What does AB AUTO do?

AB AUTO is a market trader in Putte. Public Limited, started on 30 September 1991, 1 establishment.

What is the address of AB AUTO?

The registered office of AB AUTO is located at Aarschotbaan 18, 2580 Putte.

Is AB AUTO still active?

Yes. According to the CBE (29 October 2026) AB AUTO is active, legal situation “Normale toestand”, started on 30 September 1991.

Is AB AUTO registered on Peppol?

Yes, AB AUTO is registered on the Peppol network with ID 0208:0445356197.

What is the enterprise number of AB AUTO?

The enterprise number of AB AUTO is BE0445356197.

When was AB AUTO founded?

AB AUTO was founded on 30 September 1991.

Who are the directors of AB AUTO?

According to the 2025 annual accounts, the directors of AB AUTO are: A-Star Group BV, Ann Michiels, Lino Debaeke.

Is AB AUTO a reliable company?

Databakkes does not pass judgement; this is what the sources say: Active according to the CBE since 30 September 1991; 4 annual accounts filed, latest fiscal year 2025; 3 directors known from the annual account.

How much profit did AB AUTO make in 2025?

AB AUTO posted a profit after taxes of € 25,604 in financial year 2025.

What is the revenue of AB AUTO?

As a small company, AB AUTO is not required to publish revenue in its annual accounts. In financial year 2025, its added value was € 431,777.

How much does an employee at AB AUTO earn?

The average wage cost per full-time employee at AB AUTO was € 67,500 in 2025: staff costs of € 270,177 for 4 FTE, according to the annual account at the National Bank. That is the employer's cost, not net pay.

How many employees does AB AUTO have?

According to the 2025 annual accounts, AB AUTO has 4 full-time equivalents (FTE).

AB AUTO (Public Limited) - Putte - BE0445356197

Dossier AB AUTO, printed on 29 October 2026 from databakkes.be/en/0445356197/ab-auto. Sources: CBE, National Bank of Belgium, Belgian Official Gazette.

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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.

Tight liquidity NBB

Cash and receivables cover 63 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Shrinking team NBB

FTE fell two years in a row, from 6.5 to 4.
Board fully replaced NBB

No director from three years ago is still active according to annual account 2025.

Financials

Financial year 2025

AB AUTO from Putte, company number BE0445356197, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 25,604 after tax. For that financial year AB AUTO recorded a gross margin of € 431,777 and equity of € 173,587. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -65,516 to € 25,604. Profitable, and profit is growing. 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 October 15, 2026.

What it is worth Growing

€ 173,587

▲ 17% vs 2024

Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.

Profit Growing

€ 25,604

▲ still € 65,516 loss in 2024

Profit after tax over the fiscal year.

Cash in the bank

€ 34,668

▼ 1% vs 2024

Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.

Where the profit goes Growing

Stays in the company

No dividend for 2025. Retained profit grew to € 111,587.

People and assets in 2025

Full-time equivalents

▼ 2 vs 2024

Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.

Wage cost

€ 270,177

▼ 25% vs 2024

€ 67,500 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.

Vehicles and equipment

€ 7,802

▼ 37% vs 2024

Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.

Debts at end 2025

Bank debt

€ 3 million

Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.

Owed to suppliers

€ 536,166

▲ 70% vs 2024

Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.

Taxes and wages

€ 26,450

▼ 57% vs 2024

Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.

