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Figures corrected NBB
Corrected annual account filed for 2024.
Financials
Financial year 2025
GARAGE LEO JACOBS from Merksplas, company number BE0416909364, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -355,614 after tax. For that financial year GARAGE LEO JACOBS recorded a gross margin of € 1.1 million and equity of € 1.7 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 72,880 to € -355,614. The company made a loss. The buffer shrank hard: equity is 72 % below last year. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on August 17, 2026.
€ 1.7 million
▼ 72% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -355,614
▼ still € 72,880 profit in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 446,340
▼ 16% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 1.4 million.
People and assets in 2025
17
▼ 0.9 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.3 million
▲ 8% vs 2024
€ 75,300 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.
€ 88,940
▼ 7% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 27,267
▼ 78% vs 2024
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 75,042
▲ € 66,491 vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 271,570
▲ 22% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 10,521,765 | € 5,233,478 | - | - | |
| Gross margin | - | - | € 1,099,431 | € 1,085,648 | ▼ 1% |
| Profit after taxes | € 1,202,501 | € -65,511 | € 72,880 | € -355,614 | ▼ € 428,494 |
| Equity | € 7,266,111 | € 6,127,314 | € 6,200,193 | € 1,728,653 | ▼ 72% |
| Total debts | € 898,657 | € 599,110 | € 360,620 | € 436,474 | ▲ 21% |
| Cash | € 3,715,461 | € 1,453,869 | € 533,904 | € 446,340 | ▼ 16% |
| Land & buildings | € 991,819 | € 28,823 | € 20,088 | - | |
| Retained profit | € 5,967,964 | € 5,036,668 | € 5,109,548 | € 1,362,020 | ▼ 73% |
| Bank debt | € 321,567 | € 223,467 | € 125,367 | € 27,267 | ▼ 78% |
| Balance sheet total | € 8,164,768 | € 6,726,424 | € 6,560,813 | € 2,165,127 | ▼ 67% |
| Employees (FTE) | 20.7 | 16.2 | 17.9 | 17 | ▼ 0.9 |
Key figures of GARAGE LEO JACOBS, 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 GARAGE LEO JACOBS?
What happened at GARAGE LEO JACOBS in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 355,614 (▼ € 428,494 vs 2024). filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Martine Peeters became a director. NBB
- Bensoph NV became a director. NBB
- François Jacobs became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Merksplas. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 1.2 million profit in 2022 to € 355,614 loss in 2025.
Paid € 529,200 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 1.2 million profit.
On average € 63,900 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
Behind GARAGE LEO JACOBS are Bensoph NV, François Jacobs and Martine Peeters. The shares are held by Bensoph, François Jacobs and Leopold Jacobs.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Leopold Jacobs
since 2000
since 1991
Martine Peeters
Director
since 2007
Shareholders
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Steenweg op Turnhout 109
2330 Merksplas
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
- 0416.909.364
- VAT number
- BE 0416.909.364
- Registered office
- Steenweg op Turnhout 109, 2330 Merksplas
- Names & denominations
- GARAGE LEO JACOBS
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 31 January 1977
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 18 Dec 2025
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