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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Negative equity NBB
More debt than assets in 3 of the last 4 fiscal years.
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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 56 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Busy address KBO
24 other companies have their registered office at the same address; threshold 10.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Transport Mertens from Antwerpen, company number BE0412432914, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -40,315 after tax. For that financial year Transport Mertens recorded a gross margin of € 968,791 and equity of € -63,859. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 1,934 to € -40,315. The company made a loss. More debts than assets. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on August 24, 2026.
€ -63,859
▼ € 40,315 vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -40,315
▼ still € 1,934 profit in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 65,373
▼ 6% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -82,459.
People and assets in 2025
14.1
▲ 1.8 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1 million
▲ 13% vs 2024
€ 71,300 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.
Debts at end 2025
None
No bank loans on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 77,116
▲ 243% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 98,117
▼ 4% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 825,349 | € 780,045 | € 903,315 | € 968,791 | ▲ 7% |
| Profit after taxes | € -13,658 | € -71,976 | € 1,934 | € -40,315 | ▼ € 42,249 |
| Equity | € 46,498 | € -25,478 | € -23,544 | € -63,859 | ▼ € 40,315 |
| Total debts | € 155,476 | € 134,033 | € 128,806 | € 179,103 | ▲ 39% |
| Cash | € 149,050 | € 70,111 | € 69,340 | € 65,373 | ▼ 6% |
| Retained profit | € 27,898 | € -44,078 | € -42,144 | € -82,459 | ▼ € 40,315 |
| Balance sheet total | € 201,974 | € 108,555 | € 105,262 | € 115,244 | ▲ 9% |
| Employees (FTE) | 12.5 | 11.3 | 12.3 | 14.1 | ▲ 1.8 |
Key figures of Transport Mertens, 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 Transport Mertens?
What happened at Transport Mertens in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 40,315 (▼ € 42,249 vs 2024). filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Gino Van Leuven became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Antwerpen. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 13,658 loss in 2022 to € 40,315 loss in 2025.
Paid € 52 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 1,934 profit.
On average € 68,700 of value added per employee in 2025.
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De Lijn 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025
filed on 8 June 2026
What was left
€ 20 k ▼ 91%
Money in the bank
€ 178 k ▼ 98%
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NMBS 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left ▼ 80%
bpost 18 May 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left from loss to profit
Management
The stake of OLÜMPIA VENTURES comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
Transport MertensBehind Transport Mertens is Gino Van Leuven. The shares are held by OLÜMPIA VENTURES (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
since 2020
Shareholders
100%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Dascottelei 11
2100 Antwerpen
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Details
- Company number
- 0412.432.914
- VAT number
- BE 0412.432.914
- Registered office
- Dascottelei 11, 2100 Antwerpen
- Names & denominations
- Transport Mertens
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 9 May 1972
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 20 Nov 2025
- Activities · NACE
Goederenvervoer over de weg
Overige reiniging van gebouwen; industriële reiniging
Industriële reiniging