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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 33 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
AREC from Knokke-Heist, company number BE0467379850, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -11,120 after tax. For that financial year AREC recorded a gross margin of € 10,551 and equity of € 212,548. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 8,485 to € -11,120. 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 August 31, 2026.
€ 212,548
▼ 5% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -11,120
▼ still € 8,485 profit in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 10,406
▲ 226% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 150,574.
People and assets in 2025
0.1
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 9,686
▼ 82% vs 2024
Payroll staff only. What the director pays themselves is already netted into the gross margin and is not shown separately in the accounts.
€ 2,372
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 49,109
▲ 169% vs 2024
€ 5,631 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 5 years.
€ 2,673
▲ 57% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 567
▼ 97% vs 2024
Corporate tax and VAT still to pay. No wage debt: nothing outstanding to staff or social security.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 87,562 | € 118,248 | € 79,816 | € 10,551 | ▼ 87% |
| Profit after taxes | € 10,311 | € -35,323 | € 8,485 | € -11,120 | ▼ € 19,605 |
| Equity | € 250,506 | € 215,183 | € 223,668 | € 212,548 | ▼ 5% |
| Total debts | € 95,965 | € 74,494 | € 79,901 | € 70,194 | ▼ 12% |
| Cash | € 4,406 | € 901 | € 3,193 | € 10,406 | ▲ 226% |
| Land & buildings | € 152,065 | € 148,897 | € 145,729 | € 145,568 | |
| Retained profit | € 188,533 | € 153,210 | € 161,694 | € 150,574 | ▼ 7% |
| Dividend | € 8,571 | € 0 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Bank debt | € 39,479 | € 17,911 | € 18,283 | € 49,109 | ▲ 169% |
| Balance sheet total | € 346,471 | € 289,677 | € 303,569 | € 282,742 | ▼ 7% |
| Employees (FTE) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 |
Key figures of AREC, 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 AREC?
What happened at AREC in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 11,120 (▼ € 19,605 vs 2024). filed late Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Knokke-Heist. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
- Ivo Hubert Bruynseels became a director. NBB
- Anne-Marie Leenknecht became a director. NBB
In short
From € 10,311 profit in 2022 to € 11,120 loss in 2025.
Paid € 25,026 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 10,311 profit.
Paid out € 8,571 in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
Behind AREC are Ivo Hubert Bruynseels and Anne-Marie Leenknecht. It owns 50% of Ibelec itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Ivo Hubert Bruynseels
Managing director
since 1999
Anne-Marie Leenknecht
Director
since 1999
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Zwaluwenlaan 12 box 22
8300 Knokke-Heist
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 1 companies are registered at this address.
All companies at this address →What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0467.379.850
- VAT number
- BE 0467.379.850
- Registered office
- Zwaluwenlaan 12 bus 22, 8300 Knokke-Heist
- Names & denominations
- AREC
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 19 November 1999
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