Financials
Financial year 2025
KAREL WILLEMS from Tessenderlo-Ham, company number BE0461134634, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 185,970 after tax. For that financial year KAREL WILLEMS recorded a gross margin of € 1.2 million and equity of € 1.3 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 3,230 to € 185,970. 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 June 1, 2026.
€ 1.3 million
▲ 17% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 185,970
▲ € 182,740 vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 79,093
▼ 57% 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 € 1.2 million.
People and assets in 2025
11.6
▲ 2.2 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 714,876
▲ 35% vs 2024
€ 61,600 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.
€ 570,266
▼ 3% vs 2024
Of which on lease € 407,617.
Debts at end 2025
€ 125,671
▼ 59% vs 2024
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 317,409
▼ 40% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 79,127
▼ 59% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 1,176,002 | € 1,023,784 | € 749,763 | € 1,221,738 | ▲ 63% |
| Profit after taxes | € 225,493 | € 139,429 | € 3,230 | € 185,970 | ▲ € 182,740 |
| Equity | € 955,205 | € 1,094,633 | € 1,097,864 | € 1,283,834 | ▲ 17% |
| Total debts | € 1,919,121 | € 1,524,084 | € 1,164,861 | € 568,738 | ▼ 51% |
| Cash | € 35,187 | € 100,874 | € 183,081 | € 79,093 | ▼ 57% |
| Retained profit | € 838,205 | € 977,633 | € 980,864 | € 1,166,834 | ▲ 19% |
| Bank debt | € 903,748 | € 689,726 | € 305,646 | € 125,671 | ▼ 59% |
| Balance sheet total | € 2,874,325 | € 2,618,717 | € 2,262,724 | € 1,852,572 | ▼ 18% |
| Employees (FTE) | 13.2 | 11 | 9.4 | 11.6 | ▲ 2.2 |
Key figures of KAREL WILLEMS, 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 KAREL WILLEMS?
What happened at KAREL WILLEMS in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Gvr Construct BV stepped down as director. NBB
- EKMW BV stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 185,970 (▲ € 182,740 vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Gvr Construct BV became a director. NBB
- EKMW BV became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Tessenderlo-Ham. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 225,493 profit in 2022 to € 185,970 profit in 2025.
Paid € 189,340 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 225,493 profit.
On average € 105,300 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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Management
The stake of EKMW, WILMAR comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
KAREL WILLEMSThe shares are held by EKMW (100%) and WILMAR (49%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Managing director · represented by Gijs Vercruyssen
since 2025 · until 2031
Managing director · represented by Emiel Willems
since 2025 · until 2031
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Industrieweg (H) 51
3980 Tessenderlo-Ham
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
- 0461.134.634
- VAT number
- BE 0461.134.634
- Registered office
- Industrieweg (H) 51, 3980 Tessenderlo-Ham
- Names & denominations
- KAREL WILLEMS
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 14 July 1997
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 18 Nov 2025
- Activities · NACE
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