Key figures per fiscal year Download key figures (CSV)
	2022	2023	2024	2025	Change 2024 → 2025
Gross margin	€ 766,234 Gross margin 2022: € 766,234 First fiscal year in the series	€ 454,021 Gross margin 2023: € 454,021 ▼ 41% vs 2022 (€ 766,234) Unfavourable step	€ 386,379 Gross margin 2024: € 386,379 ▼ 15% vs 2023 (€ 454,021) Unfavourable step	€ 431,777 Gross margin 2025: € 431,777 ▲ 12% vs 2024 (€ 386,379) Favourable step	▲ 12%
Profit after taxes	€ 82,887 Profit after taxes 2022: € 82,887 First fiscal year in the series	€ -67,085 Profit after taxes 2023: € -67,085 ▼ € 149,973 vs 2022 (€ 82,887) Unfavourable step	€ -65,516 Profit after taxes 2024: € -65,516 ▲ € 1,570 vs 2023 (€ -67,085) Favourable step	€ 25,604 Profit after taxes 2025: € 25,604 ▲ € 91,120 vs 2024 (€ -65,516) Favourable step	▲ € 91,120
Equity	€ 280,584 Equity 2022: € 280,584 First fiscal year in the series	€ 213,499 Equity 2023: € 213,499 ▼ 24% vs 2022 (€ 280,584) Unfavourable step	€ 147,983 Equity 2024: € 147,983 ▼ 31% vs 2023 (€ 213,499) Unfavourable step	€ 173,587 Equity 2025: € 173,587 ▲ 17% vs 2024 (€ 147,983) Favourable step	▲ 17%
Total debts	€ 3,950,294 Total debts 2022: € 3,950,294 First fiscal year in the series	€ 3,745,337 Total debts 2023: € 3,745,337 ▼ 5% vs 2022 (€ 3,950,294) Favourable step	€ 3,367,320 Total debts 2024: € 3,367,320 ▼ 10% vs 2023 (€ 3,745,337) Favourable step	€ 3,624,204 Total debts 2025: € 3,624,204 ▲ 8% vs 2024 (€ 3,367,320) Unfavourable step	▲ 8%
Cash	€ 297,658 Cash 2022: € 297,658 First fiscal year in the series	€ 484,763 Cash 2023: € 484,763 ▲ 63% vs 2022 (€ 297,658) Favourable step	€ 35,152 Cash 2024: € 35,152 ▼ 93% vs 2023 (€ 484,763) Unfavourable step	€ 34,668 Cash 2025: € 34,668 ▼ 1% vs 2024 (€ 35,152) Unfavourable step	▼ 1%
Retained profit	€ 218,584 Retained profit 2022: € 218,584 First fiscal year in the series	€ 151,499 Retained profit 2023: € 151,499 ▼ 31% vs 2022 (€ 218,584) Unfavourable step	€ 85,983 Retained profit 2024: € 85,983 ▼ 43% vs 2023 (€ 151,499) Unfavourable step	€ 111,587 Retained profit 2025: € 111,587 ▲ 30% vs 2024 (€ 85,983) Favourable step	▲ 30%
Bank debt	€ 3,297,067 Bank debt 2022: € 3,297,067 First fiscal year in the series	€ 3,312,342 Bank debt 2023: € 3,312,342 Unchanged (€ 3,297,067) Unfavourable step	€ 2,954,812 Bank debt 2024: € 2,954,812 ▼ 11% vs 2023 (€ 3,312,342) Favourable step	€ 2,954,079 Bank debt 2025: € 2,954,079 Unchanged (€ 2,954,812) Favourable step
Balance sheet total	€ 4,230,878 Balance sheet total 2022: € 4,230,878 First fiscal year in the series	€ 3,958,836 Balance sheet total 2023: € 3,958,836 ▼ 6% vs 2022 (€ 4,230,878) Unchanged	€ 3,515,303 Balance sheet total 2024: € 3,515,303 ▼ 11% vs 2023 (€ 3,958,836) Unchanged	€ 3,797,792 Balance sheet total 2025: € 3,797,792 ▲ 8% vs 2024 (€ 3,515,303) Unchanged	▲ 8%
Employees (FTE)	7.1 Employees (FTE) 2022: 7.1 First fiscal year in the series	6.5 Employees (FTE) 2023: 6.5 ▼ 0.6 vs 2022 (7.1) Unchanged	6 Employees (FTE) 2024: 6 ▼ 0.5 vs 2023 (6.5) Unchanged	4 Employees (FTE) 2025: 4 ▼ 2 vs 2024 (6) Unchanged	▼ 2

Key figures of AB AUTO, 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 AB AUTO?

What happened at AB AUTO in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:

2026 Lino Debaeke stepped down as director. NBB
Oct 15, 2026 New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 25,604. filed late Source: NBB ↗
2021 Lino Debaeke became a director. NBB
Nov 7, 1991 New establishment in Putte. KBO
Sep 30, 1991 Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO

In short

From € 82,887 profit in 2022 to € 25,604 profit in 2025.

Paid € 55,303 in corporate taxes since 2022.

Best year ever: 2022, with € 82,887 profit.

On average € 107,900 of value added per employee in 2025.

Original PDFs at the National Bank ↗

Management

A-STAR GROUP 100%

The stake of A-STAR GROUP comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.

AB AUTO

Behind AB AUTO are A-Star Group BV and Ann Michiels. The shares are held by A-STAR GROUP (100%).

Directors

According to the 2025 annual accounts

A-Star Group BV

Director · represented by Ben Van Loo

Also active at: ABCO, Jan Moonen, B & Co RENT, Michiels, MOJA, AB, LOOCA, B-APART +20 more

Ann Michiels

Director

Also active at: ABCO, AB, VIA DAM, A-STAR GROUP

Lino Debaeke

Director

Also active at: SWEPTAIL

since 2021 · until 2026

Shareholders

A-STAR GROUP

100%

Participations

No participations in other companies reported.

Establishments

Establishment units

Physical locations of this company

Registered office

Aarschotbaan 18

2580 Putte

What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.

Details

Company number

0445.356.197

VAT number

BE 0445.356.197

Registered office

Aarschotbaan 18, 2580 Putte

Names & denominations

AB AUTO

Enterprise type

Rechtspersoon

Legal form

Public limited company

Legal situation

Normale toestand

Start date

30 September 1991

Peppol

Active · Active since 20 Nov 2020

Activities · NACE

Detailhandel in auto's en lichte bestelwagens (<= 3,5 ton)

Detailhandel in motorvoertuigen

Groothandel in auto's en lichte bestelwagens (<= 3,5 ton)

Groothandel in motorvoertuigen

Detailhandel in auto's en lichte bestelwagens (= 3,5 ton)

Groothandel in auto's en lichte bestelwagens (= 3,5 ton)

View on CBE Public ↗ Annual accounts (NBB) ↗

AB AUTO

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