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 2022 and 2023.
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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 57 % of short-term debt in 2023; threshold 65 %.
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Figures corrected NBB
Corrected annual account filed for 2023.
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Legal situation KBO
Opening faillissement according to the CBE.
Financials
Financial year 2023
Froster from Lokeren, company number BE0462716031, closed financial year 2023 with a result of € -363,113 after tax. For that financial year Froster recorded revenue of € 24.3 million and equity of € 1.3 million. Compared with financial year 2022, the result moved from € -20,163 to € -363,113. The company made a loss. The company holds a healthy buffer. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on January 7, 2025.
€ 1.3 million
▼ 22% vs 2022
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -363,113
▼ 1701 % more loss than in 2022
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 625,086
▲ 22% vs 2022
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -124,453.
People and assets in 2023
34.7
▼ 0.4 vs 2022
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 2.4 million
▲ 17% vs 2022
€ 68,800 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.
€ 341,871
▼ 19% vs 2022
Of which on lease € 329,565.
Debts at end 2023
€ 2.3 million
▼ 4% vs 2022
€ 146,596 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 2 years.
€ 4.1 million
▲ 13% vs 2022
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 68 days on average.
€ 322,345
▼ 16% vs 2022
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | Change 2022 → 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 22,666,559 | € 23,770,981 | € 24,305,393 | ▲ 2% |
| Profit after taxes | € -345,528 | € -20,163 | € -363,113 | ▼ € 342,949 |
| Equity | € 1,658,823 | € 1,638,660 | € 1,275,547 | ▼ 22% |
| Total debts | € 5,768,913 | € 6,327,906 | € 6,665,935 | ▲ 5% |
| Cash | € 675,322 | € 511,482 | € 625,086 | ▲ 22% |
| Retained profit | € 258,823 | € 238,660 | € -124,453 | ▼ € 363,113 |
| Bank debt | € 2,526,994 | € 2,336,816 | € 2,251,360 | ▼ 4% |
| Balance sheet total | € 7,427,736 | € 7,966,566 | € 7,941,482 | |
| Employees (FTE) | 37.2 | 35.1 | 34.7 | ▼ 0.4 |
Key figures of Froster, fiscal years 2021 to 2023, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.The annual account for fiscal year 2024 has not been filed yet; it was expected before 31 July 2025.
What happened to Froster?
What happened at Froster in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
Froster is active according to the CBE. Legal situation: Opening faillissement.
- Nicolaas Franciscus Rombouts stepped down as director. NBB
- Froster Holding BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Corrected annual accounts filed for financial year 2023. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Froster Holding BV became a director. NBB
- Nicolaas Franciscus Rombouts became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Lokeren. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 345,528 loss in 2021 to € 363,113 loss in 2023.
Pays suppliers within 68 days on average.
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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 2023 annual accounts
Nicolaas Franciscus Rombouts
Director
since 2021 · until 2027
Managing director · represented by John Rombouts
since 2021 · until 2027
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Zoomstraat 2
9160 Lokeren
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 1 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0462.716.031
- VAT number
- BE 0462.716.031
- Registered office
- Zoomstraat 2, 9160 Lokeren
- Names & denominations
- Froster
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Opening faillissement
- Start date
- 20 February 1998
- Peppol
- Not registered
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