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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2024 and 2025.
Financials
Financial year 2025
AERTS from Herk-de-Stad, company number BE0450379908, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -21,992 after tax. For that financial year AERTS recorded a gross margin of € 410,348 and equity of € 338,829. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -48,732 to € -21,992. The company made a loss. The company holds a healthy buffer. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on June 29, 2026.
€ 338,829
▼ 6% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -21,992
▲ 55 % less loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 107,167
▼ 27% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 320,229.
People and assets in 2025
4.7
▲ 1 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 162,853
▲ 25% vs 2024
€ 34,600 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.
€ 398,058
▼ 27% vs 2024
Of which on lease € 135,681.
Debts at end 2025
€ 444,917
▼ 27% vs 2024
€ 160,292 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 3 years.
€ 44,853
▼ 12% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 22,185
▲ 30% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 233,074 | € 320,982 | € 317,132 | € 410,348 | ▲ 29% |
| Profit after taxes | € 20,775 | € -34,873 | € -48,732 | € -21,992 | ▲ € 26,740 |
| Equity | € 474,426 | € 409,553 | € 360,821 | € 338,829 | ▼ 6% |
| Total debts | € 785,766 | € 697,864 | € 762,242 | € 525,522 | ▼ 31% |
| Cash | € 90,588 | € 139,195 | € 146,506 | € 107,167 | ▼ 27% |
| Land & buildings | - | - | € 5,632 | € 5,059 | ▼ 10% |
| Retained profit | € 455,826 | € 390,953 | € 342,221 | € 320,229 | ▼ 6% |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 30,000 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Bank debt | € 500,459 | € 454,793 | € 611,295 | € 444,917 | ▼ 27% |
| Balance sheet total | € 1,267,971 | € 1,107,416 | € 1,123,063 | € 864,351 | ▼ 23% |
| Employees (FTE) | 3.4 | 4 | 3.7 | 4.7 | ▲ 1 |
Key figures of AERTS, 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 AERTS?
What happened at AERTS in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 21,992. Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Herk-de-Stad. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 20,775 profit in 2022 to € 21,992 loss in 2025.
Paid € 11,118 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 20,775 profit.
On average € 87,300 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
Behind AERTS are Nick Aerts and Stephanie Clerx.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Nick Aerts
Director
Stephanie Clerx
Director
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Sint-Truidersteenweg 173
3540 Herk-de-Stad
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0450.379.908
- VAT number
- BE 0450.379.908
- Registered office
- Sint-Truidersteenweg 173, 3540 Herk-de-Stad
- Names & denominations
- AERTS
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 17 June 1993
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 13 Aug 2026
- Activities · NACE
Goederenvervoer over de weg
Bouwrijp maken van terreinen
Kappers- en barbiersactiviteiten
Schoonheidsverzorging en andere schoonheidsbehandelingen
Schoonheidsverzorging
Haarverzorging