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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 4 of the last 4 fiscal years.
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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 10 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
De Bergcat from Aalst, company number BE0564920377, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -212,004 after tax. For that financial year De Bergcat recorded a gross margin of € 427,251 and equity of € -1.1 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -158,468 to € -212,004. The company made a loss. 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 16, 2026.
€ -1.1 million
▼ € 212,004 vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -212,004
▼ 34 % more loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 29,179
▼ 30% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -1.4 million.
People and assets in 2025
9.4
▼ 2.7 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 392,997
▼ 14% vs 2024
€ 41,800 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.
€ 2,847
▼ 80% vs 2024
Of which on lease € 233.
Debts at end 2025
€ 1.8 million
▼ 6% vs 2024
€ 242,815 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 7 years.
€ 244,672
▲ 29% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 58,851
▼ 21% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 720,981 | € 753,072 | € 576,512 | € 427,251 | ▼ 26% |
| Profit after taxes | € 1,308 | € 83,417 | € -158,468 | € -212,004 | ▼ € 53,536 |
| Equity | € -778,040 | € -694,623 | € -853,091 | € -1,065,095 | ▼ € 212,004 |
| Total debts | € 3,044,906 | € 2,845,420 | € 2,800,668 | € 2,772,853 | ▼ 1% |
| Cash | € 32,852 | € 22,912 | € 41,436 | € 29,179 | ▼ 30% |
| Land & buildings | € 1,827,041 | € 1,704,798 | € 1,597,705 | € 1,496,006 | ▼ 6% |
| Retained profit | € -1,068,040 | € -984,623 | € -1,143,091 | € -1,355,095 | ▼ € 212,004 |
| Bank debt | € 1,982,559 | € 1,935,574 | € 1,882,528 | € 1,774,528 | ▼ 6% |
| Balance sheet total | € 2,266,866 | € 2,150,797 | € 1,947,576 | € 1,707,758 | ▼ 12% |
| Employees (FTE) | 12.6 | 10.8 | 12.1 | 9.4 | ▼ 2.7 |
Key figures of De Bergcat, 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 De Bergcat?
What happened at De Bergcat in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 212,004. Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Ninove. KBO
- New establishment in Ternat. KBO
- Ignace Catry became a director. NBB
- Hilde Berger became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Aalst. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 1,308 profit in 2022 to € 212,004 loss in 2025.
Paid € 575 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 83,417 profit.
On average € 45,500 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%
bpost 18 May 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left from loss to profit
Management
Behind De Bergcat are Ignace Catry and Hilde Berger. The same people are also behind PAN PARTOUT.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
since 2014
since 2014
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Drie Sleutelsstraat 63
9300 Aalst
Nieuwbaan 69
1742 Ternat
Active since 28 February 2019
Brakelsesteenweg 522 box B
9400 Ninove
Active since 5 May 2021
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 3 companies are registered at this address.
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Hosting & Email
Email provider
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Features
Security
Details
- Company number
- 0564.920.377
- VAT number
- BE 0564.920.377
- Registered office
- Drie Sleutelsstraat 63, 9300 Aalst
- Names & denominations
- De Bergcat
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 16 October 2014
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 9 Jan 2026
- Contact
- h2i.be
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