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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 54 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Figures corrected NBB
Corrected annual account filed for 2023.
Financials
Financial year 2025
VERMANT from Mechelen, company number BE0417690116, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 3.1 million after tax. For that financial year VERMANT recorded revenue of € 80.7 million and equity of € 11.9 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 5.2 million to € 3.1 million. The company is profitable. The company holds a healthy buffer. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on July 31, 2026.
€ 11.9 million
▼ 9% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 3.1 million
▼ 40% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 515,056
▼ 78% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 4.3 million paid out
More than the year’s profit went to the shareholders; reserves fell.
People and assets in 2025
57.2
▲ 3.6 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 4.2 million
▲ 19% vs 2024
€ 74,000 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.
€ 33,887
▼ 69% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 10.2 million
▼ 8% vs 2024
€ 1.4 million is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 7 years.
€ 7.6 million
▲ 18% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 36 days on average.
€ 738,995
▲ 148% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Revenue | € 52,188,160 | € 80,727,958 | € 86,454,918 | € 80,700,927 | ▼ 7% |
| Profit after taxes | € 734,890 | € 2,585,455 | € 5,177,329 | € 3,101,798 | ▼ 40% |
| Equity | € 6,736,730 | € 8,888,002 | € 13,065,331 | € 11,917,129 | ▼ 9% |
| Total debts | € 12,029,429 | € 19,034,394 | € 18,915,098 | € 23,258,892 | ▲ 23% |
| Cash | € 654,433 | € 620,608 | € 2,309,572 | € 515,056 | ▼ 78% |
| Land & buildings | € 2,708,422 | € 2,395,003 | € 2,214,491 | € 1,292,443 | ▼ 42% |
| Retained profit | € 6,486,730 | € 8,638,002 | € 12,815,331 | € 11,667,129 | ▼ 9% |
| Dividend | € 500,000 | € 434,183 | € 1,000,000 | € 4,250,000 | ▲ € 3.3 million |
| Bank debt | € 4,812,666 | € 3,642,562 | € 11,172,240 | € 10,230,692 | ▼ 8% |
| Balance sheet total | € 18,766,159 | € 27,972,821 | € 32,030,853 | € 35,226,446 | ▲ 10% |
| Employees (FTE) | 44 | 48.9 | 53.6 | 57.2 | ▲ 3.6 |
Key figures of VERMANT, 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 VERMANT?
What happened at VERMANT in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Guy Vermant stepped down as director. NBB
- Johan Van den Nieuwenhuizen stepped down as director. NBB
- T-LYX VOF stepped down as director. NBB
- R.O.L.L. Management CommV stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 3.1 million (▼ 40% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Mechelen. KBO
- Guy Vermant became a director. NBB
- Johan Van den Nieuwenhuizen became a director. NBB
In short
From € 734,890 profit in 2022 to € 3.1 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 3.5 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 5.2 million profit.
Paid out € 6.2 million in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
The stake of Guy Vermant & Co comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
VERMANTThe shares are held by Guy Vermant & Co (100%). It owns 100% of Vermant Antwerpen and 10.5% of Premium Lease itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Guy Vermant
Managing director
Also active at: Vermant Antwerpen, GARAGE POSTIAUX, Guy Vermant & Co, V-Automotive
since 2024 · until 2030
Johan Van den Nieuwenhuizen
Director
Also active at: Vermant Antwerpen, GARAGE POSTIAUX, V-Automotive
since 2024 · until 2030
Director · represented by Tim Claes
Also active at: Vermant Antwerpen, GARAGE POSTIAUX, V-Automotive
since 2024 · until 2030
Director · represented by Johannes Sterckx
Also active at: Vermant Antwerpen, V-Automotive
since 2024 · until 2030
Shareholders
100%
Participations
100%
10.5%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Antwerpsesteenweg 271
2800 Mechelen
Puursesteenweg(BOR) 380
2880 Bornem
Active since 4 August 1999
Generaal De Wittelaan 8
2800 Mechelen
Active since 1 March 2014
Generaal De Wittelaan 7 box b
2800 Mechelen
Active since 1 June 2017
Merksemsebaan 257
2110 Wijnegem
Active since 1 August 2023
Generaal De Wittelaan 10
2800 Mechelen
Active since 14 August 2024
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 2 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.
Details
- Company number
- 0417.690.116
- VAT number
- BE 0417.690.116
- Registered office
- Antwerpsesteenweg 271, 2800 Mechelen
- Names & denominations
- VERMANT
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 27 October 1977
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 21 Oct 2026
- Activities · NACE
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