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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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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 60 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Figures corrected NBB
Corrected annual account filed for 2025.
Financials
Financial year 2025
De Smet Brussels from Halle, company number BE0414667674, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 243,381 after tax. For that financial year De Smet Brussels recorded revenue of € 51.3 million and equity of € 2.5 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 204,540 to € 243,381. Profitable, and profit is growing. The buffer is growing. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on August 31, 2026.
€ 2.5 million
▲ 11% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 243,381
▲ 19% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 359,076
▲ 211% 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 € 1.5 million.
People and assets in 2025
45.3
▼ 1.7 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 3.2 million
▼ 3% vs 2024
€ 70,800 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.
€ 38,869
▲ 44% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 4.3 million
▼ 10% vs 2024
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 8.2 million
▲ 8% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 59 days on average.
€ 552,221
▼ 9% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Revenue | € 40,924,296 | € 65,852,768 | € 70,144,577 | € 51,344,367 | ▼ 27% |
| Profit after taxes | € -165,679 | € 746,053 | € 204,540 | € 243,381 | ▲ 19% |
| Equity | € 893,461 | € 2,077,513 | € 2,282,053 | € 2,525,434 | ▲ 11% |
| Total debts | € 16,069,398 | € 28,241,560 | € 16,380,679 | € 13,833,149 | ▼ 16% |
| Cash | € 725,472 | € 2,486,472 | € 115,584 | € 359,076 | ▲ 211% |
| Retained profit | € 831,461 | € 1,077,513 | € 1,282,053 | € 1,525,434 | ▲ 19% |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 500,000 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Bank debt | € 5,451,925 | € 5,702,118 | € 4,792,889 | € 4,300,425 | ▼ 10% |
| Balance sheet total | € 16,962,859 | € 30,319,073 | € 18,662,733 | € 16,358,584 | ▼ 12% |
| Employees (FTE) | 38.5 | 44.7 | 47 | 45.3 | ▼ 1.7 |
Key figures of De Smet Brussels, 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 De Smet Brussels?
What happened at De Smet Brussels in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Caride Consult BV stepped down as director. NBB
- RPM Consult BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Corrected annual accounts filed for financial year 2025. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Dilbeek. KBO
- Caride Consult BV became a director. NBB
- RPM Consult BV became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Drogenbos. KBO
- New establishment in Asse. KBO
In short
From € 165,679 loss in 2022 to € 243,381 profit in 2025.
Paid € 511,027 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 746,053 profit.
Paid out € 500,000 in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
The stake of De Smet Brussels Automotive comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
De Smet BrusselsThe shares are held by De Smet Brussels Automotive (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Ilse Demol
Also active at: Carrosserie Sterckx, RETAIL PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT CONSULTING, Sterckx - De Smet Brussels, Sterckx Motors, STERCKX, De Smet Brussels Automotive
since 2021 · until 2027
bestuurder · represented by Philip Vandewalle
Also active at: Carrosserie Sterckx, Sterckx - De Smet Brussels, Sterckx Motors, STERCKX, De Smet Brussels Automotive, Landyachting Europe, PREMIUM LEASE
since 2021 · until 2027
Shareholders
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Brusselsesteenweg 480
1500 Halle
Brusselsesteenweg 605
1731 Asse
Active since 1 January 1975
Grote Baan 330
1620 Drogenbos
Active since 1 April 2020
Ninoofsesteenweg 681
1700 Dilbeek
Active since 14 December 2021
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 8 companies are registered at this address.
All companies at this address →Carrosserie Sterckx same network
€ 464,922 gross margin · 2025
RETAIL PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT CONSULTING same network
€ 2.1 million gross margin · 2025
Sterckx - De Smet Brussels same network
€ 12.7 million revenue · 2025
Sterckx Motors same network
€ -85,727 gross margin · 2025
STERCKX GROEP
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What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0414.667.674
- VAT number
- BE 0414.667.674
- Registered office
- Brusselsesteenweg 480, 1500 Halle
- Names & denominations
- De Smet Brussels
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 16 November 1974
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 27 Mar 2026
- Activities · NACE
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