Financials
Financial year 2025
CARA from Hoogstraten, company number BE0434914049, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 899,370 after tax. For that financial year CARA recorded a gross margin of € 1.5 million and equity of € 4.1 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 894,838 to € 899,370. Profitable, and profit is growing. 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 July 2, 2026.
€ 4.1 million
▲ 13% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 899,370
▲ 1% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 1.2 million
▲ 21% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 435,006 paid out
48 % of the profit went to the shareholders, the rest stayed in the company.
People and assets in 2025
2.7
▲ 0.4 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 150,413
▲ 12% vs 2024
€ 55,700 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.
€ 72,788
▼ 21% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
None
No bank loans on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 340,419
▲ 288% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 30,882
▼ 13% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 1,146,138 | € 1,193,123 | € 1,544,524 | € 1,520,751 | ▼ 2% |
| Profit after taxes | € 634,619 | € 685,592 | € 894,838 | € 899,370 | ▲ 1% |
| Equity | € 2,550,324 | € 3,047,448 | € 3,666,721 | € 4,131,084 | ▲ 13% |
| Total debts | € 621,853 | € 408,003 | € 398,652 | € 806,308 | ▲ 102% |
| Cash | € 411,605 | € 678,319 | € 1,002,126 | € 1,213,142 | ▲ 21% |
| Land & buildings | € 1,015,045 | € 1,005,450 | € 985,627 | € 965,803 | ▼ 2% |
| Retained profit | € 2,463,449 | € 2,960,573 | € 3,579,846 | € 4,044,209 | ▲ 13% |
| Dividend | € 160,949 | € 188,468 | € 275,565 | € 435,006 | ▲ 58% |
| Balance sheet total | € 3,172,176 | € 3,455,451 | € 4,065,373 | € 4,937,392 | ▲ 21% |
| Employees (FTE) | 2.7 | 2.7 | 2.3 | 2.7 | ▲ 0.4 |
Key figures of CARA, 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 CARA?
What happened at CARA in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Niki BOUCHIER stepped down as director. NBB
- Hilde Beyers stepped down as director. NBB
- Luc Bouchier stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 899,370 (▲ 1% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Schoten. KBO
- New establishment in Hoogstraten. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 634,619 profit in 2022 to € 899,370 profit in 2025.
Paid € 1.4 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 899,370 profit.
On average € 563,200 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%
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Management
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
· until 2029
· until 2029
· until 2029
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Sint Lenaartseweg 50
2320 Hoogstraten
Kraaienlei 12
2900 Schoten
Active since 2 January 2013
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
- 0434.914.049
- VAT number
- BE 0434.914.049
- Registered office
- Sint Lenaartseweg 50, 2320 Hoogstraten
- Names & denominations
- CARA
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 29 July 1988
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 20 Nov 2020
- Activities · NACE
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