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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 2024 and 2025.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 25.4 to 21.5.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Automobiles-François from Neufchâteau, company number BE0428182744, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -4,142 after tax. For that financial year Automobiles-François recorded a gross margin of € 1.4 million and equity of € 341,366. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -55,131 to € -4,142. 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 July 23, 2026.
€ 341,366
▼ 1% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -4,142
▲ 92 % less loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 230,530
▼ 32% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 227,768.
People and assets in 2025
21.5
▼ 2.2 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.2 million
▼ 14% vs 2024
€ 57,800 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.
€ 21,831
▼ 21% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 933,800
▼ 4% vs 2024
€ 14,968 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 3 years.
€ 74,831
▼ 58% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 202,470
▼ 27% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2021 | 2022 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 10,817,672 | € 10,645,877 | - | - | |
| Gross margin | - | - | € 1,494,218 | € 1,391,000 | ▼ 7% |
| Profit after taxes | € 240,169 | € 1,033,685 | € -55,131 | € -4,142 | ▲ € 50,990 |
| Equity | € 723,762 | € 1,717,446 | € 345,507 | € 341,366 | ▼ 1% |
| Total debts | € 1,918,921 | € 1,724,688 | € 1,422,554 | € 1,211,101 | ▼ 15% |
| Cash | € 485,237 | € 530,933 | € 340,798 | € 230,530 | ▼ 32% |
| Land & buildings | € 233,192 | € 678,306 | - | - | |
| Retained profit | € 165,962 | € 1,159,646 | € 231,909 | € 227,768 | ▼ 2% |
| Dividend | € 240,000 | € 40,000 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Bank debt | € 577,098 | € 567,177 | € 970,625 | € 933,800 | ▼ 4% |
| Balance sheet total | € 2,642,683 | € 3,720,116 | € 1,768,062 | € 1,552,466 | ▼ 12% |
| Employees (FTE) | 17.7 | 25.4 | 23.7 | 21.5 | ▼ 2.2 |
Key figures of Automobiles-François, fiscal years 2021 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 Automobiles-François?
What happened at Automobiles-François in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 4,142. Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Arlon. KBO
- New establishment in Neufchâteau. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 240,169 profit in 2021 to € 4,142 loss in 2025.
Paid € 25,542 in corporate taxes since 2021.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 1 million profit.
On average € 64,700 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
Behind Automobiles-François are Mobil Invest SA and Jean-François Declerc. The shares are held by Mobil Invest.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Managing director · represented by Declerc Jean-Philippe
Also active at: Dinant Motors, GEMBLOUX AUTOMOBILES, CINEY AUTOMOBILES, MARCHE MOTORS
Jean-François Declerc
Director
Also active at: DECLERC, Immodena, Dinant Motors, GEMBLOUX AUTOMOBILES, CINEY AUTOMOBILES, COMPAGNIE IMMOBILIERE NAMUR LUXEMBOURG, Green2move, MARCHE MOTORS +1 more
Shareholders
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Chaussée de Bastogne,LGL 36
6840 Neufchâteau
Route de Luxembourg 116
6700 Arlon
Active since 17 January 2022
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 1 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0428.182.744
- VAT number
- BE 0428.182.744
- Registered office
- Chaussée de Bastogne,LGL 36, 6840 Neufchâteau
- Names & denominations
- Automobiles-François
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 1 January 1986
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 27 Mar 2026
- Activities · NACE
Detailhandel in auto's en lichte bestelwagens (<= 3,5 ton)
Algemeen onderhoud en reparatie van auto's en lichte bestelwagens (<= 3,5 ton)
Onderhoud en reparatie van auto's
Detailhandel in auto's en lichte bestelwagens (= 3,5 ton)
Algemeen onderhoud en reparatie van auto's en lichte bestelwagens (= 3,5 ton)
Detailhandel in motorbrandstoffen
Carrosserieherstelling (inclusief spuiten en verven)
Detailhandel in onderdelen en accessoires van motorvoertuigen
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