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Legal situation KBO
Opschorting (gerechtelijke reorganisatie) according to the CBE.
Financials
Financial year 2025
PUBLILUX from Lokeren, company number BE0416445645, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -1.2 million after tax. For that financial year PUBLILUX recorded a gross margin of € 1.3 million and equity of € 99,253. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 238,173 to € -1.2 million. The company made a loss. The buffer shrank hard: equity is 92 % below last year. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on July 20, 2026.
€ 99,253
▼ 92% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -1.2 million
▼ still € 238,173 profit in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 183,885
▼ 66% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -24,747.
People and assets in 2025
36.4
▼ 2.9 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 2.4 million
▼ 5% vs 2024
€ 64,700 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.
€ 38,615
▼ 69% vs 2024
Of which on lease € 34,008.
Debts at end 2025
€ 1.9 million
▲ 87% vs 2024
€ 49,561 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 2 years.
€ 1.4 million
▲ 165% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 375,501
▲ 107% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 9,540,856 | € 6,978,950 | - | - | |
| Gross margin | - | - | € 2,780,681 | € 1,263,699 | ▼ 55% |
| Profit after taxes | € 222,350 | € 314,850 | € 238,173 | € -1,210,860 | ▼ € 1.4 million |
| Equity | € 1,157,090 | € 1,071,940 | € 1,310,113 | € 99,253 | ▼ 92% |
| Total debts | € 3,558,037 | € 2,958,207 | € 2,229,784 | € 3,722,751 | ▲ 67% |
| Cash | € 745,597 | € 661,352 | € 546,391 | € 183,885 | ▼ 66% |
| Land & buildings | - | - | € 10,594 | € 9,519 | ▼ 10% |
| Retained profit | € 1,033,090 | € 947,940 | € 1,186,113 | € -24,747 | ▼ € 1.2 million |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 400,000 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Bank debt | € 1,606,360 | € 574,809 | € 1,020,216 | € 1,912,116 | ▲ 87% |
| Balance sheet total | € 4,971,234 | € 4,294,683 | € 3,653,054 | € 3,915,459 | ▲ 7% |
| Employees (FTE) | 38.8 | 39.4 | 39.3 | 36.4 | ▼ 2.9 |
Key figures of PUBLILUX, 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 PUBLILUX?
What happened at PUBLILUX in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Bruggeneind NV stepped down as director. NBB
- CCR Partners BV stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 1.2 million (▼ € 1.4 million vs 2024). filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Bruggeneind NV became a director. NBB
- CCR Partners BV became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Lokeren. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 222,350 profit in 2022 to € 1.2 million loss in 2025.
Paid € 452,112 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 314,850 profit.
On average € 34,700 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of THE IMAGE BUILDERS comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
PUBLILUXThe shares are held by THE IMAGE BUILDERS (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Erik Verkest
Also active at: SIGN & FACADE LIEGE, PETRUS, Sign & Facade, VERIAC, COPEL NEON, VERITAS, VERINET, SATIREV +6 more
since 2022 · until 2029
Director · represented by Marc Van Hool
Also active at: PETRUS, Sign & Facade, MANASALES, DS TEXTILE GROUP, COPEL NEON, CIM Capital, HOUBEN HOLDING, HSI +4 more
since 2025 · until 2031
Shareholders
100%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Wolfsakker 2
9160 Lokeren
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 1 companies are registered at this address.
All companies at this address →What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Website
Technologies
Hosting & Email
Email provider
Self-hosted
Hosting
HETZNER-AS, DE
Domain
Domain
publilux.be
Registered
1999-01-12
Website info
Features
Security
Details
- Company number
- 0416.445.645
- VAT number
- BE 0416.445.645
- Registered office
- Wolfsakker 2, 9160 Lokeren
- Names & denominations
- PUBLILUX
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Opschorting (gerechtelijke reorganisatie)
- Start date
- 1 October 1976
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 19 Jan 2026
- Contact
- publilux.be
- Activities · NACE
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