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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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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 4.4 to 1.4.
Financials
Financial year 2025
LEROU IJZERWAREN from Jabbeke, company number BE0414319167, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -69,612 after tax. For that financial year LEROU IJZERWAREN recorded a gross margin of € 37,160 and equity of € 2.4 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -43,118 to € -69,612. 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 July 13, 2026.
€ 2.4 million
▼ 3% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -69,612
▼ 61 % more loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 290,140
▼ 19% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 1.5 million.
People and assets in 2025
1.4
▼ 0.7 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 2,419
▼ 52% vs 2024
€ 1,700 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.
€ 815
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 1.8 million
▼ 8% vs 2024
€ 45,007 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 41 years.
€ 9,419
▼ 95% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 33
▼ 99% vs 2024
Corporate tax and VAT still to pay. No wage debt: nothing outstanding to staff or social security.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 137,897 | € 194,954 | € 11,077 | € 37,160 | ▲ 235% |
| Profit after taxes | € -15,341 | € -26,738 | € -43,118 | € -69,612 | ▼ € 26,494 |
| Equity | € 2,570,992 | € 2,544,254 | € 2,501,136 | € 2,431,523 | ▼ 3% |
| Total debts | € 1,378,805 | € 1,211,450 | € 2,193,620 | € 1,862,847 | ▼ 15% |
| Cash | € 499,127 | € 697,231 | € 360,050 | € 290,140 | ▼ 19% |
| Land & buildings | € 1,844,162 | € 1,768,606 | € 3,698,084 | € 3,420,254 | ▼ 8% |
| Retained profit | € 1,677,488 | € 1,650,750 | € 1,607,632 | € 1,538,020 | ▼ 4% |
| Bank debt | € 963,868 | € 926,016 | € 1,992,226 | € 1,836,581 | ▼ 8% |
| Balance sheet total | € 4,540,303 | € 4,337,292 | € 5,267,074 | € 4,819,468 | ▼ 8% |
| Employees (FTE) | 5.1 | 4.4 | 2.1 | 1.4 | ▼ 0.7 |
Key figures of LEROU IJZERWAREN, 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 LEROU IJZERWAREN?
What happened at LEROU IJZERWAREN in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Patrick Van Gelder stepped down as director. NBB
- Lerou Holding stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 69,612. Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Jabbeke. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 15,341 loss in 2022 to € 69,612 loss in 2025.
Paid € 33,089 in corporate taxes since 2022.
On average € 26,500 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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Management
The stake of LEROU HOLDING comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
LEROU IJZERWARENThe shares are held by LEROU HOLDING (99.8%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Patrick Van Gelder
Director
· until 2029
Director · represented by Lerou David
· until 2029
Shareholders
99.8%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Marienhovedreef 3
8490 Jabbeke
Vlamingveld 19 box D
8490 Jabbeke
Active since 1 October 2023
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 1 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0414.319.167
- VAT number
- BE 0414.319.167
- Registered office
- Marienhovedreef 3, 8490 Jabbeke
- Names & denominations
- LEROU IJZERWAREN
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 19 June 1974
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 19 Dec 2025
- Activities · NACE
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