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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 2 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 0 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 2.7 to 0.
Financials
Financial year 2025
AQUILA from Antwerpen, company number BE0468544642, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -663,057 after tax. For that financial year AQUILA recorded a gross margin of € -492,256 and equity of € -781,363. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -275,664 to € -663,057. 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 July 7, 2026.
€ -781,363
▼ € 663,057 vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -663,057
▼ 141 % more loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 938
▼ 78% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -787,634.
People and assets in 2025
0
▼ 1.5 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 322
▼ 40% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 844,754
▼ 49% vs 2024
€ 48,776 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 16 years.
€ 12,343
▼ 77% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 96,157
▲ € 86,258 vs 2024
Corporate tax and VAT still to pay. No wage debt: nothing outstanding to staff or social security.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 744,313 | € 117,075 | € 101,354 | € -492,256 | ▼ € 593,610 |
| Profit after taxes | € 226,120 | € -167,259 | € -275,664 | € -663,057 | ▼ € 387,394 |
| Equity | € 324,617 | € 157,358 | € -118,305 | € -781,363 | ▼ € 663,057 |
| Total debts | € 2,577,251 | € 3,207,275 | € 2,744,671 | € 1,787,493 | ▼ 35% |
| Cash | € 273 | € 563 | € 4,261 | € 938 | ▼ 78% |
| Land & buildings | € 716,388 | € 833,857 | € 715,119 | € 670,508 | ▼ 6% |
| Retained profit | € 318,346 | € 151,087 | € -124,577 | € -787,634 | ▼ € 663,057 |
| Bank debt | € 1,971,944 | € 2,266,208 | € 1,659,071 | € 844,754 | ▼ 49% |
| Balance sheet total | € 2,901,868 | € 3,364,633 | € 2,626,366 | € 1,006,131 | ▼ 62% |
| Employees (FTE) | 3.2 | 2.7 | 1.5 | 0 | ▼ 1.5 |
Key figures of AQUILA, 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 AQUILA?
What happened at AQUILA in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 663,057. Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Antwerpen. KBO
- Charlotte Verwaest became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Tremelo. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
- John De Decker became a director. NBB
In short
From € 226,120 profit in 2022 to € 663,057 loss in 2025.
Paid € 73,433 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 226,120 profit.
On average € 67,600 of value added per employee in 2024.
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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
Behind AQUILA are John De Decker and Charlotte Verwaest.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
John De Decker
Director
since 1999
Charlotte Verwaest
Director
since 2020
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Statiestraat 48
2600 Antwerpen
Basdongenstraat 25B
3120 Tremelo
Active since 10 May 2000
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0468.544.642
- VAT number
- BE 0468.544.642
- Registered office
- Statiestraat 48, 2600 Antwerpen
- Names & denominations
- AQUILA
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 21 December 1999
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