Warning lights
Signals from the annual accounts, the CBE and the Official Gazette, each with its threshold and source. No score, no verdict.
-
Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2024 and 2025.
-
Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 28 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
-
Busy address KBO
13 other companies have their registered office at the same address; threshold 10.
Financials
Financial year 2025
CLAES RETAIL GROUP from Houthalen-Helchteren, company number BE0462417806, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -11,508 after tax. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -34,780 to € -11,508. 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 24, 2025.
€ 53.3 million
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -11,508
▲ 67 % less loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 107,247
▲ 62% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -40.4 million.
People and assets in 2025
55.2
▼ 1.6 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 4.7 million
▲ 2% vs 2024
€ 84,900 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.
€ 264
▼ 63% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 987,313
▼ 21% vs 2024
€ 263,282 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 4 years.
€ 1.3 million
▼ 1% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 84 days on average.
€ 767,534
▲ 30% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
Want to see how much further we take a dossier in the Pro version? Open the free De Lijn example and give feedback →
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 5,924,839 | € 4,038,259 | € 2,003,838 | - | |
| Profit after taxes | € 170,590 | € 124,180 | € -34,780 | € -11,508 | ▲ € 23,272 |
| Equity | € 99,677,015 | € 53,300,610 | € 53,265,830 | € 53,254,322 | |
| Total debts | € 23,326,552 | € 27,357,388 | € 26,238,049 | € 29,003,469 | ▲ 11% |
| Cash | € 273,021 | € 80,403 | € 66,288 | € 107,247 | ▲ 62% |
| Retained profit | € -75,784,958 | € -40,306,137 | € -40,340,917 | € -40,352,425 | |
| Bank debt | € 551,250 | € 755,730 | € 1,246,510 | € 987,313 | ▼ 21% |
| Balance sheet total | € 123,003,568 | € 80,657,998 | € 79,503,878 | € 82,257,791 | ▲ 3% |
| Employees (FTE) | 56.1 | 60.4 | 56.8 | 55.2 | ▼ 1.6 |
Key figures of CLAES RETAIL GROUP, fiscal years 2022 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.The annual account for fiscal year 2026 has not been filed yet; it was expected before 31 August 2026.
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:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 11,508. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Patrick Hermans stepped down as director. NBB
- JELIUS BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Techstyle Consulting CV stepped down as director. NBB
- EXECUTIVE NV 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
In short
From € 170,590 profit in 2022 to € 11,508 loss in 2025.
Paid € 64,364 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 170,590 profit.
Pays suppliers within 84 days on average.
A new publication or filing at CLAES RETAIL GROUP? We notify you, reason included.
Follow CLAES RETAIL GROUPDatabakkes Pro
Know what changes at your customers, suppliers and competitors. Without reading an annual account.
- Follow them in one folder Every company in your folder gets this full dossier: household book, all fiscal years, benchmark against companies of the same size.
- We alert you, with the reason New annual account, Official Gazette publication or status change: you get what changed and where it says so.
- In bulk too, and in ChatGPT and Claude Upload your customer list and get the warning signs back per company. Or ask in your own AI assistant, with this register as the source.
Databakkes Pro is being built. Sign up now and you are first in line for an invitation, with a month to try without a credit card.
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%
Open the dossier →
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
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 and 100% of JBC itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Patrick Hermans
Director
since 2023 · until 2025
Director · represented by Ann Claes
since 2023 · until 2025
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 2023 · until 2025
since 2023 · until 2025
since 2023 · until 2025
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
€ 32.9 million revenue · 2025
JBC same network
€ 143.4 million revenue · 2025
IMMO IRIS
€ 1.8 million gross margin · 2025
CKS Fashion same network
€ 19.5 million revenue · 2025
GIRLS IMMO
€ 1.3 million gross margin · 2025
+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
- Activities · NACE
Activiteiten van adviesbureaus op het gebied van bedrijfsvoering en overig managementadvies
Overige adviesbureaus op het gebied van bedrijfsvoering en beheer
Overige adviesbureaus op het gebied van bedrijfsbeheer; adviesbureaus op het gebied van bedrijfsvoering
Activiteiten van hoofdkantoren