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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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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 4 to 3.
Financials
Financial year 2025
LO-AUTO from Lochristi, company number BE0424302645, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 6,092 after tax. For that financial year LO-AUTO recorded revenue of € 937,960 and equity of € 995,386. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 57,329 to € 6,092. 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 April 1, 2026.
€ 995,386
▲ 1% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 6,092
▼ 89% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 98,868
▼ 47% 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 € 958,202.
People and assets in 2025
3
▼ 0.7 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 175,851
▼ 13% vs 2024
€ 58,600 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.
€ 30,179
▼ 10% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 1,592
▲ 1% vs 2024
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 105,160
▼ 23% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 144,796
▲ 182% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 1,098,713 | € 1,041,155 | € 1,014,486 | € 937,960 | ▼ 8% |
| Gross margin | € 336,232 | € 286,474 | € 299,328 | € 235,468 | ▼ 21% |
| Profit after taxes | € 6,085 | € 332,009 | € 57,329 | € 6,092 | ▼ 89% |
| Equity | € 601,648 | € 932,824 | € 989,294 | € 995,386 | ▲ 1% |
| Total debts | € 292,052 | € 231,911 | € 210,187 | € 340,735 | ▲ 62% |
| Cash | € 83,745 | € 123,472 | € 185,940 | € 98,868 | ▼ 47% |
| Land & buildings | € 138,405 | € 42,682 | € 42,963 | € 749,445 | ▲ € 706,482 |
| Retained profit | € 564,464 | € 895,640 | € 952,110 | € 958,202 | ▲ 1% |
| Dividend | € 800 | € 833 | € 859 | € 0 | ▼ 100% |
| Bank debt | € 34,351 | € 9,967 | € 1,575 | € 1,592 | ▲ 1% |
| Balance sheet total | € 893,700 | € 1,243,605 | € 1,276,578 | € 1,411,055 | ▲ 11% |
| Employees (FTE) | 4.5 | 4 | 3.7 | 3 | ▼ 0.7 |
Key figures of LO-AUTO, 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 LO-AUTO?
What happened at LO-AUTO in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 6,092 (▼ 89% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Lochristi. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 6,085 profit in 2022 to € 6,092 profit in 2025.
Paid € 50,105 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 332,009 profit.
On average € 78,500 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
Behind LO-AUTO is GILBERT GULDEMONT. The shares are held by Gilbert Guldemont (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Shareholders
Gilbert Guldemont · director
100%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Antwerpse Steenweg 11
9080 Lochristi
Antwerpse Steenweg 11A
9080 Lochristi
Active since 1 September 1983
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 1 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.
Details
- Company number
- 0424.302.645
- VAT number
- BE 0424.302.645
- Registered office
- Antwerpse Steenweg 11, 9080 Lochristi
- Names & denominations
- LO-AUTO
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 15 July 1983
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 21 Nov 2025
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