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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 4.1 to 3.5.
Financials
Financial year 2025
ARENA COMET from Lokeren, company number BE0461279837, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 215,240 after tax. For that financial year ARENA COMET recorded a gross margin of € 724,218 and equity of € 2.4 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 198,283 to € 215,240. Profitable, and profit is growing. The company holds a healthy buffer. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on July 17, 2026.
€ 2.4 million
▼ 7% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 215,240
▲ 9% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 313,158
▼ 70% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 400,000 paid out
More than the year’s profit went to the shareholders; reserves fell.
People and assets in 2025
3.5
▼ 0.1 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 336,212
€ 96,100 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.
€ 65,573
▲ 115% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 10,015
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 357,584
▼ 50% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 39,888
▼ 45% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 652,537 | € 738,068 | € 656,764 | € 724,218 | ▲ 10% |
| Profit after taxes | € 212,904 | € 230,331 | € 198,283 | € 215,240 | ▲ 9% |
| Equity | € 2,147,145 | € 2,377,477 | € 2,575,759 | € 2,390,999 | ▼ 7% |
| Total debts | € 877,166 | € 1,420,835 | € 967,294 | € 719,507 | ▼ 26% |
| Cash | € 323,613 | € 575,778 | € 1,061,101 | € 313,158 | ▼ 70% |
| Land & buildings | € 16,780 | € 47,702 | € 35,895 | € 30,792 | ▼ 14% |
| Retained profit | € 1,997,145 | € 2,227,477 | € 2,425,759 | € 2,240,999 | ▼ 8% |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 0 | € 0 | € 400,000 | |
| Bank debt | € 4,826 | € 12,686 | € 10,038 | € 10,015 | |
| Balance sheet total | € 3,024,311 | € 3,798,312 | € 3,543,054 | € 3,110,506 | ▼ 12% |
| Employees (FTE) | 3.3 | 4.1 | 3.6 | 3.5 | ▼ 0.1 |
Key figures of ARENA COMET, 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 ARENA COMET?
What happened at ARENA COMET in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Jochen Liebaert stepped down as director. NBB
- Annemie Huysegoms stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 215,240 (▲ 9% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Arena Comet Group NV stepped down as director. NBB
- Jochen Liebaert became a director. NBB
- Annemie Huysegoms became a director. NBB
- Arena Comet Group NV became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Lokeren. KBO
In short
From € 212,904 profit in 2022 to € 215,240 profit in 2025.
Paid € 319,347 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 230,331 profit.
On average € 206,900 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of ARENA COMET GROUP comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
ARENA COMETThe shares are held by ARENA COMET GROUP (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Annemie Huysegoms
Managing director
Also active at: HUYSCO, ARENA INOS, ARENA COMET GROUP, ARENA INVEST
since 2022 · until 2028
since 2023 · until 2029
Director · represented by Dries Van Meirhaeghe
since 2022 · until 2025
Shareholders
100%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Spieveldstraat 7
9160 Lokeren
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 5 companies are registered at this address.
All companies at this address →What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0461.279.837
- VAT number
- BE 0461.279.837
- Registered office
- Spieveldstraat 7, 9160 Lokeren
- Names & denominations
- ARENA COMET
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 22 August 1997
- Peppol
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