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 60 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
HEROFRE from Leuven, company number BE0475204582, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -58,811 after tax. For that financial year HEROFRE recorded a gross margin of € 837,832 and equity of € 25,002. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -24,674 to € -58,811. The company made a loss. The buffer shrank hard: equity is 70 % below last year. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on July 30, 2026.
€ 25,002
▼ 70% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -58,811
▼ 138 % more loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 114,227
▲ 47% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -80,998.
People and assets in 2025
16.2
▼ 11.6 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 809,308
▼ 8% vs 2024
€ 50,000 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.
€ 14,068
▼ 23% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 94,225
▼ 28% vs 2024
€ 37,981 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 2 years.
€ 116,418
▼ 15% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 111,965
▲ € 105,760 vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 863,266 | € 959,700 | € 972,797 | € 837,832 | ▼ 14% |
| Profit after taxes | € 85,974 | € 70,979 | € -24,674 | € -58,811 | ▼ € 34,137 |
| Equity | € 37,430 | € 108,410 | € 83,735 | € 25,002 | ▼ 70% |
| Total debts | € 508,106 | € 412,710 | € 307,704 | € 339,416 | ▲ 10% |
| Cash | € 138,765 | € 138,971 | € 77,564 | € 114,227 | ▲ 47% |
| Retained profit | € -68,570 | € 2,410 | € -22,265 | € -80,998 | ▼ € 58,733 |
| Bank debt | € 270,072 | € 190,000 | € 131,544 | € 94,225 | ▼ 28% |
| Balance sheet total | € 545,537 | € 521,120 | € 391,439 | € 364,418 | ▼ 7% |
| Employees (FTE) | 18.3 | - | 27.8 | 16.2 | ▼ 11.6 |
Key figures of HEROFRE, 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 HEROFRE?
What happened at HEROFRE in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 58,811. Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Leuven. KBO
- New establishment in Leuven. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 85,974 profit in 2022 to € 58,811 loss in 2025.
Paid € 6 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 85,974 profit.
On average € 51,700 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of Erica Vanderwegen comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
HEROFREBehind HEROFRE are Erica Vanderwegen and Lima. The shares are held by Erica Vanderwegen (34%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Erica Vanderwegen
Director
Director · represented by Jan Roex
Shareholders
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Tiensestraat 8
3000 Leuven
Jozef Vounckplein 3
3000 Leuven
Active since 5 December 2018
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0475.204.582
- VAT number
- BE 0475.204.582
- Registered office
- Tiensestraat 8, 3000 Leuven
- Names & denominations
- HEROFRE
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 16 July 2001
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 14 Apr 2026
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