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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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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 13.5 to 11.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Gaba from Lier, company number BE0411557142, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 178,923 after tax. For that financial year Gaba recorded a gross margin of € 798,538 and equity of € 1.3 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 119,595 to € 178,923. Profitable, and profit is growing. 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 November 28, 2025.
€ 1.3 million
▲ 15% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 178,923
▲ 50% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 371,027
▲ 45% 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 € 1.3 million.
People and assets in 2025
11
▼ 2.3 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 454,751
▼ 8% vs 2024
€ 41,300 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.
€ 2,794
▼ 52% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 125,046
▲ 27% vs 2024
€ 80,900 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 2 years.
€ 138,183
▲ 16% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 93,363
▲ 25% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 677,129 | € 755,729 | € 775,372 | € 798,538 | ▲ 3% |
| Profit after taxes | € 129,604 | € 131,683 | € 119,595 | € 178,923 | ▲ 50% |
| Equity | € 1,317,261 | € 1,248,944 | € 1,168,538 | € 1,347,461 | ▲ 15% |
| Total debts | € 737,230 | € 693,230 | € 945,732 | € 803,174 | ▼ 15% |
| Cash | € 488,959 | € 377,261 | € 255,392 | € 371,027 | ▲ 45% |
| Land & buildings | € 120,932 | € 105,026 | € 93,286 | € 83,849 | ▼ 10% |
| Retained profit | € 1,255,287 | € 1,186,970 | € 1,106,565 | € 1,285,488 | ▲ 16% |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 200,000 | € 200,000 | € 0 | ▼ 100% |
| Bank debt | € 160,930 | € 123,812 | € 98,412 | € 125,046 | ▲ 27% |
| Balance sheet total | € 2,054,491 | € 1,942,174 | € 2,114,271 | € 2,150,635 | ▲ 2% |
| Employees (FTE) | 11.3 | 13.5 | 13.3 | 11 | ▼ 2.3 |
Key figures of Gaba, 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 October 2026.
What happened to Gaba?
What happened at Gaba in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Yves Hoeck stepped down as director. NBB
- Arcy BVBA stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 178,923 (▲ 50% vs 2024). filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Yves Hoeck became a director. NBB
- Arcy BVBA became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Lier. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 129,604 profit in 2022 to € 178,923 profit in 2025.
Paid € 236,083 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 178,923 profit.
On average € 72,600 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of ARCY comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
GabaThe shares are held by ARCY (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Shareholders
100%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Mechelsesteenweg 106B
2500 Lier
Mechelsesteenweg 106 B
2500 Lier
Active since 1 January 1972
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0411.557.142
- VAT number
- BE 0411.557.142
- Registered office
- Mechelsesteenweg 106B, 2500 Lier
- Names & denominations
- Gaba
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 30 September 1971
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 11 Sept 2025
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