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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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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 7.9 to 3.8.
Financials
Financial year 2025
LIGHT UNIT from Leuven, company number BE0453774017, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 32,561 after tax. For that financial year LIGHT UNIT recorded a gross margin of € 269,941 and equity of € 786,455. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -45,237 to € 32,561. Profitable, and profit is growing. The buffer is growing. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on November 29, 2025.
€ 786,455
▲ 4% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 32,561
▲ still € 45,237 loss in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 12,249
▼ 21% 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 € 765,880.
People and assets in 2025
3.8
▼ 2.5 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 142,849
▼ 53% vs 2024
€ 37,600 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.
€ 39,196
▼ 18% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 465,086
▼ 5% vs 2024
€ 41,126 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 3 years.
€ 412,795
▼ 7% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 78,052
▼ 26% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2021 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 359,487 | € 581,747 | € 381,472 | € 269,941 | ▼ 29% |
| Profit after taxes | € 339 | € -21,903 | € -45,237 | € 32,561 | ▲ € 77,799 |
| Equity | € 821,034 | € 799,131 | € 753,894 | € 786,455 | ▲ 4% |
| Total debts | € 1,451,651 | € 1,215,223 | € 1,179,894 | € 1,147,014 | ▼ 3% |
| Cash | € 55,578 | € 22,434 | € 15,499 | € 12,249 | ▼ 21% |
| Land & buildings | € 248,128 | € 301,103 | € 262,910 | € 224,556 | ▼ 15% |
| Retained profit | € 800,459 | € 778,556 | € 733,319 | € 765,880 | ▲ 4% |
| Bank debt | € 430,742 | € 348,034 | € 487,928 | € 465,086 | ▼ 5% |
| Balance sheet total | € 2,272,685 | € 2,014,354 | € 1,933,788 | € 1,933,470 | |
| Employees (FTE) | 7.5 | 7.9 | 6.3 | 3.8 | ▼ 2.5 |
Key figures of LIGHT UNIT, fiscal years 2021 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2026) expected before 31 October 2026.
What happened to LIGHT UNIT?
What happened at LIGHT UNIT in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 32,561. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Lovalumen BVBA became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Leuven. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 339 profit in 2021 to € 32,561 profit in 2025.
Paid € 23,077 in corporate taxes since 2021.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 32,561 profit.
On average € 71,000 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%
bpost 18 May 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left from loss to profit
Management
The stake of Lovalumen comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
LIGHT UNITBehind LIGHT UNIT is Lovalumen BVBA. The shares are held by Lovalumen (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
since 2012
Shareholders
100%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Naamsesteenweg 158
3001 Leuven
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
- 0453.774.017
- VAT number
- BE 0453.774.017
- Registered office
- Naamsesteenweg 158, 3001 Leuven
- Names & denominations
- LIGHT UNIT
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 2 November 1994
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