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 2024 and 2025.
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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 48 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Maxomotive from Mechelen, company number BE0430801744, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -4.6 million after tax. For that financial year Maxomotive recorded revenue of € 201.9 million and equity of € 4.4 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -10.9 million to € -4.6 million. The company made a loss. The buffer shrank hard: equity is 51 % below last year. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on June 22, 2026.
€ 4.4 million
▼ 51% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -4.6 million
▲ 58 % less loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -15.2 million.
People and assets in 2025
4.4
▲ 0.7 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 611,564
▲ 10% vs 2024
€ 139,000 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.
€ 8.6 million
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 2.7 million
▼ 93% vs 2024
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 41.5 million
▲ 184% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 72 days on average.
€ 4.4 million
▲ 58% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 77,235,029 | € 291,333,888 | € 170,399,774 | € 201,904,176 | ▲ 18% |
| Profit after taxes | € -2,335,332 | € -8,288,036 | € -10,929,972 | € -4,560,690 | ▲ € 6.4 million |
| Equity | € 2,162,146 | € 5,874,110 | € 8,944,138 | € 4,383,448 | ▼ 51% |
| Total debts | € 85,819,526 | € 82,730,859 | € 75,189,641 | € 58,024,615 | ▼ 23% |
| Cash | € 575,440 | € 64 | € 96 | - | |
| Retained profit | € -6,110,755 | € -8,007,199 | € -10,649,136 | € -15,209,826 | ▼ € 4.6 million |
| Bank debt | € 41,913,786 | € 24,011,492 | € 38,840,308 | € 2,697,048 | ▼ 93% |
| Balance sheet total | € 88,351,941 | € 89,384,847 | € 85,275,893 | € 62,880,663 | ▼ 26% |
| Employees (FTE) | 7.6 | 4.8 | 3.7 | 4.4 | ▲ 0.7 |
Key figures of Maxomotive, 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 Maxomotive?
What happened at Maxomotive in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Didier Vanderperren stepped down as director. NBB
- Gerald Lautenschläger stepped down as director. NBB
- Finez BV stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 4.6 million. Source: NBB ↗
- Didier Vanderperren became a director. NBB
- Gerald Lautenschläger became a director. NBB
- Finez BV became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Mechelen. KBO
In short
From € 2.3 million loss in 2022 to € 4.6 million loss in 2025.
Paid € 3,920 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Pays suppliers within 72 days on average.
Management
The stake of Astara Western Europe comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
MaxomotiveThe shares are held by Astara Western Europe (100%). It owns 100% of Maxomotive Deutschland GmbH itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Didier Vanderperren
Director
Also active at: Korean Motor Company, Astara Financial Products, Astara Western Europe, ASTARA MOVE BELGIUM
since 2022 · until 2031
Director · represented by Olivier Sermeus
Also active at: Korean Motor Company, Astara Financial Products, SUZUKI BELGIUM, Astara Western Europe, EURO SERVICE HEATING, FAVOR FINANCE, ASTARA MOVE BELGIUM
since 2021 · until 2027
Gerald Lautenschläger
Director
since 2022 · until 2031
Shareholders
Participations
Maxomotive Deutschland GmbH
100%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Bedrijvenlaan 4
2800 Mechelen
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 8 companies are registered at this address.
All companies at this address →Korean Motor Company same network
€ 430.8 million revenue · 2025
Astara Financial Products same network
€ 1 million revenue · 2025
SUZUKI BELGIUM same network
€ 94 million revenue · 2025
Astara Western Europe same network
€ 30.6 million revenue · 2025
Ssangyong Motors Middle Europe
€ 37 million revenue · 2025
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Website
Technologies
Hosting & Email
Email provider
Microsoft 365
Hosting
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Website info
Features
Security
Details
- Company number
- 0430.801.744
- VAT number
- BE 0430.801.744
- Registered office
- Bedrijvenlaan 4, 2800 Mechelen
- Names & denominations
- Maxomotive
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 24 March 1987
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 24 Nov 2025
- Contact
- maxusmotors.be
- Activities · NACE
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