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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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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 5.1 to 3.5.
Financials
Financial year 2025
La vita è bella from Esneux, company number BE0476293556, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 2,104 after tax. For that financial year La vita è bella recorded a gross margin of € 229,150 and equity of € 23,365. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -18,469 to € 2,104. Profitable, and profit is growing. The buffer is growing. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on July 31, 2026.
€ 23,365
▲ 10% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 2,104
▲ still € 18,469 loss in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 41,246
▼ 28% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Stays in the company
No dividend for 2025. Retained profit grew to € -1,435.
People and assets in 2025
3.5
▼ 0.9 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 174,403
▲ 4% vs 2024
€ 49,800 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.
€ 13,969
▲ 158% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 245,117
▼ 11% vs 2024
€ 30,406 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 8 years.
€ 7,685
▼ 59% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 19,933
▼ 30% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | - | € 500,858 | - | - | |
| Gross margin | € 190,074 | € 191,508 | € 212,317 | € 229,150 | ▲ 8% |
| Profit after taxes | € 5,170 | € -29,845 | € -18,469 | € 2,104 | ▲ € 20,572 |
| Equity | € 69,575 | € 39,730 | € 21,261 | € 23,365 | ▲ 10% |
| Total debts | € 366,897 | € 351,786 | € 324,225 | € 274,550 | ▼ 15% |
| Cash | € 124,445 | € 68,469 | € 57,250 | € 41,246 | ▼ 28% |
| Land & buildings | € 225,031 | € 209,800 | € 194,568 | € 179,531 | ▼ 8% |
| Retained profit | € 44,775 | € 14,930 | € -3,539 | € -1,435 | ▲ € 2,104 |
| Bank debt | € 283,527 | € 304,533 | € 276,831 | € 245,117 | ▼ 11% |
| Balance sheet total | € 436,471 | € 391,516 | € 345,486 | € 297,915 | ▼ 14% |
| Employees (FTE) | 5.1 | 5.1 | 4.4 | 3.5 | ▼ 0.9 |
Key figures of La vita è bella, 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 La vita è bella?
What happened at La vita è bella in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 2,104. Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Esneux. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 5,170 profit in 2022 to € 2,104 profit in 2025.
Paid € 5,529 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 5,170 profit.
On average € 65,500 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
Behind La vita è bella are Dominique LEMAIRE and Vanessa CANNELLA.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Dominique LEMAIRE
Director
Vanessa CANNELLA
Director
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Place du Roi Albert 2
4130 Esneux
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Details
- Company number
- 0476.293.556
- VAT number
- BE 0476.293.556
- Registered office
- Place du Roi Albert 2, 4130 Esneux
- Names & denominations
- La vita è bella
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 12 December 2001
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- Contact
- vitaebella-restaurant.be
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