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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 39 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
CLEAN - CAR from Gent, company number BE0440557568, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 17,689 after tax. For that financial year CLEAN - CAR recorded a gross margin of € 223,802 and equity of € 93,631. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 39,235 to € 17,689. The company is profitable. The buffer is growing. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on August 31, 2026.
€ 93,631
▲ 23% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 17,689
▼ 55% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 47,988
▲ € 36,997 vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Stays in the company
No dividend for 2025. Retained profit grew to € -201,415.
People and assets in 2025
1.1
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 49,848
▲ 14% vs 2024
€ 45,300 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.
€ 28,973
▼ 36% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 284,805
▼ 35% vs 2024
€ 84,573 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 3 years.
€ 53,768
▲ 4% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 48,867
▲ 229% vs 2024
Corporate tax and VAT still to pay. No wage debt: nothing outstanding to staff or social security.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 187,101 | € 183,874 | € 246,841 | € 223,802 | ▼ 9% |
| Profit after taxes | € 6,859 | € 2,987 | € 39,235 | € 17,689 | ▼ 55% |
| Equity | € 33,720 | € 36,707 | € 75,942 | € 93,631 | ▲ 23% |
| Total debts | € 1,446,775 | € 1,381,527 | € 1,329,755 | € 1,246,620 | ▼ 6% |
| Cash | € 30,892 | € 18,974 | € 10,991 | € 47,988 | ▲ € 36,997 |
| Land & buildings | € 704,514 | € 727,343 | € 717,344 | € 698,807 | ▼ 3% |
| Retained profit | € -261,326 | € -258,338 | € -219,103 | € -201,415 | ▲ € 17,689 |
| Bank debt | € 642,689 | € 536,104 | € 438,417 | € 284,805 | ▼ 35% |
| Balance sheet total | € 1,480,495 | € 1,418,234 | € 1,405,697 | € 1,340,251 | ▼ 5% |
| Employees (FTE) | 2 | 2 | - | 1.1 |
Key figures of CLEAN - CAR, 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 CLEAN - CAR?
What happened at CLEAN - CAR in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 17,689 (▼ 55% vs 2024). filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Yves BAUWENS became a director. NBB
- LIEVEN STERCKX became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Gent. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 6,859 profit in 2022 to € 17,689 profit in 2025.
Paid € 26,999 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 39,235 profit.
On average € 203,500 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of TEN BURG comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
CLEAN - CARBehind CLEAN - CAR are Yves BAUWENS, Arnaud BAUWES and LIEVEN STERCKX. The shares are held by TEN BURG (83.3%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
since 2015
Arnaud BAUWES
Director
since 2015
Shareholders
83.3%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Orchideestraat 32
9041 Gent
Orchideestraat sn
9041 Gent
Active since 9 May 1990
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- Company number
- 0440.557.568
- VAT number
- BE 0440.557.568
- Registered office
- Orchideestraat 32, 9041 Gent
- Names & denominations
- CLEAN - CAR
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 9 April 1990
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