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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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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 20 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Busy address KBO
44 other companies have their registered office at the same address; threshold 10.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Pates Consulting from Pelt, company number BE0442493115, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 58,066 after tax. For that financial year Pates Consulting recorded a gross margin of € 163,631 and equity of € 40.8 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 2.1 million to € 58,066. 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 January 29, 2026.
€ 40.8 million
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 58,066
▼ 97% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
Stays in the company
No dividend for 2025. Retained profit grew to € 5.3 million.
People and assets in 2025
1.4
▲ 0.7 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 155,592
▲ 114% vs 2024
€ 111,100 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.
€ 5,904
▼ 46% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 223,504
▼ 1% vs 2024
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 200,808
▼ 44% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 52,992
▲ 78% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 243,157 | € 233,558 | € 163,631 | ▼ 30% |
| Profit after taxes | € 40,300 | € 2,137,718 | € 58,066 | ▼ 97% |
| Equity | € 38,620,728 | € 40,758,446 | € 40,816,511 | |
| Total debts | € 1,517,870 | € 2,061,882 | € 962,618 | ▼ 53% |
| Land & buildings | € 337,300 | € 315,010 | € 292,721 | ▼ 7% |
| Retained profit | € 3,125,520 | € 5,263,238 | € 5,321,304 | ▲ 1% |
| Bank debt | € 212,336 | € 225,215 | € 223,504 | ▼ 1% |
| Balance sheet total | € 40,138,597 | € 42,820,328 | € 41,779,129 | ▼ 2% |
| Employees (FTE) | 0.7 | 0.7 | 1.4 | ▲ 0.7 |
Key figures of Pates Consulting, fiscal years 2023 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2026) expected before 30 January 2027.
What happened to Pates Consulting?
What happened at Pates Consulting in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 58,066 (▼ 97% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Pelt. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 40,300 profit in 2023 to € 58,066 profit in 2025.
Paid € 45,359 in corporate taxes since 2023.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 2.1 million profit.
On average € 116,900 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
Behind Pates Consulting are Paul Kerkhofs and Therese Damen. The shares are held by SWBPC (100%). It owns 100% of R-Drilling, 100% of RDJ Drilling (in vereffening), 100% of APK Poland SPZOO, 100% of LUNA, 100% of Pates ESP and 99% of APK Infra & Construction S.R.L. itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Paul Kerkhofs
Director
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Shareholders
100%
Participations
100%
APK Poland SPZOO
100%
100%
100%
APK Infra & Construction S.R.L.
99%
76.9%
47.5%
33.3%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Haltstraat 50
3900 Pelt
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Details
- Company number
- 0442.493.115
- VAT number
- BE 0442.493.115
- Registered office
- Haltstraat 50, 3900 Pelt
- Names & denominations
- Pates Consulting
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 5 December 1990
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 1 Jan 2001
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