Warning lights
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 2025 and 2026.
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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 19 % of short-term debt in 2026; threshold 65 %.
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Busy address KBO
13 other companies have their registered office at the same address; threshold 10.
Financials
Financial year 2026
CLAES RETAIL GROUP from Houthalen-Helchteren, company number BE0462417806, closed financial year 2026 with a result of € -107,457 after tax. Compared with financial year 2025, the result moved from € -11,508 to € -107,457. The company made a loss. 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 September 29, 2026.
€ 53.1 million
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -107,457
▼ 834 % more loss than in 2025
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 42,562
▼ 60% vs 2025
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -40.5 million.
People and assets in 2026
56
▲ 0.8 vs 2025
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 4.7 million
▲ 1% vs 2025
€ 84,200 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.
€ 1,586
▲ € 1,322 vs 2025
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2026
€ 724,032
▼ 27% vs 2025
€ 263,282 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 3 years.
€ 747,538
▼ 42% vs 2025
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 50 days on average.
€ 760,901
▼ 1% vs 2025
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | Change 2025 → 2026 | |
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| Revenue | € 4,038,259 | € 2,003,838 | - | - | |
| Profit after taxes | € 124,180 | € -34,780 | € -11,508 | € -107,457 | ▼ € 95,949 |
| Equity | € 53,300,610 | € 53,265,830 | € 53,254,322 | € 53,146,865 | |
| Total debts | € 27,357,388 | € 26,238,049 | € 29,003,469 | € 33,237,632 | ▲ 15% |
| Cash | € 80,403 | € 66,288 | € 107,247 | € 42,562 | ▼ 60% |
| Retained profit | € -40,306,137 | € -40,340,917 | € -40,352,425 | € -40,459,882 | |
| Bank debt | € 755,730 | € 1,246,510 | € 987,313 | € 724,032 | ▼ 27% |
| Balance sheet total | € 80,657,998 | € 79,503,878 | € 82,257,791 | € 86,384,496 | ▲ 5% |
| Employees (FTE) | 60.4 | 56.8 | 55.2 | 56 | ▲ 0.8 |
Key figures of CLAES RETAIL GROUP, fiscal years 2023 to 2026, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2027) expected before 31 August 2027.
What happened to CLAES RETAIL GROUP?
What happened at CLAES RETAIL GROUP in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Patrick Hermans stepped down as director. NBB
- JELIUS BV stepped down as director. NBB
- AD REM MANAGEMENT BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Bart Jean M Claes stepped down as director. NBB
- Ann Elisabeth Claes stepped down as director. NBB
- KRUG BV stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2026: loss of € 107,457. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- TECHSTYLE CONSULTING CV stepped down as director. NBB
In short
From € 124,180 profit in 2023 to € 107,457 loss in 2026.
Paid € 57,792 in corporate taxes since 2023.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 124,180 profit.
Pays suppliers within 50 days on average.
Management
The shares are held by GEQ (100%), Bart CLAES (0%) and Ann CLAES (0%). It owns 100% of CIRCULAR TEXTILES, 100% of CKS FASHION, 100% of MAYERLINE, 100% of JBC and 50% of FILOU COMPANY itself.
Directors
According to the 2026 annual accounts
Patrick Hermans
Director
since 2025 · until 2028
Director · represented by Ann D. Claes
since 2025 · until 2026
Director · represented by Dirk Goeminne
Also active at: VAN DE VELDE, BRICK IN THE WALL
since 2023 · until 2025
Director · represented by Peter Grypdonck
Also active at: Orac Holding, PITTIG, Nspire Group
since 2025 · until 2028
since 2025 · until 2028
since 2025 · until 2028
Director · represented by Daniel Krug
Also active at: Brouwerij De Valk, Chocolaterie Guylian, ANTWERP CITY BREWERY, Brouwerij De Koninck, La Vallée des Fées, Moortgat Financial Services, BRASSERIE D'ACHOUFFE, FIN CO +3 more
since 2025 · until 2028
Shareholders
Participations
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Centrum-Zuid 3401
3530 Houthalen-Helchteren
Luchthavenlaan 1
1800 Vilvoorde
Active since 2 April 2021
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 13 companies are registered at this address.
All companies at this address →Mayerline same network
€ 33.1 million revenue · 2026
JBC same network
€ 136.2 million revenue · 2026
IMMO IRIS
€ 1.9 million gross margin · 2026
CKS Fashion same network
€ 19 million revenue · 2026
GIRLS IMMO
€ 1.3 million gross margin · 2026
+8 more
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0462.417.806
- VAT number
- BE 0462.417.806
- Registered office
- Centrum-Zuid 3401, 3530 Houthalen-Helchteren
- Names & denominations
- CLAES RETAIL GROUP · C.R.G.
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 13 January 1998
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 1 Jan 2001
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