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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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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 28 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
V COAT from Heusden-Zolder, company number BE0437822762, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -1.1 million after tax. For that financial year V COAT recorded revenue of € 4.2 million and equity of € -491,476. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -725,300 to € -1.1 million. 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 27, 2026.
€ -491,476
▼ € 1.1 million vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -1.1 million
▼ 47 % more loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 426
▲ 67% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -743,726.
People and assets in 2025
41.1
▼ 1.9 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 2 million
▼ 15% vs 2024
€ 47,500 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.
€ 5,706
▼ 71% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 6.5 million
▼ 7% vs 2024
€ 866,670 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 8 years.
€ 243,205
▼ 65% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 40 days on average.
€ 353,300
▲ 1% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Revenue | € 4,804,868 | € 4,129,919 | € 4,185,302 | € 4,249,197 | ▲ 2% |
| Profit after taxes | € 235,450 | € -421,161 | € -725,300 | € -1,067,613 | ▼ € 342,313 |
| Equity | € 1,615,348 | € 1,194,187 | € 576,137 | € -491,476 | ▼ € 1.1 million |
| Total debts | € 1,683,629 | € 6,604,397 | € 9,195,708 | € 8,822,242 | ▼ 4% |
| Cash | € 536,603 | € 169,320 | € 255 | € 426 | ▲ 67% |
| Land & buildings | - | € 4,839,316 | € 5,011,734 | € 4,781,859 | ▼ 5% |
| Retained profit | € 1,470,348 | € 1,049,187 | € 323,887 | € -743,726 | ▼ € 1.1 million |
| Dividend | € 150,000 | € 0 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Bank debt | € 845,552 | € 5,584,116 | € 7,011,194 | € 6,513,350 | ▼ 7% |
| Balance sheet total | € 3,298,977 | € 7,798,584 | € 9,771,846 | € 8,330,766 | ▼ 15% |
| Employees (FTE) | 40.5 | 43.2 | 43 | 41.1 | ▼ 1.9 |
Key figures of V COAT, 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 V COAT?
What happened at V COAT in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Johan Peters stepped down as director. NBB
- Het Veer NV stepped down as director. NBB
- Rik Vandoorne stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 1.1 million. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Johan Peters became a director. NBB
- Maria De Baets stepped down as director. NBB
- New establishment in Heusden-Zolder. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 235,450 profit in 2022 to € 1.1 million loss in 2025.
Paid € 93,046 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 235,450 profit.
Paid out € 150,000 in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
The stake of HET VEER comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
V COATThe shares are held by HET VEER (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Sophie Vandoorne
Also active at: VAN OS - DURACOAT, ROBBY, DEBA, LAKKERIJ VANDEREYT, COTRABEL, CDC-Cabines de Ciney, FEMACO, sgc +3 more
· until 2029
· until 2025
since 2026 · until 2030
Rik Vandoorne
Managing director
Also active at: VAN OS - DURACOAT, ROBBY, DEBA, HET VEER, COTRABEL, CDC-Cabines de Ciney, HET VEER BLUE OCEAN, FEMACO +4 more
· until 2029
Shareholders
100%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Westlaan 268
3550 Heusden-Zolder
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
- 0437.822.762
- VAT number
- BE 0437.822.762
- Registered office
- Westlaan 268, 3550 Heusden-Zolder
- Names & denominations
- V COAT
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 7 July 1989
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 22 Sept 2025
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