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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 62 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 5.2 to 3.7.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Garage Van Houts from Dendermonde, company number BE0421822910, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 73,956 after tax. For that financial year Garage Van Houts recorded a gross margin of € 365,547 and equity of € 1.5 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 265,311 to € 73,956. The company is profitable. The company holds a healthy buffer. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on November 6, 2025.
€ 1.5 million
▼ 13% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 73,956
▼ 72% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 272,925
▼ 25% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 313,538 paid out
More than the year’s profit went to the shareholders; reserves fell.
People and assets in 2025
3.7
▼ 0.8 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 238,012
▼ 9% vs 2024
€ 64,300 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.
€ 126,561
▲ 36% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 187,302
▼ 30% vs 2024
€ 80,272 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 2 years.
€ 116,728
▼ 42% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 34,305
▼ 42% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 586,840 | € 615,510 | € 638,154 | € 365,547 | ▼ 43% |
| Profit after taxes | € 194,799 | € 233,135 | € 265,311 | € 73,956 | ▼ 72% |
| Equity | € 1,468,313 | € 1,616,448 | € 1,781,758 | € 1,542,176 | ▼ 13% |
| Total debts | € 932,669 | € 870,035 | € 793,563 | € 825,808 | ▲ 4% |
| Cash | € 424,810 | € 384,376 | € 364,526 | € 272,925 | ▼ 25% |
| Retained profit | € 1,406,313 | € 1,554,448 | € 1,719,758 | € 1,480,176 | ▼ 14% |
| Dividend | € 85,000 | € 85,000 | € 100,000 | € 313,538 | ▲ 214% |
| Bank debt | € 428,118 | € 347,846 | € 267,574 | € 187,302 | ▼ 30% |
| Balance sheet total | € 2,400,982 | € 2,486,482 | € 2,575,322 | € 2,367,985 | ▼ 8% |
| Employees (FTE) | 5.7 | 5.2 | 4.5 | 3.7 | ▼ 0.8 |
Key figures of Garage Van Houts, fiscal years 2022 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2026) expected before 30 January 2027.
What happened to Garage Van Houts?
What happened at Garage Van Houts in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Fécel BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Dal Construct BV stepped down as director. NBB
- SO Projects BV stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 73,956 (▼ 72% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Fécel BV became a director. NBB
- SO Projects BV became a director. NBB
- Dal Construct BV became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Dendermonde. KBO
In short
From € 194,799 profit in 2022 to € 73,956 profit in 2025.
Paid € 227,922 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 265,311 profit.
On average € 98,800 of value added per employee in 2025.
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De Lijn 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025
filed on 8 June 2026
What was left
€ 20 k ▼ 91%
Money in the bank
€ 178 k ▼ 98%
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NMBS 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left ▼ 80%
bpost 18 May 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left from loss to profit
Management
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
since 2024 · until 2029
Managing director · represented by Alain VAN HOUTS
since 2013 · until 2025
since 2020 · until 2025
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Martelarenlaan (GRE) 15
9200 Dendermonde
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Details
- Company number
- 0421.822.910
- VAT number
- BE 0421.822.910
- Registered office
- Martelarenlaan (GRE) 15, 9200 Dendermonde
- Names & denominations
- Garage Van Houts
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 2 September 1981
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 27 Nov 2025
- Activities · NACE
Detailhandel in auto's en lichte bestelwagens (<= 3,5 ton)
Groothandel in auto's en lichte bestelwagens (<= 3,5 ton)
Groothandel in motorvoertuigen
Detailhandel in auto's en lichte bestelwagens (= 3,5 ton)
Groothandel in auto's en lichte bestelwagens (= 3,5 ton)
Handelsbemiddeling in de groothandel in andere specifieke goederen
Algemeen onderhoud en reparatie van auto's en lichte bestelwagens (<= 3,5 ton)
Onderhoud en reparatie van auto's
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