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Negative equity NBB
More debt than assets in 2 of the last 4 fiscal years.
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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2024 and 2025.
Financials
Financial year 2025
HOT COUTURE from Gent, company number BE0435666194, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -54,052 after tax. For that financial year HOT COUTURE recorded a gross margin of € 45,053 and equity of € -60,126. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -35,981 to € -54,052. 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 August 29, 2026.
€ -60,126
▼ € 54,052 vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -54,052
▼ 50 % more loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 52,525
▼ 20% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -282,086.
People and assets in 2025
1
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 47,157
▼ 4% vs 2024
€ 47,200 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.
€ 3,051
▼ 4% 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.
€ 5,573
▼ 47% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 32,326
▼ 11% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 91,414 | € 107,464 | € 86,798 | € 45,053 | ▼ 48% |
| Profit after taxes | € -15,295 | € -5,331 | € -35,981 | € -54,052 | ▼ € 18,071 |
| Equity | € 35,238 | € 29,906 | € -6,074 | € -60,126 | ▼ € 54,052 |
| Total debts | € 292,794 | € 388,176 | € 407,324 | € 428,231 | ▲ 5% |
| Cash | € 34,913 | € 60,541 | € 65,747 | € 52,525 | ▼ 20% |
| Retained profit | € -186,722 | € -192,054 | € -228,034 | € -282,086 | ▼ € 54,052 |
| Bank debt | € 84,791 | € 76,408 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Balance sheet total | € 328,031 | € 418,082 | € 401,250 | € 368,105 | ▼ 8% |
| Employees (FTE) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Key figures of HOT COUTURE, 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 HOT COUTURE?
What happened at HOT COUTURE in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 54,052. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- BIMAR MANAGEMENT BVBA became a director. NBB
- RUNE VAN WASSENHOVE became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Gent. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 15,295 loss in 2022 to € 54,052 loss in 2025.
Paid € 623 in corporate taxes since 2022.
On average € 45,100 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
The stake of BIMAR MANAGEMENT comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
HOT COUTUREBehind HOT COUTURE are BIMAR MANAGEMENT BVBA and RUNE VAN WASSENHOVE. The shares are held by BIMAR MANAGEMENT (27.7%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Managing director · represented by MARTINE BIRLOUET
since 2014
RUNE VAN WASSENHOVE
Director
since 2014
Shareholders
27.7%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Onderbergen 29
9000 Gent
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0435.666.194
- VAT number
- BE 0435.666.194
- Registered office
- Onderbergen 29, 9000 Gent
- Names & denominations
- HOT COUTURE
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 27 October 1988
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 23 Oct 2025
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