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 2024 and 2025.
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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 34 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
AB from Putte, company number BE0469439022, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -11,725 after tax. For that financial year AB recorded a gross margin of € 667,213 and equity of € 1.5 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -537 to € -11,725. 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 October 16, 2026.
€ 1.5 million
▼ 1% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -11,725
▼ 2084 % more loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 41,920
▲ 251% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 1.4 million.
People and assets in 2025
0
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 22,737
▼ 53% 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.
€ 1.2 million
▲ 11% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 1.1 million
▼ 12% vs 2024
€ 176,939 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 4 years.
€ 14,324
▼ 96% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 492
▼ 94% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 408,005 | € 503,085 | € 335,200 | € 667,213 | ▲ 99% |
| Profit after taxes | € 31,967 | € -29,498 | € -537 | € -11,725 | ▼ € 11,188 |
| Equity | € 2,821,161 | € 1,508,688 | € 1,508,181 | € 1,496,456 | ▼ 1% |
| Total debts | € 5,029,256 | € 3,344,155 | € 4,263,741 | € 3,310,541 | ▼ 22% |
| Cash | € 71,656 | € 24,724 | € 11,939 | € 41,920 | ▲ 251% |
| Land & buildings | € 616,455 | € 589,187 | € 279,458 | € 142,460 | ▼ 49% |
| Retained profit | € 2,759,161 | € 1,446,688 | € 1,446,181 | € 1,434,456 | ▼ 1% |
| Bank debt | € 2,097,664 | € 1,560,803 | € 1,294,261 | € 1,134,668 | ▼ 12% |
| Balance sheet total | € 7,887,254 | € 4,871,023 | € 5,789,924 | € 4,821,426 | ▼ 17% |
| Employees (FTE) | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0 | 0 |
Key figures of AB, 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 AB?
What happened at AB in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Ann Michiels stepped down as director. NBB
- Ben Van Loo stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 11,725. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Mechelen. KBO
- Ann Michiels became a director. NBB
- Ben Van Loo became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Putte. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 31,967 profit in 2022 to € 11,725 loss in 2025.
Paid € 525 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 31,967 profit.
Management
The stake of A-STAR GROUP comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
ABThe shares are held by A-STAR GROUP (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
since 2019 · until 2031
Ben Van Loo
Managing director
Also active at: ABCO, B & Co RENT, Michiels, AB AUTO, WASTI, VIA DAM, LEUVENSE POORT, Holidaystraat +19 more
since 2019 · until 2031
Shareholders
100%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Aarschotbaan 14-16
2580 Putte
Aarschotbaan 16
2580 Putte
Active since 7 August 2000
Begijnenweide 3
2800 Mechelen
Active since 2 January 2023
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0469.439.022
- VAT number
- BE 0469.439.022
- Registered office
- Aarschotbaan 14-16, 2580 Putte
- Names & denominations
- AB
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 18 January 2000
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 20 Nov 2020
- Activities · NACE
Detailhandel in auto's en lichte bestelwagens (<= 3,5 ton)
Detailhandel in motorvoertuigen
Detailhandel in auto's en lichte bestelwagens (= 3,5 ton)
Activiteiten van adviesbureaus op het gebied van bedrijfsvoering en overig managementadvies
Verhuur en exploitatie van eigen of geleased residentieel onroerend goed, exclusief sociale woningen
Verhuur en lease van personenauto’s en andere lichte motorvoertuigen
Handel in eigen onroerend goed
Verhuur en lease van vrachtwagens
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