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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 1 of the last 4 fiscal years.
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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 59 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 8.8 to 2.7.
Financials
Financial year 2025
GENTLE from Heusden-Zolder, company number BE0450125629, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -183,724 after tax. For that financial year GENTLE recorded a gross margin of € 66,391 and equity of € -155,528. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -142,428 to € -183,724. 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 March 31, 2026.
€ -155,528
▼ € 183,724 vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -183,724
▼ 29 % more loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 9,075
▼ 61% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -417,528.
People and assets in 2025
2.7
▼ 4.3 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 144,649
▼ 62% vs 2024
€ 53,600 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.
€ 14,036
▼ 52% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 477,187
▼ 10% vs 2024
€ 32,526 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 2 years.
€ 506,540
▲ 31% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 4,075
▼ 88% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 664,434 | € 498,375 | € 340,497 | € 66,391 | ▼ 81% |
| Profit after taxes | € 7,550 | € 6,878 | € -142,428 | € -183,724 | ▼ € 41,297 |
| Equity | € 163,746 | € 170,625 | € 28,197 | € -155,528 | ▼ € 183,724 |
| Total debts | € 773,200 | € 941,512 | € 1,003,418 | € 1,104,701 | ▲ 10% |
| Cash | € 167,249 | € 132,500 | € 23,429 | € 9,075 | ▼ 61% |
| Retained profit | € -98,254 | € -91,375 | € -233,803 | € -417,528 | ▼ € 183,724 |
| Bank debt | € 518,419 | € 590,320 | € 532,109 | € 477,187 | ▼ 10% |
| Balance sheet total | € 936,947 | € 1,112,137 | € 1,031,615 | € 949,174 | ▼ 8% |
| Employees (FTE) | 10.4 | 8.8 | 7 | 2.7 | ▼ 4.3 |
Key figures of GENTLE, fiscal years 2022 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2026) expected before 30 April 2027.
What happened to GENTLE?
What happened at GENTLE in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 183,724. Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Knokke-Heist. KBO
- New establishment in Hasselt. KBO
- New establishment in Heusden-Zolder. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 7,550 profit in 2022 to € 183,724 loss in 2025.
Paid € 64,377 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 7,550 profit.
On average € 24,600 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of HOUSE OF PRINTING comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
GENTLEBehind GENTLE is Swiatek CS Consulting BV. The shares are held by HOUSE OF PRINTING (38.4%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Simon Swiatek
Shareholders
38.4%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Pastoor Ballingsstraat 41
3550 Heusden-Zolder
Hendrik van Veldekesingel 150
3500 Hasselt
Active since 1 May 2007
Zeedijk-Knokke 732 box 101
8300 Knokke-Heist
Active since 1 April 2019
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 1 companies are registered at this address.
All companies at this address →What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0450.125.629
- VAT number
- BE 0450.125.629
- Registered office
- Pastoor Ballingsstraat 41, 3550 Heusden-Zolder
- Names & denominations
- GENTLE
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 13 May 1993
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 28 Nov 2024
- Contact
- [email protected] 011/458700
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