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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Negative equity NBB
More debt than assets in 1 of the last 4 fiscal years.
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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 63 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 2 to 1.1.
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Figures corrected NBB
Corrected annual account filed for 2024.
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Busy address KBO
50 other companies have their registered office at the same address; threshold 10.
Financials
Financial year 2025
KOBOLD INSTRUMENTATIE from Grimbergen, company number BE0431596550, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -154,784 after tax. For that financial year KOBOLD INSTRUMENTATIE recorded a gross margin of € 213,847 and equity of € -56,657. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -78,160 to € -154,784. The company made a loss. More debts than assets. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on June 18, 2026.
€ -56,657
▼ € 154,784 vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -154,784
▼ 98 % more loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 33,496
▼ 48% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -118,657.
People and assets in 2025
1.1
▼ 0.4 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 125,768
▼ 6% vs 2024
€ 114,300 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.
€ 2,826
▼ 67% vs 2024
Of which on lease € 2,826.
Debts at end 2025
€ 153,958
▲ € 145,350 vs 2024
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 69,357
▼ 15% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 20,243
▲ 5% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 232,863 | € 189,355 | € 183,714 | € 213,847 | ▲ 16% |
| Profit after taxes | € 71,143 | € 27,775 | € -78,160 | € -154,784 | ▼ € 76,624 |
| Equity | € 1,269,094 | € 1,296,869 | € 98,127 | € -56,657 | ▼ € 154,784 |
| Total debts | € 79,753 | € 70,823 | € 112,902 | € 245,092 | ▲ 117% |
| Cash | € 176,487 | € 213,354 | € 64,478 | € 33,496 | ▼ 48% |
| Retained profit | € 1,207,094 | € 1,234,869 | € 36,127 | € -118,657 | ▼ € 154,784 |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 0 | € 1,120,582 | € 0 | ▼ 100% |
| Bank debt | € 19,912 | € 14,284 | € 8,608 | € 153,958 | ▲ € 145,350 |
| Balance sheet total | € 1,348,846 | € 1,367,692 | € 211,030 | € 188,435 | ▼ 11% |
| Employees (FTE) | 2 | 2 | 1.5 | 1.1 | ▼ 0.4 |
Key figures of KOBOLD INSTRUMENTATIE, 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 KOBOLD INSTRUMENTATIE?
What happened at KOBOLD INSTRUMENTATIE in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Kobold Messring GmbH stepped down as director. NBB
- Klaus Kobold stepped down as director. NBB
- Jean-Luc Debackere stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 154,784. Source: NBB ↗
- Kobold Messring GmbH became a director. NBB
- Klaus Kobold became a director. NBB
- Jean-Luc Debackere became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Grimbergen. KBO
In short
From € 71,143 profit in 2022 to € 154,784 loss in 2025.
Paid € 38,015 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 71,143 profit.
On average € 194,400 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Kobold Messring GmbH
Director · represented by Hans Volz
since 2024 · until 2030
Klaus Kobold
Director
since 2024 · until 2030
Jean-Luc Debackere
Director
since 2024 · until 2030
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Sint-Amandsstraat 2
1853 Grimbergen
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Details
- Company number
- 0431.596.550
- VAT number
- BE 0431.596.550
- Registered office
- Sint-Amandsstraat 2, 1853 Grimbergen
- Names & denominations
- KOBOLD INSTRUMENTATIE
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 10 July 1987
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