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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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Negative equity NBB
More debt than assets in 3 of the last 4 fiscal years.
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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 4 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Gentse Warmte Centrale from Mechelen, company number BE0536885793, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 22.4 million after tax. For that financial year Gentse Warmte Centrale recorded revenue of € 12.2 million and equity of € -13.3 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -22.1 million to € 22.4 million. Profitable, and profit is growing. More debts than assets. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on July 23, 2026.
€ -13.3 million
▲ € 22.4 million vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 22.4 million
▲ still € 22.1 million loss in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 329,944
▲ 73% 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 € -20.9 million.
Debts at end 2025
€ 108.1 million
▲ 4% vs 2024
€ 15.7 million is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 7 years.
€ 5.2 million
▼ 35% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 141 days on average.
€ 7.9 million
▲ 24% vs 2024
Corporate tax and VAT still to pay. No wage debt: nothing outstanding to staff or social security.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Revenue | € 24,542,850 | € 11,697,923 | € 9,480,000 | € 12,192,152 | ▲ 29% |
| Profit after taxes | € 537,716 | € -19,163,201 | € -22,143,067 | € 22,439,782 | ▲ € 44.6 million |
| Equity | € 3,562,591 | € -15,600,610 | € -35,743,677 | € -13,303,895 | ▲ € 22.4 million |
| Total debts | € 114,663,691 | € 122,559,430 | € 128,980,467 | € 135,888,034 | ▲ 5% |
| Cash | € 11,794,328 | € 730,299 | € 190,387 | € 329,944 | ▲ 73% |
| Retained profit | € -2,069,614 | € -21,232,815 | € -43,375,882 | € -20,936,100 | ▲ € 22.4 million |
| Bank debt | € 106,991,805 | € 99,454,572 | € 104,140,578 | € 108,140,574 | ▲ 4% |
| Balance sheet total | € 118,226,282 | € 106,958,819 | € 93,236,790 | € 122,584,140 | ▲ 31% |
Key figures of Gentse Warmte Centrale, 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 Gentse Warmte Centrale?
What happened at Gentse Warmte Centrale in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Gaetan Moussiaux stepped down as director. NBB
- Egan Archer stepped down as director. NBB
- Joanne Fiskerson stepped down as director. NBB
- Gantis BV stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 22.4 million. Source: NBB ↗
- Gaetan Moussiaux became a director. NBB
- Egan Archer became a director. NBB
- Joanne Fiskerson became a director. NBB
In short
From € 537,716 profit in 2022 to € 22.4 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 1.6 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 22.4 million profit.
Pays suppliers within 141 days on average.
Management
The stake of BELGIAN ECO ENERGY comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
Gentse Warmte CentraleThe shares are held by BELGIAN ECO ENERGY (50%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Gaetan Moussiaux
Director
since 2025 · until 2031
Egan Archer
Director
since 2025 · until 2031
Joanne Fiskerson
Director
since 2025 · until 2031
since 2025 · until 2031
Shareholders
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Bedrijvenlaan 1
2800 Mechelen
John Kennedylaan 29 box B
9042 Gent
Active since 23 July 2013
Who else lives here?
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Details
- Company number
- 0536.885.793
- VAT number
- BE 0536.885.793
- Registered office
- Bedrijvenlaan 1, 2800 Mechelen
- Names & denominations
- Gentse Warmte Centrale · GWC
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 23 July 2013
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 12 Sept 2025
- Activities · NACE
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