Warning lights
Signals from the annual accounts, the CBE and the Official Gazette, each with its threshold and source. No score, no verdict.
-
Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 35 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
BROOKLYN - GENT from Harelbeke, company number BE0420705925, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 266,244 after tax. For that financial year BROOKLYN - GENT recorded a gross margin of € 1.9 million and equity of € 402,290. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 104,176 to € 266,244. 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 August 31, 2026.
€ 402,290
▲ 196% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 266,244
▲ 156% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 213,079
▲ 12% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Stays in the company
No dividend for 2025. Retained profit grew to € 272,290.
People and assets in 2025
29.5
▼ 1 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.5 million
▲ 3% vs 2024
€ 50,200 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
€ 491,335
▲ 230% vs 2024
€ 86,338 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 4 years.
€ 692,987
▼ 25% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 323,398
▲ 7% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 1,430,510 | € 1,617,627 | € 1,774,934 | € 1,936,502 | ▲ 9% |
| Profit after taxes | € -54,891 | € 571 | € 104,176 | € 266,244 | ▲ 156% |
| Equity | € 31,299 | € 31,870 | € 136,046 | € 402,290 | ▲ 196% |
| Total debts | € 1,916,266 | € 1,914,149 | € 1,439,058 | € 1,571,456 | ▲ 9% |
| Cash | € 267,641 | € 147,813 | € 189,783 | € 213,079 | ▲ 12% |
| Land & buildings | € 561,821 | € 360,746 | € 154,872 | € 395,366 | ▲ 155% |
| Retained profit | € -98,701 | € -98,130 | € 6,046 | € 272,290 | ▲ € 266,244 |
| Bank debt | € 666,780 | € 558,573 | € 149,053 | € 491,335 | ▲ 230% |
| Balance sheet total | € 1,947,564 | € 1,946,019 | € 1,575,104 | € 1,973,746 | ▲ 25% |
| Employees (FTE) | 28.5 | 28.6 | 30.5 | 29.5 | ▼ 1 |
Key figures of BROOKLYN - GENT, 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 BROOKLYN - GENT?
What happened at BROOKLYN - GENT in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Chloé Van Gele stepped down as director. NBB
- Ubbe Descamps stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 266,244 (▲ 156% vs 2024). filed late Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Nieuwpoort. KBO
- Chloé Van Gele became a director. NBB
- Ubbe Descamps became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Knokke-Heist. KBO
- New establishment in Waregem. KBO
In short
From € 54,891 loss in 2022 to € 266,244 profit in 2025.
Paid € 526 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 266,244 profit.
On average € 65,600 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of ACADIA comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
BROOKLYN - GENTThe shares are held by ACADIA (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Shareholders
100%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Politieke Gevangenenstraat 34
8530 Harelbeke
Lippenslaan 186
8300 Knokke-Heist
Active since 13 April 1989
Veldstraat 40
9000 Gent
Active since 19 September 1980
Stormestraat 88
8790 Waregem
Active since 1 October 1984
Albert I laan 247 box 1
8620 Nieuwpoort
Active since 1 April 2025
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 3 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.
Website
Technologies
Hosting & Email
Email provider
Self-hosted
Hosting
COMBELL-AS, BE
Website info
Features
Security
Details
- Company number
- 0420.705.925
- VAT number
- BE 0420.705.925
- Registered office
- Politieke Gevangenenstraat 34, 8530 Harelbeke
- Names & denominations
- BROOKLYN - GENT
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 19 August 1980
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 6 Mar 2025
- Contact
- brooklyn.be 056218024
- Activities · NACE
Detailhandel in dames-, heren-, baby- en kinderboven- en onderkleding en kledingaccessoires (algemeen assortiment)
Detailhandel in bovenkleding voor heren, dames en kinderen (algemeen assortiment)
Detailhandel in herenbovenkleding