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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 45 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Financials
Financial year 2025
GENTS ECOLOGISCH CENTRUM from Gent, company number BE0461342490, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 7,131 after tax. For that financial year GENTS ECOLOGISCH CENTRUM recorded a gross margin of € 93,831 and equity of € 295,337. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 7,910 to € 7,131. The company is profitable. The buffer is growing. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on December 29, 2025.
€ 295,337
▲ 1% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 7,131
▼ 10% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 26,492
▲ 11% 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 € -24,763.
Debts at end 2025
€ 1.1 million
▼ 6% vs 2024
€ 57,080 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 18 years.
€ 4,778
▲ 22% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 76,414 | € 83,372 | € 96,491 | € 93,831 | ▼ 3% |
| Profit after taxes | € -1,489 | € -1,471 | € 7,910 | € 7,131 | ▼ 10% |
| Equity | € 163,838 | € 283,117 | € 291,027 | € 295,337 | ▲ 1% |
| Total debts | € 827,792 | € 1,203,607 | € 1,144,203 | € 1,079,344 | ▼ 6% |
| Cash | € 40,759 | € 18,609 | € 23,960 | € 26,492 | ▲ 11% |
| Land & buildings | € 929,449 | € 1,396,276 | € 1,341,244 | € 1,287,360 | ▼ 4% |
| Retained profit | € -38,662 | € -40,133 | € -32,223 | € -24,763 | ▲ € 7,460 |
| Bank debt | € 816,301 | € 1,191,932 | € 1,127,761 | € 1,062,497 | ▼ 6% |
| Balance sheet total | € 991,630 | € 1,486,724 | € 1,435,230 | € 1,374,681 | ▼ 4% |
Key figures of GENTS ECOLOGISCH CENTRUM, 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 March 2027.
What happened to GENTS ECOLOGISCH CENTRUM?
What happened at GENTS ECOLOGISCH CENTRUM in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 7,131 (▼ 10% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Frédéric Ancion stepped down as director. NBB
- Godelieve De Kinder became a director. NBB
- Kaj Zwerver became a director. NBB
- Marc Bontemps became a director. NBB
- Frédéric Ancion became a director. NBB
- Vlaamse Reizigersbond became a director. NBB
- Oxfam WereldWinkel Gent-Sint-Pieters vzw became a director. NBB
In short
From € 1,489 loss in 2022 to € 7,131 profit in 2025.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 7,910 profit.
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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 Lekker GEC comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
GENTS ECOLOGISCH CENTRUMBehind GENTS ECOLOGISCH CENTRUM are Lekker Gec cvbaso, Gents Milieu Front, Marc Bontemps, Vlaamse Reizigersbond, Catapa vzw and Kaj Zwerver. The shares are held by Lekker GEC (19.5%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director
since 2014
Director
since 2001
since 2024
Director
since 2020
Director
since 2014
Kaj Zwerver
Director
since 2024
since 2020
Director
since 2020
Godelieve De Kinder
Director
since 2025
Frédéric Ancion
Director
since 2022 · until 2025
Shareholders
19.5%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Koningin Maria Hendrikaplein 5-6
9000 Gent
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Details
- Company number
- 0461.342.490
- VAT number
- BE 0461.342.490
- Registered office
- Koningin Maria Hendrikaplein 5-6, 9000 Gent
- Names & denominations
- GENTS ECOLOGISCH CENTRUM · GEC
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Cooperative company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 28 August 1997
- Peppol
- Not registered