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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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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 60 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 12.9 to 11.6.
Financials
Financial year 2025
AERTS from Heusden-Zolder, company number BE0430924082, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 59,663 after tax. For that financial year AERTS recorded a gross margin of € 815,946 and equity of € 324,868. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 98,600 to € 59,663. The company is profitable. 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 27, 2026.
€ 324,868
▼ 8% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 59,663
▼ 39% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 128,598
▼ 48% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 98,600 paid out
More than the year’s profit went to the shareholders; reserves fell.
People and assets in 2025
11.6
▼ 1 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 619,711
▲ 2% vs 2024
€ 53,400 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.
€ 111,492
▲ € 88,554 vs 2024
Of which on lease € 109,294.
Debts at end 2025
€ 909,388
▲ 44% vs 2024
€ 136,136 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 7 years.
€ 141,140
▲ 52% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 113,191
▲ 19% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 716,003 | € 797,584 | € 867,314 | € 815,946 | ▼ 6% |
| Profit after taxes | € 52,032 | € 67,943 | € 98,600 | € 59,663 | ▼ 39% |
| Equity | € 425,437 | € 393,380 | € 352,486 | € 324,868 | ▼ 8% |
| Total debts | € 1,055,961 | € 1,089,460 | € 822,876 | € 1,164,253 | ▲ 41% |
| Cash | € 232,853 | € 297,711 | € 249,036 | € 128,598 | ▼ 48% |
| Land & buildings | € 768,788 | € 717,292 | € 659,703 | € 942,848 | ▲ 43% |
| Retained profit | € 175,437 | € 143,380 | € 152,486 | € 113,550 | ▼ 26% |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 100,000 | € 89,494 | € 98,600 | ▲ 10% |
| Bank debt | € 808,146 | € 729,410 | € 629,399 | € 909,388 | ▲ 44% |
| Balance sheet total | € 1,481,398 | € 1,482,841 | € 1,175,363 | € 1,492,894 | ▲ 27% |
| Employees (FTE) | 13.9 | 12.9 | 12.6 | 11.6 | ▼ 1 |
Key figures of AERTS, 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 AERTS?
What happened at AERTS in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 59,663 (▼ 39% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Herwig Aerts became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Heusden-Zolder. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 52,032 profit in 2022 to € 59,663 profit in 2025.
Paid € 81,004 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 98,600 profit.
On average € 70,300 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of LITRICOL comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
AERTSBehind AERTS is Herwig Aerts. The shares are held by LITRICOL (100%).
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
G. Gezellelaan 175
3550 Heusden-Zolder
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0430.924.082
- VAT number
- BE 0430.924.082
- Registered office
- G. Gezellelaan 175, 3550 Heusden-Zolder
- Names & denominations
- AERTS
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 6 April 1987
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 5 Sept 2025
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