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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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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2024 and 2025.
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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 45 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
CHARL'S from Knokke-Heist, company number BE0462144226, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -177,517 after tax. For that financial year CHARL'S recorded a gross margin of € 774,904 and equity of € 142,308. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -94,172 to € -177,517. The company made a loss. The buffer shrank hard: equity is 56 % below last year. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on July 8, 2026.
€ 142,308
▼ 56% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -177,517
▼ 89 % more loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 98,298
▼ 59% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -53,692.
People and assets in 2025
16.8
▲ 5.1 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 904,776
▲ 24% vs 2024
€ 53,900 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.
€ 15,950
▼ 42% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
None
No bank loans on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 162,593
▲ 21% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 80,975
▲ 18% 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 | € 787,158 | € 740,333 | € 681,921 | € 774,904 | ▲ 14% |
| Profit after taxes | € -34,022 | € -116,004 | € -94,172 | € -177,517 | ▼ € 83,344 |
| Equity | € 530,002 | € 413,998 | € 319,825 | € 142,308 | ▼ 56% |
| Total debts | € 242,379 | € 215,544 | € 203,911 | € 343,568 | ▲ 68% |
| Cash | € 492,640 | € 365,615 | € 239,537 | € 98,298 | ▼ 59% |
| Land & buildings | € 65,797 | € 78,561 | € 53,024 | € 122,602 | ▲ 131% |
| Retained profit | € 334,002 | € 217,998 | € 123,825 | € -53,692 | ▼ € 177,517 |
| Balance sheet total | € 772,381 | € 629,542 | € 523,736 | € 485,876 | ▼ 7% |
| Employees (FTE) | 14.7 | 14.3 | 11.7 | 16.8 | ▲ 5.1 |
Key figures of CHARL'S, 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 CHARL'S?
What happened at CHARL'S in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Dimver NV stepped down as director. NBB
- JGJ Invest NV stepped down as director. NBB
- Martina Versele stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 177,517. Source: NBB ↗
- Dimver NV became a director. NBB
- JGJ Invest NV became a director. NBB
- Martina Versele became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Knokke-Heist. KBO
In short
From € 34,022 loss in 2022 to € 177,517 loss in 2025.
On average € 46,100 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
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Managing director · represented by Vermeersch Dimitri
Also active at: MST ESTATE, ASTRIDCENTER, FLANDERS HOTEL HOLDING, SERWIR RENARDEAU, DINER PRIVÉ, AUBERGE DU PECHEUR, GOSSET HOTEL
since 2024 · until 2030
Director · represented by Vermeersch Serge
Also active at: ASTRIDCENTER, FLANDERS HOTEL HOLDING, SERWIR RENARDEAU, DINER PRIVÉ, AUBERGE DU PECHEUR, GOSSET HOTEL, GHENTIMMO, WHITEWOOD INVESTORS +3 more
since 2024 · until 2030
since 2024 · until 2030
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Kalvekeetdijk 137
8300 Knokke-Heist
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 2 companies are registered at this address.
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Hosting & Email
Email provider
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Website info
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Details
- Company number
- 0462.144.226
- VAT number
- BE 0462.144.226
- Registered office
- Kalvekeetdijk 137, 8300 Knokke-Heist
- Names & denominations
- CHARL'S
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 17 December 1997
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 27 Mar 2026
- Contact
- charls.be
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