KALO is a shop in Aalter. Private Limited, started on 24 January 2003, 2 establishments.

What is the address of KALO?

The registered office of KALO is located at Stationsstraat 80, 9880 Aalter.

Is KALO still active?

Yes. According to the CBE (31 October 2026) KALO is active, legal situation “Normale toestand”, started on 24 January 2003.

Is KALO registered on Peppol?

Yes, KALO is registered on the Peppol network with ID 0208:0479380730.

What is the enterprise number of KALO?

The enterprise number of KALO is BE0479380730.

When was KALO founded?

KALO was founded on 24 January 2003.

Who are the directors of KALO?

According to the 2025 annual accounts, the directors of KALO are: Lina Vanden Branden, Koen Sierens.

Is KALO a reliable company?

Databakkes does not pass judgement; this is what the sources say: Active according to the CBE since 24 January 2003; 5 annual accounts filed, latest fiscal year 2025; 2 directors known from the annual account; 2 establishments in the CBE.

How much profit did KALO make in 2025?

KALO posted a profit after taxes of € 263,708 in financial year 2025.

What is the revenue of KALO?

As a small company, KALO is not required to publish revenue in its annual accounts. In financial year 2025, its added value was € 864,570.

How much does an employee at KALO earn?

The average wage cost per full-time employee at KALO was € 76,200 in 2025: staff costs of € 160,021 for 2.1 FTE, according to the annual account at the National Bank. That is the employer's cost, not net pay.

How many employees does KALO have?

According to the 2025 annual accounts, KALO has 2.1 full-time equivalents (FTE).

KALO (Private Limited) - Aalter - BE0479380730

Dossier KALO, printed on 31 October 2026 from databakkes.be/en/0479380730/kalo. Sources: CBE, National Bank of Belgium, Belgian Official Gazette.

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Tight liquidity NBB

Cash and receivables cover 61 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.

Financials

Financial year 2025

KALO from Aalter, company number BE0479380730, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 263,708 after tax. For that financial year KALO recorded a gross margin of € 864,570 and equity of € 1.2 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 166,469 to € 263,708. Profitable, and profit is growing. The buffer is growing. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on July 23, 2026.

What it is worth Growing

€ 1.2 million

▲ 5% vs 2024

Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.

Profit Growing

€ 263,708

▲ 58% vs 2024

Profit after tax over the fiscal year.

Cash in the bank

€ 238,302

▲ € 198,664 vs 2024

Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.

Where the profit goes Pays out

€ 200,000 paid out

76 % of the profit went to the shareholders, the rest stayed in the company.

People and assets in 2025

Full-time equivalents

2.1

▲ 0.1 vs 2024

Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.

Wage cost

€ 160,021

▲ 3% vs 2024

€ 76,200 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.

Vehicles and equipment

€ 10,626

▼ 70% vs 2024

Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.

Debts at end 2025

Bank debt ≈ 11 years to go The accounts give the long-term loan and the part due within the year. The remainder divided by that part is the number of years at an equal pace; a new loan or early repayment changes it.

€ 1.3 million

▼ 2% vs 2024

€ 119,477 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 11 years.

Owed to suppliers

€ 151,278

▼ 36% vs 2024

Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.

Taxes and wages

€ 124,651

▲ 26% vs 2024

Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.

