Warning lights
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 2023 and 2024.
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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 31 % of short-term debt in 2024; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2024
KANUSE from Vielsalm, company number BE0423974429, closed financial year 2024 with a result of € -46,838 after tax. For that financial year KANUSE recorded a gross margin of € 432,142 and equity of € 336,901. Compared with financial year 2023, the result moved from € -3,453 to € -46,838. The company made a loss. The company holds a healthy buffer. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on August 27, 2025.
€ 336,901
▼ 12% vs 2023
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -46,838
▼ 1257 % more loss than in 2023
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 205,746
▼ 19% vs 2023
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 186,901.
People and assets in 2024
11
▲ 0.8 vs 2023
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 442,567
▲ 8% vs 2023
€ 40,200 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.
€ 9,222
▼ 17% vs 2023
Of which on lease € 9,222.
Debts at end 2024
€ 84,215
▼ 10% vs 2023
€ 77,050 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 1 years.
€ 590,437
▼ 4% vs 2023
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 54,820
▲ 2% vs 2023
Wages, holiday pay and social contributions still to pay. No outstanding taxes.
| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Change 2023 → 2024 | |
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| Gross margin | € 535,642 | € 457,202 | € 451,825 | € 432,142 | ▼ 4% |
| Profit after taxes | € 109,808 | € 28,673 | € -3,453 | € -46,838 | ▼ € 43,385 |
| Equity | € 358,519 | € 387,192 | € 383,739 | € 336,901 | ▼ 12% |
| Total debts | € 767,035 | € 654,959 | € 1,239,053 | € 1,205,358 | ▼ 3% |
| Cash | € 248,098 | € 156,190 | € 253,034 | € 205,746 | ▼ 19% |
| Retained profit | € 208,519 | € 237,192 | € 233,739 | € 186,901 | ▼ 20% |
| Bank debt | € 142,613 | € 126,928 | € 93,712 | € 84,215 | ▼ 10% |
| Balance sheet total | € 1,125,554 | € 1,042,150 | € 1,622,792 | € 1,542,258 | ▼ 5% |
| Employees (FTE) | 10.3 | 10.2 | 10.2 | 11 | ▲ 0.8 |
Key figures of KANUSE, 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 31 July 2026.
What happened to KANUSE?
What happened at KANUSE in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2024: loss of € 46,838. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Ralph Schaus became a director. NBB
- Doris Schaus became a director. NBB
- Karin SCHAUS-HAEP became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Vielsalm. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 109,808 profit in 2021 to € 46,838 loss in 2024.
Paid € 54,009 in corporate taxes since 2021.
Best year ever: 2021, with € 109,808 profit.
On average € 39,300 of value added per employee in 2024.
Management
The stake of DOKARA SCHAUS comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
KANUSEBehind KANUSE are Ralph Schaus, Doris Schaus and Karin SCHAUS-HAEP. The shares are held by DOKARA SCHAUS (95%).
Directors
According to the 2024 annual accounts
Ralph Schaus
Director
since 2022
Doris Schaus
Director
Also active at: Ardenner Grenzmarkt, RESCO, GROSSMARKT, CENTRALMARKT, ENTWICKLUNGS- UND BETEILIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT OSTBELGIENS, EUSCO
since 2022
since 2022
Shareholders
95%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Les-Grands-Champs 38
6690 Vielsalm
Les-Grands-Champs sn
6690 Vielsalm
Active since 1 December 1983
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0423.974.429
- VAT number
- BE 0423.974.429
- Registered office
- Les-Grands-Champs 38, 6690 Vielsalm
- Names & denominations
- KANUSE
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 14 September 1983
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 4 Jul 2025
- Activities · NACE
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