Warning lights
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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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 30 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Legal situation KBO
Opening faillissement according to the CBE.
Financials
Financial year 2025
ENTREPRISES GENERALES E. COLLETTE ET FILS from Mettet, company number BE0450465426, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 156,354 after tax. For that financial year ENTREPRISES GENERALES E. COLLETTE ET FILS recorded a gross margin of € 271,827 and equity of € -173,426. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -116,993 to € 156,354. Profitable, and profit is growing. 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 April 1, 2026.
€ -173,426
▲ € 156,354 vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 156,354
▲ still € 116,993 loss in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 5,183
▼ 4% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Stays in the company
No dividend for 2025. Retained profit grew to € -373,426.
People and assets in 2025
1
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 96,434
▼ 47% vs 2024
€ 96,400 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.
€ 7,525
▼ 57% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 179,551
▼ 26% vs 2024
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 81,890
▼ 70% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 95,598
▲ 130% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 296,557 | - | - | - | |
| Gross margin | € 81,422 | € 251,888 | € 81,269 | € 271,827 | ▲ 234% |
| Profit after taxes | € -81,684 | € -105,276 | € -116,993 | € 156,354 | ▲ € 273,347 |
| Equity | € -107,511 | € -212,788 | € -329,780 | € -173,426 | ▲ € 156,354 |
| Total debts | € 696,907 | € 750,988 | € 789,095 | € 623,372 | ▼ 21% |
| Cash | € 8,556 | € 46,224 | € 5,386 | € 5,183 | ▼ 4% |
| Land & buildings | € 29,200 | € 26,000 | € 22,800 | € 19,600 | ▼ 14% |
| Retained profit | € -307,511 | € -412,788 | € -529,780 | € -373,426 | ▲ € 156,354 |
| Bank debt | € 357,924 | € 312,630 | € 242,368 | € 179,551 | ▼ 26% |
| Balance sheet total | € 589,396 | € 538,200 | € 459,315 | € 449,946 | ▼ 2% |
| Employees (FTE) | 9.9 | - | - | 1 |
Key figures of ENTREPRISES GENERALES E. COLLETTE ET FILS, 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 January 2027.
What happened to ENTREPRISES GENERALES E. COLLETTE ET FILS?
What happened at ENTREPRISES GENERALES E. COLLETTE ET FILS in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
ENTREPRISES GENERALES E. COLLETTE ET FILS is active according to the CBE. Legal situation: Opening faillissement.
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 156,354. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Pascal COLLETTE stepped down as director. NBB
- Pol COLLETTE stepped down as director. NBB
- Pascal COLLETTE became a director. NBB
- Pol COLLETTE became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Mettet. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 81,684 loss in 2022 to € 156,354 profit in 2025.
Paid € 305 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 156,354 profit.
On average € 271,800 of value added per employee in 2025.
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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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Management
It owns TRADECOWALL, Société Générale de Cautionnement and RECYNAM itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Pascal COLLETTE
Managing director
since 2018 · until 2023
Pol COLLETTE
Director
since 2018 · until 2023
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Rue du Château, St-Gérard 9
5640 Mettet
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 1 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0450.465.426
- VAT number
- BE 0450.465.426
- Registered office
- Rue du Château, St-Gérard 9, 5640 Mettet
- Names & denominations
- ENTREPRISES GENERALES E. COLLETTE ET FILS
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Opening faillissement
- Start date
- 25 June 1993
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 18 Dec 2025
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