Key figures per fiscal year Download key figures (CSV)
	2022	2023	2024	2025	Change 2024 → 2025
Gross margin	€ 471,085 Gross margin 2022: € 471,085 First fiscal year in the series	€ 524,501 Gross margin 2023: € 524,501 ▲ 11% vs 2022 (€ 471,085) Favourable step	€ 623,992 Gross margin 2024: € 623,992 ▲ 19% vs 2023 (€ 524,501) Favourable step	€ 864,570 Gross margin 2025: € 864,570 ▲ 39% vs 2024 (€ 623,992) Favourable step	▲ 39%
Profit after taxes	€ 107,614 Profit after taxes 2022: € 107,614 First fiscal year in the series	€ 133,196 Profit after taxes 2023: € 133,196 ▲ 24% vs 2022 (€ 107,614) Favourable step	€ 166,469 Profit after taxes 2024: € 166,469 ▲ 25% vs 2023 (€ 133,196) Favourable step	€ 263,708 Profit after taxes 2025: € 263,708 ▲ 58% vs 2024 (€ 166,469) Favourable step	▲ 58%
Equity	€ 967,478 Equity 2022: € 967,478 First fiscal year in the series	€ 1,065,674 Equity 2023: € 1,065,674 ▲ 10% vs 2022 (€ 967,478) Favourable step	€ 1,182,144 Equity 2024: € 1,182,144 ▲ 11% vs 2023 (€ 1,065,674) Favourable step	€ 1,245,852 Equity 2025: € 1,245,852 ▲ 5% vs 2024 (€ 1,182,144) Favourable step	▲ 5%
Total debts	€ 861,426 Total debts 2022: € 861,426 First fiscal year in the series	€ 1,505,309 Total debts 2023: € 1,505,309 ▲ 75% vs 2022 (€ 861,426) Unfavourable step	€ 1,704,208 Total debts 2024: € 1,704,208 ▲ 13% vs 2023 (€ 1,505,309) Unfavourable step	€ 1,645,990 Total debts 2025: € 1,645,990 ▼ 3% vs 2024 (€ 1,704,208) Favourable step	▼ 3%
Cash	€ 64,577 Cash 2022: € 64,577 First fiscal year in the series	€ 89,339 Cash 2023: € 89,339 ▲ 38% vs 2022 (€ 64,577) Favourable step	€ 39,638 Cash 2024: € 39,638 ▼ 56% vs 2023 (€ 89,339) Unfavourable step	€ 238,302 Cash 2025: € 238,302 ▲ € 198,664 vs 2024 (€ 39,638) Favourable step	▲ € 198,664
Land & buildings	€ 1,174,319 Land & buildings 2022: € 1,174,319 First fiscal year in the series	€ 1,956,284 Land & buildings 2023: € 1,956,284 ▲ 67% vs 2022 (€ 1,174,319) Unchanged	€ 2,230,450 Land & buildings 2024: € 2,230,450 ▲ 14% vs 2023 (€ 1,956,284) Unchanged	€ 2,205,279 Land & buildings 2025: € 2,205,279 ▼ 1% vs 2024 (€ 2,230,450) Unchanged	▼ 1%
Retained profit	€ 961,278 Retained profit 2022: € 961,278 First fiscal year in the series	€ 1,059,474 Retained profit 2023: € 1,059,474 ▲ 10% vs 2022 (€ 961,278) Favourable step	€ 1,175,944 Retained profit 2024: € 1,175,944 ▲ 11% vs 2023 (€ 1,059,474) Favourable step	€ 1,239,652 Retained profit 2025: € 1,239,652 ▲ 5% vs 2024 (€ 1,175,944) Favourable step	▲ 5%
Dividend	€ 81,000 Dividend 2022: € 81,000 First fiscal year in the series	€ 35,000 Dividend 2023: € 35,000 ▼ 57% vs 2022 (€ 81,000) Unchanged	€ 50,000 Dividend 2024: € 50,000 ▲ 43% vs 2023 (€ 35,000) Unchanged	€ 200,000 Dividend 2025: € 200,000 ▲ 300% vs 2024 (€ 50,000) Unchanged	▲ 300%
Bank debt	€ 627,806 Bank debt 2022: € 627,806 First fiscal year in the series	€ 1,249,950 Bank debt 2023: € 1,249,950 ▲ 99% vs 2022 (€ 627,806) Unfavourable step	€ 1,314,861 Bank debt 2024: € 1,314,861 ▲ 5% vs 2023 (€ 1,249,950) Unfavourable step	€ 1,287,271 Bank debt 2025: € 1,287,271 ▼ 2% vs 2024 (€ 1,314,861) Favourable step	▼ 2%
Balance sheet total	€ 1,917,935 Balance sheet total 2022: € 1,917,935 First fiscal year in the series	€ 2,660,014 Balance sheet total 2023: € 2,660,014 ▲ 39% vs 2022 (€ 1,917,935) Unchanged	€ 2,975,382 Balance sheet total 2024: € 2,975,382 ▲ 12% vs 2023 (€ 2,660,014) Unchanged	€ 2,980,872 Balance sheet total 2025: € 2,980,872 Unchanged (€ 2,975,382) Unchanged
Employees (FTE)	2 Employees (FTE) 2022: 2 First fiscal year in the series	2 Employees (FTE) 2023: 2 Unchanged (2) Unchanged	2 Employees (FTE) 2024: 2 Unchanged (2) Unchanged	2.1 Employees (FTE) 2025: 2.1 ▲ 0.1 vs 2024 (2) Unchanged	▲ 0.1

Key figures of KALO, 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 KALO?

What happened at KALO in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:

Jul 23, 2026 New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 263,708 (▲ 58% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
Mar 24, 2003 New establishment in Aalter. KBO
Mar 24, 2003 New establishment in Eeklo. KBO
Jan 24, 2003 Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
2003 Lina Vanden Branden became a director. NBB
2003 Koen Sierens became a director. NBB

In short

From € 107,614 profit in 2022 to € 263,708 profit in 2025.

Paid € 271,253 in corporate taxes since 2022.

Best year ever: 2025, with € 263,708 profit.

On average € 411,700 of value added per employee in 2025.

Original PDFs at the National Bank ↗

Management

Lina Vanden Branden Koen Sierens

KALO

Behind KALO are Lina Vanden Branden and Koen Sierens.

Directors

According to the 2025 annual accounts

Lina Vanden Branden

Director

since 2003

Koen Sierens

Director

since 2003

Establishments

Establishment units

Physical locations of this company

Registered office

Stationsstraat 80

9880 Aalter

2.126.512.192

Boelare 13 A

9900 Eeklo

Active since 24 March 2003

What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.

Details

Company number

0479.380.730

VAT number

BE 0479.380.730

Registered office

Stationsstraat 80, 9880 Aalter

Names & denominations

KALO

Enterprise type

Rechtspersoon

Legal form

Private limited company

Legal situation

Normale toestand

Start date

24 January 2003

Peppol

Active · Active since 2 Dec 2025

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