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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 32 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
UNICARS from Brugge, company number BE0475949603, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -90,616 after tax. For that financial year UNICARS recorded revenue of € 54.3 million and equity of € 3 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 103,459 to € -90,616. The company made a loss. The buffer is growing. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on June 1, 2026.
€ 3 million
▲ 20% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -90,616
▼ still € 103,459 profit in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 1.2 million
▲ 250% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 1.3 million.
People and assets in 2025
49.2
▲ 19.5 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 3.9 million
▲ 86% vs 2024
€ 79,100 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.
€ 852,064
▲ 144% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 3.3 million
▲ 3% vs 2024
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 8.2 million
▼ 20% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 59 days on average.
€ 662,312
▲ 127% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 24,942,200 | € 25,840,702 | € 29,857,504 | € 54,252,659 | ▲ 82% |
| Profit after taxes | € 486,757 | € 184,793 | € 103,459 | € -90,616 | ▼ € 194,075 |
| Equity | € 2,838,669 | € 2,623,462 | € 2,546,921 | € 3,045,332 | ▲ 20% |
| Total debts | € 9,330,373 | € 10,536,153 | € 14,572,426 | € 14,630,619 | |
| Cash | € 845,082 | € 411,106 | € 332,267 | € 1,161,660 | ▲ 250% |
| Land & buildings | € 1,753,418 | € 1,693,392 | € 1,641,543 | - | |
| Retained profit | € 766,286 | € 551,080 | € 474,538 | € 1,260,545 | ▲ 166% |
| Dividend | € 150,000 | € 400,000 | € 180,000 | € 0 | ▼ 100% |
| Bank debt | € 3,669,558 | € 3,219,707 | € 3,226,002 | € 3,311,320 | ▲ 3% |
| Balance sheet total | € 12,181,321 | € 13,176,428 | € 17,128,798 | € 17,675,951 | ▲ 3% |
| Employees (FTE) | 28.4 | 25.4 | 29.7 | 49.2 | ▲ 19.5 |
Key figures of UNICARS, 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 UNICARS?
What happened at UNICARS in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- SAAEM SA stepped down as director. NBB
- Antoine de Harlez de Deulin stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 90,616 (▼ € 194,075 vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Brugge. KBO
- SAAEM SA became a director. NBB
- Antoine de Harlez de Deulin became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Diksmuide. KBO
- New establishment in Oostende. KBO
In short
From € 486,757 profit in 2022 to € 90,616 loss in 2025.
Paid € 400,614 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 486,757 profit.
Paid out € 730,000 in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
The stake of SAAEM Belgium comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
UNICARSThe shares are held by SAAEM Belgium (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
SAAEM SA
Managing director · represented by Benoît Catelin
Also active at: GARAGE MODERN, GARAGE PAUWELS, REVISIEBEDRIJF CLAES & ZONEN, EURO-TRUCKS CLAES, EURO-TRUCKS RENTING, LIMBURGSE VERHUURMAATSCHAPPIJ, Claes & Zonen, TB +10 more
since 2023 · until 2029
Antoine de Harlez de Deulin
Director
Also active at: IMMO WEST 1, GARAGE MODERN, GARAGE PAUWELS, Maurin Immo East II, REVISIEBEDRIJF CLAES & ZONEN, EURO-TRUCKS CLAES, EURO-TRUCKS RENTING, LIMBURGSE VERHUURMAATSCHAPPIJ +15 more
since 2023 · until 2029
Shareholders
100%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Pathoekeweg 7
8000 Brugge
Torhoutsesteenweg 710
8400 Oostende
Active since 4 March 2002
Esenweg 72
8600 Diksmuide
Active since 1 June 2010
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 2 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.
Website
Technologies
Hosting & Email
Email provider
Microsoft 365
Hosting
GOOGLE-CLOUD-PLATFORM - Google LLC, US
Domain
Domain
unicars.be
Registered
2005-03-14
Website info
Features
Security
Network
Details
- Company number
- 0475.949.603
- VAT number
- BE 0475.949.603
- Registered office
- Pathoekeweg 7, 8000 Brugge
- Names & denominations
- UNICARS
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 24 October 2001
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 27 Mar 2026
- Contact
- unicars.be
- Activities · NACE
Detailhandel in auto's en lichte bestelwagens (<= 3,5 ton)
Onderhoud en reparatie van auto's
Detailhandel in auto's en lichte bestelwagens (= 3,5 ton)
Carrosserieherstelling (inclusief spuiten en verven)
Detailhandel in onderdelen en accessoires van motorvoertuigen
Algemeen onderhoud en reparatie van auto's en lichte bestelwagens (<= 3,5 ton)
Reparatie en montage van specifieke auto-onderdelen
Carrosserieherstelling
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