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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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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2024 and 2025.
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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 39 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
GFB from Mechelen, company number BE0476871695, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -895 after tax. For that financial year GFB recorded a gross margin of € 172,476 and equity of € 293,415. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -8,530 to € -895. 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 August 7, 2026.
€ 293,415
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -895
▲ 90 % less loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 51,506
▲ 26% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 273,415.
People and assets in 2025
2.8
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 100,017
▼ 14% vs 2024
€ 35,700 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.
€ 5,626
▼ 68% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 41,455
€ 9,629 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 4 years.
€ 429,598
▲ 12% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 9,911
▼ 23% vs 2024
Wages, holiday pay and social contributions still to pay. No outstanding taxes.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 265,462 | € 307,665 | € 156,438 | € 172,476 | ▲ 10% |
| Profit after taxes | € 2,552 | € 35,091 | € -8,530 | € -895 | ▲ € 7,635 |
| Equity | € 267,748 | € 302,839 | € 294,310 | € 293,415 | |
| Total debts | € 372,840 | € 355,880 | € 401,209 | € 676,020 | ▲ 68% |
| Cash | € 73,324 | € 93,538 | € 41,032 | € 51,506 | ▲ 26% |
| Retained profit | € 247,748 | € 282,839 | € 274,310 | € 273,415 | |
| Dividend | € 185,714 | € 0 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Bank debt | € 27,409 | € 9,190 | € 0 | € 41,455 | |
| Balance sheet total | € 640,588 | € 658,720 | € 695,519 | € 969,435 | ▲ 39% |
| Employees (FTE) | - | 6.5 | - | 2.8 |
Key figures of GFB, 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 GFB?
What happened at GFB in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 895. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Mechelen. KBO
- WERNER VERHOEVEN became a director. NBB
- CAROLINE FRANSEN became a director. NBB
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 2,552 profit in 2022 to € 895 loss in 2025.
Paid € 21,025 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 35,091 profit.
On average € 61,600 of value added per employee in 2025.
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De Lijn 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025
filed on 8 June 2026
What was left
€ 20 k ▼ 91%
Money in the bank
€ 178 k ▼ 98%
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NMBS 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left ▼ 80%
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Management
Behind GFB are WERNER VERHOEVEN and CAROLINE FRANSEN. The shares are held by WERNER VERHOEVEN and CAROLINE FRANSEN.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
WERNER VERHOEVEN
Director
Is a shareholder
since 2010
CAROLINE FRANSEN
Director
Is a shareholder
since 2010
Shareholders
WERNER VERHOEVEN · director
CAROLINE FRANSEN · director
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Battelsesteenweg 298
2800 Mechelen
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0476.871.695
- VAT number
- BE 0476.871.695
- Registered office
- Battelsesteenweg 298, 2800 Mechelen
- Names & denominations
- GFB
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 8 February 2002
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