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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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2024 and 2025.
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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 15 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
CAVE from Leuven, company number BE0455970472, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -25,807 after tax. For that financial year CAVE recorded a gross margin of € 726,442 and equity of € 582,040. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -329,669 to € -25,807. 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 March 2, 2026.
€ 582,040
▼ 4% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -25,807
▲ 92 % less loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 205,434
▼ 21% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -894,537.
People and assets in 2025
0.9
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 107,207
▲ 63% 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.
€ 2,149
▼ 67% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 6.1 million
▼ 3% vs 2024
€ 343,699 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 18 years.
€ 54,556
▲ 3% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 30,876
▲ 29% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 588,812 | € 536,662 | € 560,842 | € 726,442 | ▲ 30% |
| Profit after taxes | € 13,159 | € -704 | € -329,669 | € -25,807 | ▲ € 303,862 |
| Equity | € 938,219 | € 937,515 | € 607,846 | € 582,040 | ▼ 4% |
| Total debts | € 5,622,608 | € 5,552,344 | € 7,694,845 | € 7,488,451 | ▼ 3% |
| Cash | € 525,599 | € 320,991 | € 260,379 | € 205,434 | ▼ 21% |
| Land & buildings | € 5,845,046 | € 5,917,176 | € 7,868,116 | € 7,759,062 | ▼ 1% |
| Retained profit | € -538,358 | € -539,061 | € -868,730 | € -894,537 | ▼ € 25,807 |
| Dividend | € 10,000 | € 0 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Bank debt | € 4,755,335 | € 4,592,790 | € 6,246,149 | € 6,068,871 | ▼ 3% |
| Balance sheet total | € 6,646,931 | € 6,573,350 | € 8,377,230 | € 8,127,988 | ▼ 3% |
| Employees (FTE) | 1.6 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.9 |
Key figures of CAVE, fiscal years 2022 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2026) expected before 1 February 2027.
What happened to CAVE?
What happened at CAVE in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Edith VANDENWEGHE stepped down as director. NBB
- Carlo Ackermans stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 25,807. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Edith VANDENWEGHE became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Leuven. KBO
- Carlo Ackermans became a director. NBB
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 13,159 profit in 2022 to € 25,807 loss in 2025.
Paid € 18,706 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 13,159 profit.
On average € 368,000 of value added per employee in 2022.
Management
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Edith VANDENWEGHE
Director
since 2022 · until 2028
since 2004 · until 2028
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Brusselsestraat 120
3000 Leuven
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0455.970.472
- VAT number
- BE 0455.970.472
- Registered office
- Brusselsestraat 120, 3000 Leuven
- Names & denominations
- CAVE
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 11 September 1995
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 16 Dec 2024
- Activities · NACE
Activiteiten van holdings
Verhuur en exploitatie van eigen of geleased residentieel onroerend goed, exclusief sociale woningen
Managementactiviteiten van holdings
Detailhandel in kranten en andere tijdschriften
Holdings
Detailhandel in kranten en kantoorbehoeften in gespecialiseerde winkels