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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 12 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Bèta from Mechelen, company number BE0436981337, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 28,208 after tax. For that financial year Bèta recorded a gross margin of € 925,862 and equity of € 1.3 million. Compared with financial year 2023, the result moved from € 124,080 to € 28,208. The company is profitable. 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 17, 2026.
€ 1.3 million
▲ 8% vs 2023
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 28,208
▼ 77% vs 2023
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 57,786
▼ 34% vs 2023
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Stays in the company
No dividend for 2025. Retained profit grew to € 734,254.
People and assets in 2025
17.3
▲ 0.2 vs 2023
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 788,886
▲ 12% vs 2023
€ 45,600 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.
€ 47,977
▲ € 42,024 vs 2023
Of which on lease € 36,069.
Debts at end 2025
€ 34,994
€ 12,007 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 3 years.
€ 248,113
▼ 27% vs 2023
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 151,393
▲ 5% vs 2023
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2025 | Change 2023 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 6,450,291 | € 5,642,737 | - | - | |
| Gross margin | - | - | € 1,014,300 | € 925,862 | ▼ 9% |
| Profit after taxes | € 280,049 | € 126,980 | € 124,080 | € 28,208 | ▼ 77% |
| Equity | € 928,111 | € 1,055,091 | € 1,179,171 | € 1,278,380 | ▲ 8% |
| Total debts | € 1,113,431 | € 1,258,623 | € 1,063,295 | € 783,610 | ▼ 26% |
| Cash | € 57,161 | € 57,525 | € 87,366 | € 57,786 | ▼ 34% |
| Retained profit | € 383,985 | € 510,964 | € 635,044 | € 734,254 | ▲ 16% |
| Dividend | € 3,000,000 | € 0 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Bank debt | € 0 | € 0 | € 0 | € 34,994 | |
| Balance sheet total | € 2,041,542 | € 2,313,714 | € 2,242,465 | € 2,061,990 | ▼ 8% |
| Employees (FTE) | 15 | 17.5 | 17.1 | 17.3 | ▲ 0.2 |
Key figures of Bèta, fiscal years 2021 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 Bèta?
What happened at Bèta in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- E.A.M. VAN OSTA stepped down as director. NBB
- C.M.F. LIEKENS stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 28,208 (▼ 77% vs 2023). Source: NBB ↗
- E.A.M. VAN OSTA became a director. NBB
- C.M.F. LIEKENS became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Mechelen. KBO
- New establishment in Mechelen. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 280,049 profit in 2021 to € 28,208 profit in 2025.
Paid € 195,963 in corporate taxes since 2021.
Best year ever: 2021, with € 280,049 profit.
On average € 53,500 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of Teweka comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
BètaThe shares are held by Hubo Belgie NV (100%) and Teweka (0%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
E.A.M. VAN OSTA
Managing director
Also active at: A.I.T. IMPORT, Anciens Etablissements Robert Collette, PADIS, Hubo België, EPSILON, Spabois, SAMBRE - BOIS, Dubomat +51 more
since 2021 · until 2027
C.M.F. LIEKENS
Managing director
Also active at: A.I.T. IMPORT, Anciens Etablissements Robert Collette, PADIS, Hubo België, EPSILON, Spabois, SAMBRE - BOIS, Dubomat +53 more
since 2021 · until 2027
Shareholders
100%
0%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Nekkerspoelstraat 447
2800 Mechelen
Steenweg op Blaasveld(HEF) 13
2801 Mechelen
Active since 18 April 1989
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0436.981.337
- VAT number
- BE 0436.981.337
- Registered office
- Nekkerspoelstraat 447, 2800 Mechelen
- Names & denominations
- Bèta
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 10 March 1989
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 15 Dec 2025
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