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Annual account missing NBB
Fiscal year 2025 was expected before 30 April 2026 and has not been filed.
Financials
Financial year 2024
Decorama-Schauss from Malmedy, company number BE0423764987, closed financial year 2024 with a result of € 1.5 million after tax. For that financial year Decorama-Schauss recorded revenue of € 12.7 million and equity of € 10.5 million. Compared with financial year 2023, the result moved from € 1.7 million to € 1.5 million. The company is profitable. The buffer is growing. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on September 16, 2025.
€ 10.5 million
▲ 17% vs 2023
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 1.5 million
▼ 8% vs 2023
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 3.8 million
▲ 101% vs 2023
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Stays in the company
No dividend for 2024. Retained profit grew to € 10.4 million.
People and assets in 2024
37.7
▲ 3.1 vs 2023
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.7 million
▲ 8% vs 2023
€ 43,900 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.
€ 96,568
▲ 158% vs 2023
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2024
€ 1.6 million
▼ 15% vs 2023
€ 283,886 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 6 years.
€ 224,304
▼ 48% vs 2023
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 9 days on average.
€ 345,230
▲ 20% vs 2023
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Change 2023 → 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 14,198,633 | € 13,667,114 | € 13,348,003 | € 12,712,375 | ▼ 5% |
| Profit after taxes | € 2,434,334 | € 1,972,879 | € 1,679,032 | € 1,543,874 | ▼ 8% |
| Equity | € 7,789,308 | € 7,254,664 | € 8,933,696 | € 10,477,571 | ▲ 17% |
| Total debts | € 4,638,644 | € 4,761,931 | € 2,772,881 | € 2,434,914 | ▼ 12% |
| Cash | € 3,763,701 | € 3,172,569 | € 1,884,994 | € 3,797,216 | ▲ 101% |
| Land & buildings | € 4,068,568 | € 3,629,608 | € 3,243,160 | € 2,864,942 | ▼ 12% |
| Retained profit | € 7,714,308 | € 7,179,664 | € 8,858,696 | € 10,402,571 | ▲ 17% |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 2,507,523 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Bank debt | € 2,507,792 | € 2,175,167 | € 1,891,282 | € 1,607,396 | ▼ 15% |
| Balance sheet total | € 12,427,952 | € 12,016,595 | € 11,706,577 | € 12,912,485 | ▲ 10% |
| Employees (FTE) | 37.3 | 35.7 | 34.6 | 37.7 | ▲ 3.1 |
Key figures of Decorama-Schauss, fiscal years 2021 to 2024, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.The annual account for fiscal year 2025 has not been filed yet; it was expected before 30 April 2026.
What happened to Decorama-Schauss?
What happened at Decorama-Schauss in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Walter SCHAUSS stepped down as director. NBB
- DECOGES S.A. stepped down as director. NBB
- José Roland SCHAUSS stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2024: profit of € 1.5 million (▼ 8% vs 2023). filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Walter SCHAUSS became a director. NBB
- DECOGES S.A. became a director. NBB
- José Roland SCHAUSS became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Marche-en-Famenne. KBO
In short
From € 2.4 million profit in 2021 to € 1.5 million profit in 2024.
Paid € 2.5 million in corporate taxes since 2021.
Best year ever: 2021, with € 2.4 million profit.
Paid out € 2.5 million in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
The stake of DECOGES comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
Decorama-SchaussThe shares are held by DECOGES (100%).
Directors
According to the 2024 annual accounts
Walter SCHAUSS
Director
since 2023 · until 2029
Managing director · represented by SCHAUSS CARLO
since 2023 · until 2029
José Roland SCHAUSS
Director
since 2023 · until 2029
Shareholders
100%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Avenue du Pont de Warche 5
4960 Malmedy
Aye, Rue Borchamps 22
6900 Marche-en-Famenne
Active since 11 December 2001
Boulevard des Gérardchamps 64 B
4800 Verviers
Active since 13 December 1991
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 2 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0423.764.987
- VAT number
- BE 0423.764.987
- Registered office
- Avenue du Pont de Warche 5, 4960 Malmedy
- Names & denominations
- Decorama-Schauss
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 14 December 1982
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 12 Jan 2026
- Contact
- decorama.be [email protected] 080791055
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