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 2023 and 2024.
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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 0 % of short-term debt in 2024; threshold 65 %.
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Legal situation KBO
Vrijwillige ontbinding – vereffening according to the CBE.
Financials
Financial year 2024
HELPING HENS from Merchtem, company number BE0478125371, closed financial year 2024 with a result of € -21,601 after tax. For that financial year HELPING HENS recorded a gross margin of € -9,145 and equity of € 65,151. Compared with financial year 2023, the result moved from € -15,173 to € -21,601. 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 October 30, 2024.
€ 65,151
▼ 25% vs 2023
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -21,601
▼ 42 % more loss than in 2023
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 58,951.
People and assets in 2024
≈ 1
No payroll staff. One director, so that person most likely runs the business.
Debts at end 2024
€ 47,977
▼ 21% vs 2023
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 111
▲ € 91 vs 2023
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 164
Corporate tax and VAT still to pay. No wage debt: nothing outstanding to staff or social security.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Change 2023 → 2024 | |
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| Gross margin | € 5,001 | € -908 | € -9,145 | ▼ € 8,237 |
| Profit after taxes | € -14,526 | € -15,173 | € -21,601 | ▼ € 6,428 |
| Equity | € 101,925 | € 86,752 | € 65,151 | ▼ 25% |
| Total debts | € 134,523 | € 141,827 | € 153,970 | ▲ 9% |
| Cash | - | € 799 | - | |
| Land & buildings | € 232,838 | € 226,134 | € 219,009 | ▼ 3% |
| Retained profit | € 95,725 | € 80,552 | € 58,951 | ▼ 27% |
| Bank debt | € 76,863 | € 60,417 | € 47,977 | ▼ 21% |
| Balance sheet total | € 236,448 | € 228,579 | € 219,121 | ▼ 4% |
Key figures of HELPING HENS, fiscal years 2022 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 October 2025.
What happened to HELPING HENS?
What happened at HELPING HENS in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
HELPING HENS is active according to the CBE. Legal situation: Vrijwillige ontbinding – vereffening.
- New annual accounts for financial year 2024: loss of € 21,601. Source: NBB ↗
- Serge Hens became a director. NBB
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 14,526 loss in 2022 to € 21,601 loss in 2024.
Paid € 164 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Management
Behind HELPING HENS is Serge Hens.
Directors
According to the 2024 annual accounts
Serge Hens
Director
since 2002
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Brussegemkerkstraat 10
1785 Merchtem
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0478.125.371
- VAT number
- BE 0478.125.371
- Registered office
- Brussegemkerkstraat 10, 1785 Merchtem
- Names & denominations
- HELPING HENS
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Vrijwillige ontbinding – vereffening
- Start date
- 6 August 2002
- Peppol
- Not registered