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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 47 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Center for sight - Dr. E. Mertens from Antwerpen, company number BE0553942551, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 752,616 after tax. For that financial year Center for sight - Dr. E. Mertens recorded a gross margin of € 1.8 million and equity of € 114,212. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 1.3 million to € 752,616. The company is profitable. The company holds a healthy buffer. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on June 30, 2026.
€ 114,212
▼ 35% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 752,616
▼ 43% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 445,271
▲ 28% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 815,000 paid out
More than the year’s profit went to the shareholders; reserves fell.
People and assets in 2025
9.2
▲ 0.3 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 746,221
▲ 11% vs 2024
€ 81,100 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.
€ 55,920
▲ 131% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 40,227
▼ 65% vs 2024
€ 27,505 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 1 years.
€ 235,289
▼ 76% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 75,839
▼ 45% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | - | € 6,059,513 | - | - | |
| Gross margin | € 1,651,437 | - | € 2,367,715 | € 1,810,204 | ▼ 24% |
| Profit after taxes | € 852,587 | € 1,042,929 | € 1,312,373 | € 752,616 | ▼ 43% |
| Equity | € 421,294 | € 214,223 | € 176,596 | € 114,212 | ▼ 35% |
| Total debts | € 1,949,329 | € 1,974,432 | € 1,915,778 | € 1,281,223 | ▼ 33% |
| Cash | € 1,088,088 | € 799,944 | € 347,413 | € 445,271 | ▲ 28% |
| Retained profit | € 321,294 | € 114,223 | € 76,596 | € 14,212 | ▼ 81% |
| Dividend | € 1,200,000 | € 1,250,000 | € 1,350,000 | € 815,000 | ▼ 40% |
| Bank debt | € 263,639 | € 190,806 | € 114,885 | € 40,227 | ▼ 65% |
| Balance sheet total | € 2,370,623 | € 2,188,655 | € 2,092,374 | € 1,395,435 | ▼ 33% |
| Employees (FTE) | 8.6 | 9 | 8.9 | 9.2 | ▲ 0.3 |
Key figures of Center for sight - Dr. E. Mertens, 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 Center for sight - Dr. E. Mertens?
What happened at Center for sight - Dr. E. Mertens in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 752,616 (▼ 43% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Signifeye NV became a director. NBB
- Eqiris NV became a director. NBB
- Erik Mertens became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Antwerpen. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 852,587 profit in 2022 to € 752,616 profit in 2025.
Paid € 565,970 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 1.3 million profit.
On average € 196,800 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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Management
The stake of EQIRIS comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
Center for sight - Dr. E. MertensBehind Center for sight - Dr. E. Mertens are Signifeye NV, Eqiris NV and Erik Mertens. The shares are held by EQIRIS (100%). It owns 66.2% of Consultatie itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Kathleen Moons
Also active at: Dr. M. Dieltiëns, DR. F. KESTELOOT, DR. J.C. VRYGHEM, OOGHEELKUNDE, EQIRIS, MO ACTIVITIES, Bredabaan 552, OAMM, Oogartsenpraktijk Brugge +1 more
since 2023
Director · represented by Huib Lodewijks
Also active at: Dr. M. Dieltiëns, DR. F. KESTELOOT, DR. J.C. VRYGHEM, OOGHEELKUNDE, MO ACTIVITIES, Bredabaan 552, OAMM, Oogartsenpraktijk Brugge, Dr. De Wilde Fernand
since 2021
Erik Mertens
Director
Also active at: Dr. E. Mertens, DR. F. KESTELOOT, DR. J.C. VRYGHEM, OOGHEELKUNDE, Consiliario, EQIRIS, CONSULTATIE, Oogartsenpraktijk Brugge
since 2020
Shareholders
100%
Participations
66.2%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Boomsesteenweg 223
2610 Antwerpen
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 5 companies are registered at this address.
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Website
Technologies
Hosting & Email
Email provider
Microsoft 365
Hosting
COMBELL-AS, BE
Website info
Features
Security
Details
- Company number
- 0553.942.551
- VAT number
- BE 0553.942.551
- Registered office
- Boomsesteenweg 223, 2610 Antwerpen
- Names & denominations
- Center for sight - Dr. E. Mertens
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 19 June 2014
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 15 Dec 2025
- Contact
- medipolis.be
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