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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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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 41 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 5 to 3.5.
Financials
Financial year 2025
ARMA from Herk-de-Stad, company number BE0456787351, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 947 after tax. For that financial year ARMA recorded a gross margin of € 236,672 and equity of € 372,271. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 54,873 to € 947. The company is profitable. 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 June 10, 2026.
€ 372,271
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 947
▼ 98% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 64,490
▼ 29% 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 € 224,665.
People and assets in 2025
3.5
▼ 0.3 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 106,798
▼ 13% vs 2024
€ 30,500 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.
Debts at end 2025
€ 333,264
▼ 22% vs 2024
€ 83,463 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 4 years.
€ 60,087
▼ 14% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 37,355
▼ 12% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 314,763 | € 345,495 | € 337,035 | € 236,672 | ▼ 30% |
| Profit after taxes | € 7,828 | € 34,644 | € 54,873 | € 947 | ▼ 98% |
| Equity | € 281,806 | € 316,450 | € 371,323 | € 372,271 | |
| Total debts | € 795,002 | € 671,901 | € 591,828 | € 482,243 | ▼ 19% |
| Cash | € 56,699 | € 76,963 | € 90,882 | € 64,490 | ▼ 29% |
| Land & buildings | € 724,378 | € 681,593 | € 655,893 | € 616,903 | ▼ 6% |
| Retained profit | € 134,201 | € 168,845 | € 223,718 | € 224,665 | |
| Bank debt | € 588,076 | € 528,664 | € 428,561 | € 333,264 | ▼ 22% |
| Balance sheet total | € 1,076,808 | € 988,351 | € 963,151 | € 854,513 | ▼ 11% |
| Employees (FTE) | 5 | 5 | 3.8 | 3.5 | ▼ 0.3 |
Key figures of ARMA, 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 ARMA?
What happened at ARMA in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 947 (▼ 98% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Herk-de-Stad. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 7,828 profit in 2022 to € 947 profit in 2025.
Paid € 44,774 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 54,873 profit.
On average € 67,600 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
Behind ARMA is Jean-Libert Abrams.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Jean-Libert Abrams
Director
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Sint-Jorislaan 188
3540 Herk-de-Stad
Sint-Jorislaan 186
3540 Herk-de-Stad
Active since 9 February 1996
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0456.787.351
- VAT number
- BE 0456.787.351
- Registered office
- Sint-Jorislaan 188, 3540 Herk-de-Stad
- Names & denominations
- ARMA
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 10 January 1996
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 1 Aug 2023
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