25, 1500 Halle
- Names & denominations
- J. Knaepen et fils
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 14 June 1971
- Peppol
- Not registered