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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 11 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 14.4 to 9.8.
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Board fully replaced NBB
No director from three years ago is still active according to annual account 2025.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Autovak from Kontich, company number BE0417484733, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -590,869 after tax. For that financial year Autovak recorded revenue of € 2.9 million and equity of € -3.2 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -817,516 to € -590,869. 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 June 29, 2026.
€ -3.2 million
▼ € 590,869 vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -590,869
▲ 28 % less loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 12,160
▲ 36% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -3.3 million.
People and assets in 2025
9.8
▼ 3.8 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 687,172
▼ 31% vs 2024
€ 70,100 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.
€ 11,345
▼ 31% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 4.6 million
▲ 17% vs 2024
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 434,805
▲ 20% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 97,472
▲ 8% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Revenue | - | - | - | € 2,929,892 | |
| Gross margin | € 389,715 | € 215,814 | € 418,943 | € 89,256 | ▼ 79% |
| Profit after taxes | € -794,141 | € -939,311 | € -817,516 | € -590,869 | ▲ € 226,647 |
| Equity | € -890,358 | € -1,829,669 | € -2,647,185 | € -3,238,054 | ▼ € 590,869 |
| Total debts | € 3,228,571 | € 4,087,314 | € 4,433,128 | € 5,176,723 | ▲ 17% |
| Cash | € 123,968 | € 28,305 | € 8,934 | € 12,160 | ▲ 36% |
| Retained profit | € -952,331 | € -1,891,642 | € -2,709,158 | € -3,300,028 | ▼ € 590,869 |
| Bank debt | € 2,537,337 | € 3,367,010 | € 3,958,944 | € 4,633,719 | ▲ 17% |
| Balance sheet total | € 2,338,213 | € 2,257,645 | € 1,785,943 | € 1,938,668 | ▲ 9% |
| Employees (FTE) | 15.3 | 14.4 | 13.6 | 9.8 | ▼ 3.8 |
Key figures of Autovak, 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 Autovak?
What happened at Autovak in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 590,869. Source: NBB ↗
- DOYEN AUTO became a director. NBB
- Patrice Astor stepped down as director. NBB
- Jeremy De Brabant stepped down as director. NBB
- Patrice Astor became a director. NBB
- Jeremy De Brabant became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Kontich. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 794,141 loss in 2022 to € 590,869 loss in 2025.
Paid € 3,296 in corporate taxes since 2022.
On average € 9,100 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of DOYEN AUTO, AD-AUTOPARTS comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
AutovakBehind Autovak is DOYEN AUTO. The shares are held by DOYEN AUTO (100%) and AD-AUTOPARTS.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Administrator-manager · represented by Patrice Astor
Also active at: THIJSEN AUTOPARTS ALKEN, AUTOLUX, THIJSEN AUTOPARTS HQ, AUTOFIX, BAD OPERATIONS
since 2026
Patrice Astor
Managing director
Also active at: AUTODISTRIBUTION BELUX, AD-AUTOPARTS, DOYEN AUTO BELGIUM
since 2020 · until 2026
since 2020 · until 2026
Shareholders
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
De Villermontstraat 30
2550 Kontich
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0417.484.733
- VAT number
- BE 0417.484.733
- Registered office
- De Villermontstraat 30, 2550 Kontich
- Names & denominations
- Autovak
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 15 September 1977
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 1 Jan 2001
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