Financials
Financial year 2024
DE WASSTRAAT from Herent, company number BE0474357021, closed financial year 2024 with a result of € 730,920 after tax. For that financial year DE WASSTRAAT recorded a gross margin of € 1.6 million and equity of € 1.4 million. Compared with financial year 2023, the result moved from € 461,041 to € 730,920. Profitable, and profit is growing. The buffer is growing. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on August 11, 2025.
€ 1.4 million
▲ 38% vs 2023
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 730,920
▲ 59% vs 2023
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 580,823
▼ 20% vs 2023
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 355,000 paid out
49 % of the profit went to the shareholders, mostly to SCHEYS (74 % of the shares). That is where the money ends up.
People and assets in 2024
5.2
▲ 0.4 vs 2023
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 281,122
▲ 11% vs 2023
€ 54,100 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.
€ 25,906
▼ 28% vs 2023
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2024
€ 222,559
▼ 46% vs 2023
€ 133,296 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 2 years.
€ 177,299
▼ 20% vs 2023
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 60,320
▼ 64% vs 2023
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Change 2023 → 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 898,201 | € 975,837 | € 1,273,096 | € 1,634,150 | ▲ 28% |
| Profit after taxes | € 235,904 | € 283,515 | € 461,041 | € 730,920 | ▲ 59% |
| Equity | € 1,071,139 | € 1,354,653 | € 993,373 | € 1,369,293 | ▲ 38% |
| Total debts | € 872,657 | € 1,083,487 | € 1,628,276 | € 818,755 | ▼ 50% |
| Cash | € 218,076 | € 507,900 | € 722,167 | € 580,823 | ▼ 20% |
| Land & buildings | € 768,998 | € 650,261 | € 537,671 | € 428,428 | ▼ 20% |
| Retained profit | € 121,139 | € 404,653 | € 43,373 | € 419,293 | ▲ € 375,920 |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 0 | € 822,321 | € 355,000 | ▼ 57% |
| Bank debt | € 588,606 | € 548,686 | € 415,400 | € 222,559 | ▼ 46% |
| Balance sheet total | € 1,943,796 | € 2,438,140 | € 2,621,649 | € 2,188,048 | ▼ 17% |
| Employees (FTE) | 5.5 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 5.2 | ▲ 0.4 |
Key figures of DE WASSTRAAT, fiscal years 2021 to 2024, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.The annual account for fiscal year 2025 has not been filed yet; it was expected before 31 July 2026.
What happened to DE WASSTRAAT?
What happened at DE WASSTRAAT in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Gerda Verschueren stepped down as director. NBB
- Scheys BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Herman Scheys stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2024: profit of € 730,920 (▲ 59% vs 2023). filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Maarten Scheys stepped down as director. NBB
- Scheys BV became a director. NBB
- Stijn Scheys stepped down as director. NBB
- Brecht Scheys stepped down as director. NBB
In short
From € 235,904 profit in 2021 to € 730,920 profit in 2024.
Paid € 546,261 in corporate taxes since 2021.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 730,920 profit.
On average € 314,300 of value added per employee in 2024.
Management
The stake of SCHEYS comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
DE WASSTRAATThe shares are held by SCHEYS (73.7%).
Directors
According to the 2024 annual accounts
since 2018 · until 2024
Gerda Verschueren
Director
since 2018 · until 2030
Director · represented by Scheys BRECHT
since 2024 · until 2030
since 2018 · until 2024
since 2018 · until 2024
Herman Scheys
Managing director
since 2018 · until 2030
Shareholders
73.7%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Brusselsesteenweg 70
3020 Herent
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 2 companies are registered at this address.
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Email provider
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Hosting
COMBELL-AS, BE
Domain
Domain
dewasstraat.be
Registered
2001-02-27
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Details
- Company number
- 0474.357.021
- VAT number
- BE 0474.357.021
- Registered office
- Brusselsesteenweg 70, 3020 Herent
- Names & denominations
- DE WASSTRAAT
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 20 March 2001
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 1 Jan 2001
- Contact
- dewasstraat.be
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