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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 25 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Garage Castus from Charleroi, company number BE0418117510, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 684,687 after tax. For that financial year Garage Castus recorded a gross margin of € 3.1 million and equity of € 3 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 558,502 to € 684,687. Profitable, and profit is growing. The buffer is growing. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on July 31, 2026.
€ 3 million
▲ 3% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 684,687
▲ 23% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 74,170
▲ 10% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 600,000 paid out
88 % of the profit went to the shareholders, the rest stayed in the company.
People and assets in 2025
37.6
▲ 4.5 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.8 million
▲ 9% vs 2024
€ 47,100 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.
€ 230,629
▲ € 223,423 vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
None
No bank loans on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 4.9 million
▼ 5% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 438,850
▲ 68% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 2,118,898 | € 2,647,636 | € 2,610,689 | € 3,085,737 | ▲ 18% |
| Profit after taxes | € 598,008 | € 636,923 | € 558,502 | € 684,687 | ▲ 23% |
| Equity | € 2,480,884 | € 2,817,807 | € 2,926,309 | € 3,010,996 | ▲ 3% |
| Total debts | € 5,375,221 | € 6,493,024 | € 7,102,734 | € 6,342,922 | ▼ 11% |
| Cash | € 103,515 | € 33,706 | € 67,612 | € 74,170 | ▲ 10% |
| Retained profit | € 2,058,884 | € 2,395,807 | € 2,504,309 | € 2,588,996 | ▲ 3% |
| Dividend | € 150,000 | € 300,000 | € 450,000 | € 600,000 | ▲ 33% |
| Bank debt | € 393,929 | € 313,413 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Balance sheet total | € 7,943,290 | € 9,387,008 | € 10,094,213 | € 9,408,081 | ▼ 7% |
| Employees (FTE) | 25.5 | - | 33.1 | 37.6 | ▲ 4.5 |
Key figures of Garage Castus, 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 Castus?
What happened at Garage Castus in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- ARTHUR GAIST stepped down as director. NBB
- DAVID GAIST stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 684,687 (▲ 23% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Charleroi. KBO
- New establishment in Binche. KBO
- ARTHUR GAIST became a director. NBB
- DAVID GAIST became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Charleroi. KBO
In short
From € 598,008 profit in 2022 to € 684,687 profit in 2025.
Paid € 977,676 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 684,687 profit.
On average € 82,100 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
ARTHUR GAIST
Director
since 2021 · until 2027
since 2021 · until 2027
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Chaussée de Bruxelles 261
6042 Charleroi
Chaussée de Châtelet 68-70-72
6042 Charleroi
Active since 13 June 2002
Route de Mons(WAU) 245
7131 Binche
Active since 1 January 2022
Chaussée de Bruxelles 261A
6042 Charleroi
Active since 22 August 2022
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
OVH, FR
DNS
OVH DNS
Domain
Domain
groupegca.com
Registered
2003-09-03
Registrar
OVH, SAS
Expires
2026-09-03
Website info
Features
Security
Details
- Company number
- 0418.117.510
- VAT number
- BE 0418.117.510
- Registered office
- Chaussée de Bruxelles 261, 6042 Charleroi
- Names & denominations
- Garage Castus
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 5 December 1977
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 23 Dec 2025
- Contact
- groupegca.com
- Activities · NACE
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