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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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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2025 and 2026.
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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 9 % of short-term debt in 2026; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2026
CLIPS from Asse, company number BE0422482213, closed financial year 2026 with a result of € -91,736 after tax. For that financial year CLIPS recorded a gross margin of € 2 million and equity of € 198,425. Compared with financial year 2025, the result moved from € -15,279 to € -91,736. The company made a loss. The company holds a healthy buffer. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on September 28, 2026.
€ 198,425
▼ 32% vs 2025
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -91,736
▼ 500 % more loss than in 2025
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 0
▼ 100% vs 2025
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -558,916.
People and assets in 2026
28.7
▼ 1.5 vs 2025
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.6 million
▼ 7% vs 2025
€ 57,200 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.
€ 91,044
▲ 20% vs 2025
Of which on lease € 13,798.
Debts at end 2026
€ 1.8 million
▲ 1% vs 2025
€ 121,366 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 4 years.
€ 745,218
▼ 20% vs 2025
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 515,953
▲ 3% vs 2025
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | Change 2025 → 2026 | |
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| Gross margin | € 1,915,355 | € 2,101,357 | € 2,159,499 | € 1,986,441 | ▼ 8% |
| Profit after taxes | € -227,285 | € 20,442 | € -15,279 | € -91,736 | ▼ € 76,458 |
| Equity | € 284,998 | € 305,440 | € 290,162 | € 198,425 | ▼ 32% |
| Total debts | € 3,236,373 | € 2,985,111 | € 3,281,319 | € 3,164,815 | ▼ 4% |
| Cash | € 47,212 | € 41,275 | € 37,373 | € 0 | ▼ 100% |
| Retained profit | € -472,343 | € -451,901 | € -467,180 | € -558,916 | ▼ € 91,736 |
| Bank debt | € 1,825,465 | € 1,817,133 | € 1,818,073 | € 1,839,935 | ▲ 1% |
| Balance sheet total | € 3,522,220 | € 3,291,174 | € 3,571,877 | € 3,363,410 | ▼ 6% |
| Employees (FTE) | 34 | 30.9 | 30.2 | 28.7 | ▼ 1.5 |
Key figures of CLIPS, fiscal years 2023 to 2026, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2027) expected before 31 October 2027.
What happened to CLIPS?
What happened at CLIPS in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Henry De Pauw stepped down as director. NBB
- Karin Lampaert stepped down as director. NBB
- Dirk Pieter De Pauw stepped down as director. NBB
- Isabelle De Pauw stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2026: loss of € 91,736. Source: NBB ↗
- Henry De Pauw became a director. NBB
- Karin Lampaert became a director. NBB
- Dirk Pieter De Pauw became a director. NBB
In short
From € 227,285 loss in 2023 to € 91,736 loss in 2026.
Paid € 7,066 in corporate taxes since 2023.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 20,442 profit.
On average € 69,200 of value added per employee in 2026.
Management
Directors
According to the 2026 annual accounts
since 2022 · until 2027
since 2022 · until 2027
Dirk Pieter De Pauw
Managing director
since 2022 · until 2027
since 2022 · until 2027
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Gentsesteenweg 11
1730 Asse
Gentsesteenweg 11-15
1730 Asse
Active since 13 December 1988
Gentse steenweg 390
9300 Aalst
Active since 15 September 2000
Kortrijksesteenweg 5
9830 Sint-Martens-Latem
Active since 17 January 2022
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.
Website
Technologies
Hosting & Email
Email provider
Self-hosted
Hosting
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Website info
Features
Security
Details
- Company number
- 0422.482.213
- VAT number
- BE 0422.482.213
- Registered office
- Gentsesteenweg 11, 1730 Asse
- Names & denominations
- CLIPS
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 18 February 1982
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 21 Oct 2026
- Contact
- clips.be
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