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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 12 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
ECO - COLORS from Kontich, company number BE0450874212, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -1,313 after tax. For that financial year ECO - COLORS recorded a gross margin of € 231,348 and equity of € 81,126. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -1,152 to € -1,313. The company made a loss. The company holds a healthy buffer. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on June 25, 2026.
€ 81,126
▼ 2% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -1,313
▼ 14 % more loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 51,356
▲ 112% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 19,126.
People and assets in 2025
3
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 164,687
▲ 2% vs 2024
€ 54,900 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.
€ 28,431
▼ 21% vs 2024
Of which on lease € 26,840.
Debts at end 2025
€ 645,910
▲ 20% vs 2024
€ 115,472 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 2 years.
€ 105,024
▲ 20% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 41,204
▲ 12% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 246,515 | € 212,181 | € 223,934 | € 231,348 | ▲ 3% |
| Profit after taxes | € 11,537 | € 3,977 | € -1,152 | € -1,313 | ▼ € 161 |
| Equity | € 79,614 | € 83,592 | € 82,439 | € 81,126 | ▼ 2% |
| Total debts | € 680,120 | € 666,352 | € 723,728 | € 835,218 | ▲ 15% |
| Cash | € 5,964 | € 9,451 | € 24,216 | € 51,356 | ▲ 112% |
| Land & buildings | € 80,670 | € 80,778 | € 79,224 | € 78,373 | ▼ 1% |
| Retained profit | € 17,614 | € 21,592 | € 20,439 | € 19,126 | ▼ 6% |
| Bank debt | € 420,308 | € 520,118 | € 538,559 | € 645,910 | ▲ 20% |
| Balance sheet total | € 759,735 | € 749,944 | € 806,167 | € 916,344 | ▲ 14% |
| Employees (FTE) | 3.8 | 3.3 | 3 | 3 |
Key figures of ECO - COLORS, 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 ECO - COLORS?
What happened at ECO - COLORS in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Ludo Jules K Dockx stepped down as director. NBB
- Nicky Dockx stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 1,313. Source: NBB ↗
- Ludo Jules K Dockx became a director. NBB
- Nicky Dockx became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Kontich. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 11,537 profit in 2022 to € 1,313 loss in 2025.
Paid € 13,071 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 11,537 profit.
On average € 77,100 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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NMBS 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left ▼ 80%
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Management
The stake of DL Paints comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
ECO - COLORSThe shares are held by DL Paints (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Ludo Jules K Dockx
Managing director
since 2012 · until 2029
Nicky Dockx
Managing director
since 2012 · until 2029
Shareholders
100%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Duffelsesteenweg 156
2550 Kontich
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
- 0450.874.212
- VAT number
- BE 0450.874.212
- Registered office
- Duffelsesteenweg 156, 2550 Kontich
- Names & denominations
- ECO - COLORS
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 9 September 1993
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 16 Jan 2026
- Activities · NACE
Vervaardiging van verf, vernis ed, drukinkt en mastiek
Vervaardiging van verf, vernis e.d., drukinkt en mastiek
Groothandel in reinigingsmiddelen
Groothandel in behang en onderhoudsproducten
Groothandel in bouwmaterialen, algemeen assortiment
Detailhandel in drogisterijartikelen en onderhoudsproducten
Detailhandel in ijzerwaren, bouwmaterialen, verf en glas (algemeen assortiment)
Groothandel in verf, vernis en bouwmaterialen, inclusief sanitair
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