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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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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2024 and 2025.
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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 18 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
MERTES HANDELSGESELLSCHAFT from Amel, company number BE0446178224, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -96,680 after tax. For that financial year MERTES HANDELSGESELLSCHAFT recorded a gross margin of € 136,215 and equity of € 428,460. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -12,053 to € -96,680. The company made a loss. The company holds a healthy buffer. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on August 31, 2026.
€ 428,460
▼ 18% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -96,680
▼ 702 % more loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 31,375
▼ 42% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 216,066.
People and assets in 2025
€ 79,094
▼ 29% vs 2024
Payroll staff only. What the director pays themselves is already netted into the gross margin and is not shown separately in the accounts.
€ 265,941
▼ 15% vs 2024
Of which on lease € 264,400.
Debts at end 2025
€ 981,870
▼ 6% vs 2024
€ 75,314 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 7 years.
€ 45,843
▼ 39% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 7,910
▼ 75% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 223,223 | € 249,125 | € 240,161 | € 136,215 | ▼ 43% |
| Profit after taxes | € 3,340 | € -3,225 | € -12,053 | € -96,680 | ▼ € 84,627 |
| Equity | € 540,419 | € 537,194 | € 525,141 | € 428,460 | ▼ 18% |
| Total debts | € 1,874,164 | € 1,956,382 | € 1,584,303 | € 1,439,052 | ▼ 9% |
| Cash | € 48,221 | € 37,918 | € 54,050 | € 31,375 | ▼ 42% |
| Retained profit | € 328,024 | € 324,799 | € 312,746 | € 216,066 | ▼ 31% |
| Bank debt | € 1,112,436 | € 994,627 | € 1,043,061 | € 981,870 | ▼ 6% |
| Balance sheet total | € 2,414,582 | € 2,493,575 | € 2,109,444 | € 1,867,512 | ▼ 11% |
Key figures of MERTES HANDELSGESELLSCHAFT, 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 MERTES HANDELSGESELLSCHAFT?
What happened at MERTES HANDELSGESELLSCHAFT in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 96,680. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
- New establishment in Amel. KBO
In short
From € 3,340 profit in 2022 to € 96,680 loss in 2025.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 3,340 profit.
Management
Behind MERTES HANDELSGESELLSCHAFT is Franz-Joseph MERTES.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Franz-Joseph MERTES
Manager
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Wereth,Hauptstraße 56
4770 Amel
Wereth 12
4771 Amel
Active since 21 January 1991
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0446.178.224
- VAT number
- BE 0446.178.224
- Registered office
- Wereth,Hauptstraße 56, 4770 Amel
- Names & denominations
- MERTES HANDELSGESELLSCHAFT
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 30 December 1991
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 28 Jan 2026
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