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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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Negative equity NBB
More debt than assets in 2 of the last 4 fiscal years.
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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 44 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
ESCAPE from Antwerpen, company number BE0461600630, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -37,635 after tax. For that financial year ESCAPE recorded a gross margin of € 190,686 and equity of € -102,519. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -100,396 to € -37,635. The company made a loss. More debts than assets. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on December 18, 2025.
€ -102,519
▼ € 37,635 vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -37,635
▲ 63 % less loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 2,696
▼ 79% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -164,493.
People and assets in 2025
€ 93,706
▲ 3% 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.
€ 76,461
▼ 29% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 599,735
▼ 11% vs 2024
€ 73,291 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 8 years.
€ 40,643
▲ 28% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 21,804
▲ 33% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 200,984 | € 222,544 | € 135,288 | € 190,686 | ▲ 41% |
| Profit after taxes | € 5,474 | € 5,612 | € -100,396 | € -37,635 | ▲ € 62,761 |
| Equity | € 29,899 | € 35,511 | € -64,885 | € -102,519 | ▼ € 37,635 |
| Total debts | € 753,113 | € 850,150 | € 724,009 | € 662,181 | ▼ 9% |
| Cash | € 5,788 | € 10,758 | € 13,018 | € 2,696 | ▼ 79% |
| Land & buildings | € 648,792 | € 570,309 | € 491,825 | € 413,342 | ▼ 16% |
| Retained profit | € -32,075 | € -26,462 | € -126,858 | € -164,493 | ▼ € 37,635 |
| Bank debt | € 684,458 | € 732,733 | € 675,486 | € 599,735 | ▼ 11% |
| Balance sheet total | € 783,011 | € 885,661 | € 659,124 | € 559,662 | ▼ 15% |
Key figures of ESCAPE, fiscal years 2022 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2026) expected before 30 April 2027.
What happened to ESCAPE?
What happened at ESCAPE in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Christophe De Cleene stepped down as director. NBB
- Inge Clauwaert stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 37,635. Source: NBB ↗
- Christophe De Cleene became a director. NBB
- Inge Clauwaert became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Schilde. KBO
- New establishment in Antwerpen. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 5,474 profit in 2022 to € 37,635 loss in 2025.
Paid € 11,601 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 5,612 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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NMBS 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left ▼ 80%
bpost 18 May 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left from loss to profit
Management
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
since 2021 · until 2027
Inge Clauwaert
Director
since 2021 · until 2027
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Adriaan Brouwerstraat 27
2000 Antwerpen
De Zevenster 33
2970 Schilde
Active since 31 March 2011
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Details
- Company number
- 0461.600.630
- VAT number
- BE 0461.600.630
- Registered office
- Adriaan Brouwerstraat 27, 2000 Antwerpen
- Names & denominations
- ESCAPE
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 6 October 1997
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 13 Oct 2025
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