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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 4 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 3 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
VR MAASMECHELEN TOURIST OUTLETS from Maasmechelen, company number BE0465707490, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -16 million after tax. For that financial year VR MAASMECHELEN TOURIST OUTLETS recorded revenue of € 28.3 million and equity of € -185.4 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -18.5 million to € -16 million. 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 August 4, 2026.
€ -185.4 million
▼ € 16 million vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -16 million
▲ 14 % less loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 3.6 million
▼ 32% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -379.2 million.
People and assets in 2025
23.2
▲ 0.8 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 2.6 million
▲ 4% vs 2024
€ 113,000 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.
€ 34,647
▼ 27% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 207.9 million
▲ 9% vs 2024
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 11.8 million
▼ 8% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 139 days on average.
€ 297,189
▲ 5% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Revenue | € 24,422,853 | € 26,768,138 | € 27,690,757 | € 28,298,022 | ▲ 2% |
| Profit after taxes | € -14,554,696 | € -17,040,306 | € -18,522,271 | € -15,983,663 | ▲ € 2.5 million |
| Equity | € -133,860,115 | € -150,900,421 | € -169,422,692 | € -185,406,354 | ▼ € 16 million |
| Total debts | € 168,353,961 | € 187,151,577 | € 204,753,574 | € 221,687,227 | ▲ 8% |
| Cash | € 3,567,412 | € 5,380,562 | € 5,250,362 | € 3,593,964 | ▼ 32% |
| Land & buildings | € 21,291,603 | € 20,021,314 | € 19,299,260 | € 18,536,109 | ▼ 4% |
| Retained profit | € -327,615,441 | € -344,655,747 | € -363,178,018 | € -379,161,680 | ▼ € 16 million |
| Bank debt | € 156,183,957 | € 171,228,811 | € 190,111,836 | € 207,887,061 | ▲ 9% |
| Balance sheet total | € 34,493,846 | € 36,251,156 | € 35,330,882 | € 36,280,872 | ▲ 3% |
| Employees (FTE) | 27 | 23.9 | 22.4 | 23.2 | ▲ 0.8 |
Key figures of VR MAASMECHELEN TOURIST OUTLETS, 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 VR MAASMECHELEN TOURIST OUTLETS?
What happened at VR MAASMECHELEN TOURIST OUTLETS in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 16 million. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Maasmechelen. KBO
- Maasmechelen Services BV became a director. NBB
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 14.6 million loss in 2022 to € 16 million loss in 2025.
Paid € 27,347 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Pays suppliers within 139 days on average.
Management
The stake of MAASMECHELEN SERVICES comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
VR MAASMECHELEN TOURIST OUTLETSBehind VR MAASMECHELEN TOURIST OUTLETS is Maasmechelen Services BV. The shares are held by VR European Holdings BV (99.4%) and MAASMECHELEN SERVICES (0%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Duncan Forrester Agar
since 2000
Shareholders
VR European Holdings BV
99.4%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Zetellaan(E) 100
3630 Maasmechelen
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Details
- Company number
- 0465.707.490
- VAT number
- BE 0465.707.490
- Registered office
- Zetellaan(E) 100, 3630 Maasmechelen
- Names & denominations
- VR MAASMECHELEN TOURIST OUTLETS
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 24 March 1999
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 29 Sept 2025
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