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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 4 of the last 4 fiscal years.
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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2023 and 2024.
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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 37 % of short-term debt in 2024; threshold 65 %.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 3.8 to 0.
Financials
Financial year 2024
MERCURY TRADING from Knokke-Heist, company number BE0446018173, closed financial year 2024 with a result of € -81,742 after tax. For that financial year MERCURY TRADING recorded a gross margin of € 13,809 and equity of € -937,918. Compared with financial year 2023, the result moved from € -553,546 to € -81,742. 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 September 26, 2025.
€ -937,918
▼ € 81,742 vs 2023
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -81,742
▲ 85 % less loss than in 2023
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 21,411
▲ 6% vs 2023
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -5.3 million.
People and assets in 2024
0
▼ 1.4 vs 2023
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 65
▼ € 130,382 vs 2023
Payroll staff only. What the director pays themselves is already netted into the gross margin and is not shown separately in the accounts.
€ 30,107
▼ 22% vs 2023
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2024
€ 630,507
▼ 5% vs 2023
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 12,615
▼ 96% vs 2023
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 1,469
▼ 95% vs 2023
Corporate tax and VAT still to pay. No wage debt: nothing outstanding to staff or social security.
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| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Change 2023 → 2024 | |
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| Gross margin | € -146,150 | € -21,335 | € 50,672 | € 13,809 | ▼ 73% |
| Profit after taxes | € -475,249 | € -196,413 | € -553,546 | € -81,742 | ▲ € 471,804 |
| Equity | € -106,217 | € -302,630 | € -856,176 | € -937,918 | ▼ € 81,742 |
| Total debts | € 2,730,202 | € 2,786,858 | € 3,169,470 | € 2,876,642 | ▼ 9% |
| Cash | € 61,046 | € 23,427 | € 20,253 | € 21,411 | ▲ 6% |
| Retained profit | € -4,506,217 | € -4,702,630 | € -5,256,176 | € -5,337,918 | ▼ € 81,742 |
| Bank debt | € 786,486 | € 818,087 | € 666,626 | € 630,507 | ▼ 5% |
| Balance sheet total | € 2,623,985 | € 2,484,228 | € 2,313,294 | € 1,938,723 | ▼ 16% |
| Employees (FTE) | 5.2 | 3.8 | 1.4 | 0 | ▼ 1.4 |
Key figures of MERCURY TRADING, fiscal years 2021 to 2024, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.The annual account for fiscal year 2025 has not been filed yet; it was expected before 31 July 2026.
What happened to MERCURY TRADING?
What happened at MERCURY TRADING in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2024: loss of € 81,742. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Knokke-Heist. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 475,249 loss in 2021 to € 81,742 loss in 2024.
Paid € 549 in corporate taxes since 2021.
On average € 36,200 of value added per employee in 2023.
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De Lijn 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025
filed on 8 June 2026
What was left
€ 20 k ▼ 91%
Money in the bank
€ 178 k ▼ 98%
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NMBS 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left ▼ 80%
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Management
Behind MERCURY TRADING is Patrick Jonckheere. Patrick Jonckheere is also behind DELTA RENTING SERVICE.
Directors
According to the 2024 annual accounts
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Elizabetlaan 160 box -11
8300 Knokke-Heist
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Details
- Company number
- 0446.018.173
- VAT number
- BE 0446.018.173
- Registered office
- Elizabetlaan 160 bus -11, 8300 Knokke-Heist
- Names & denominations
- MERCURY TRADING
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 20 December 1991
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