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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 32 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
KNEL from Leuven, company number BE0452617143, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -215,427 after tax. For that financial year KNEL recorded a gross margin of € 319,197 and equity of € 30,918. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 26,786 to € -215,427. The company made a loss. The buffer shrank hard: equity is 87 % below last year. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on July 31, 2026.
€ 30,918
▼ 87% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -215,427
▼ still € 26,786 profit in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 31,241
▼ 80% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 18,524.
People and assets in 2025
€ 453,780
▲ 39% 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.
€ 54,605
▼ 25% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 67,400
▼ 2% vs 2024
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 73,818
▲ 48% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 21,322
▲ 25% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 237,515 | € 428,648 | € 428,593 | € 319,197 | ▼ 26% |
| Profit after taxes | € -51,562 | € 115,900 | € 26,786 | € -215,427 | ▼ € 242,213 |
| Equity | € 103,660 | € 219,560 | € 246,345 | € 30,918 | ▼ 87% |
| Total debts | € 211,695 | € 168,425 | € 186,891 | € 212,417 | ▲ 14% |
| Cash | € 88,863 | € 128,788 | € 158,536 | € 31,241 | ▼ 80% |
| Retained profit | € 91,265 | € 207,165 | € 233,951 | € 18,524 | ▼ 92% |
| Bank debt | € 67,400 | € 79,111 | € 69,081 | € 67,400 | ▼ 2% |
| Balance sheet total | € 326,861 | € 395,112 | € 436,553 | € 243,493 | ▼ 44% |
Key figures of KNEL, 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 KNEL?
What happened at KNEL in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 215,427 (▼ € 242,213 vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Leuven. KBO
- New establishment in Leuven. KBO
- New establishment in Leuven. KBO
- New establishment in Leuven. KBO
- LUK BURSENS became a director. NBB
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 51,562 loss in 2022 to € 215,427 loss in 2025.
Paid € 7,779 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 115,900 profit.
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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
Behind KNEL are GERT TOSSYN, HUBERT MERGELSBERG and LUK BURSENS. HUBERT MERGELSBERG is also behind RAVAGE. LUK BURSENS is also behind WINTERSPORTCENTRUM - LEUVEN.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
GERT TOSSYN
Director
since 1994
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Oude Markt 44 box 1
3000 Leuven
Mechelsestraat 51
3000 Leuven
Active since 8 August 1994
Oude Markt 44 box 0.01
3000 Leuven
Active since 15 November 2001
Goudsbloemstraat 28
3000 Leuven
Active since 1 February 2002
Parijsstraat 34
3000 Leuven
Active since 30 April 2007
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
- 0452.617.143
- VAT number
- BE 0452.617.143
- Registered office
- Oude Markt 44 bus 1, 3000 Leuven
- Names & denominations
- KNEL
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 26 April 1994
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 1 Jan 2001
- Activities · NACE
Cafés en bars
Cafés