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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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Negative equity NBB
More debt than assets in 4 of the last 4 fiscal years.
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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2024 and 2025.
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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 22 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
ETS BARBIER from La Louvière, company number BE0416888776, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -19,583 after tax. For that financial year ETS BARBIER recorded a gross margin of € 418,188 and equity of € -1.2 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -122,921 to € -19,583. 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 July 11, 2026.
€ -1.2 million
▼ € 19,583 vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -19,583
▲ 84 % less loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 149,082
▲ 123% 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
8.8
▼ 4.4 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 327,308
▼ 1% vs 2024
€ 37,200 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
€ 45,950
▼ 67% vs 2024
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 403,317
▲ 6% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 36,393
▼ 6% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 69,082 | € 186,853 | € 334,429 | € 418,188 | ▲ 25% |
| Profit after taxes | € -337,321 | € -278,085 | € -122,921 | € -19,583 | ▲ € 103,338 |
| Equity | € -800,472 | € -1,078,557 | € -1,201,479 | € -1,221,062 | ▼ € 19,583 |
| Total debts | € 1,989,273 | € 2,074,324 | € 2,015,500 | € 2,060,785 | ▲ 2% |
| Cash | € 173,507 | € 196,646 | € 66,837 | € 149,082 | ▲ 123% |
| Retained profit | € -1,062,024 | € -1,351,264 | € -1,474,186 | € -1,493,769 | ▼ € 19,583 |
| Bank debt | € 317,357 | € 226,598 | € 139,482 | € 45,950 | ▼ 67% |
| Balance sheet total | € 1,188,801 | € 995,767 | € 814,021 | € 839,723 | ▲ 3% |
| Employees (FTE) | 7 | 10.9 | 13.2 | 8.8 | ▼ 4.4 |
Key figures of ETS BARBIER, 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 ETS BARBIER?
What happened at ETS BARBIER in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 19,583. Source: NBB ↗
- DUVINDIS SRL became a director. NBB
- New establishment in La Louvière. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 337,321 loss in 2022 to € 19,583 loss in 2025.
Paid € 410 in corporate taxes since 2022.
On average € 47,500 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of DUCARDIS, DUVINDIS comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
ETS BARBIERBehind ETS BARBIER is DUVINDIS SRL. The shares are held by DUCARDIS (57%) and DUVINDIS (43%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Vincent Duchâteau
since 2015
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Rue du Roeulx(M) 5
7110 La Louvière
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0416.888.776
- VAT number
- BE 0416.888.776
- Registered office
- Rue du Roeulx(M) 5, 7110 La Louvière
- Names & denominations
- ETS BARBIER
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 16 December 1976
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 8 Dec 2025
- Activities · NACE
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