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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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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2024 and 2025.
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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 21 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
C-Shift from Gent, company number BE0634938739, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -2.2 million after tax. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -7.1 million to € -2.2 million. The company made a loss. The buffer is growing. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on June 18, 2026.
€ 30.2 million
▲ 7% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -2.2 million
▲ 70 % less loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 8.8 million
▲ € 8.4 million vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -31.5 million.
People and assets in 2025
€ 27,036
▼ 6% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 202.7 million
▲ 8% vs 2024
€ 18.8 million is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 11 years.
€ 23.8 million
▼ 7% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 12837 days on average.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Profit after taxes | € -5,800,595 | € -10,397,465 | € -7,103,558 | € -2,162,788 | ▲ € 4.9 million |
| Equity | € 41,929,822 | € 31,612,017 | € 28,220,328 | € 30,167,277 | ▲ 7% |
| Total debts | € 155,088,548 | € 195,355,396 | € 213,268,748 | € 226,592,084 | ▲ 6% |
| Cash | € 70,406 | € 29,158 | € 337,333 | € 8,758,680 | ▲ € 8.4 million |
| Retained profit | € -11,885,577 | € -22,283,042 | € -29,386,600 | € -31,549,388 | ▼ € 2.2 million |
| Bank debt | € 137,539,993 | € 171,700,828 | € 187,748,514 | € 202,748,514 | ▲ 8% |
| Balance sheet total | € 197,018,370 | € 226,967,414 | € 241,489,076 | € 256,759,361 | ▲ 6% |
Key figures of C-Shift, 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 C-Shift?
What happened at C-Shift in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Frederik VAN DE VELDE stepped down as director. NBB
- Frederik ENGELS stepped down as director. NBB
- Wim VAN DER STRICHT stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 2.2 million. Source: NBB ↗
- Petra VERLODT stepped down as director. NBB
- ArcelorMittal Holding Services Belgium stepped down as director. NBB
- Frederik VAN DE VELDE became a director. NBB
- Frederik ENGELS became a director. NBB
In short
From € 5.8 million loss in 2022 to € 2.2 million loss in 2025.
Management
The shares are held by ArcelorMittal Holding Services Belgium (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Frederik VAN DE VELDE
Director
since 2025 · until 2028
Frederik ENGELS
Managing director
since 2025 · until 2028
Petra VERLODT
Director
since 2017 · until 2026
Wim VAN DER STRICHT
Director
since 2022 · until 2028
ArcelorMittal Holding Services Belgium
Director · represented by Erwin DE MEYST
Also active at: ARCELORMITTAL BELGIUM, ArcelorMittal Logistics Belgium, ArcelorMittal Tailored Blanks Liège, ArcelorMittal Belgium Recycling, RETRIMEUSE, ARCEO, ArcelorMittal Tailored Blanks Gent, ArcelorMittal Tailored Blanks
since 2024 · until 2026
Shareholders
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
John Kennedylaan 51
9042 Gent
Knippegroen 20
9042 Gent
Active since 1 June 2023
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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Details
- Company number
- 0634.938.739
- VAT number
- BE 0634.938.739
- Registered office
- John Kennedylaan 51, 9042 Gent
- Names & denominations
- C-Shift
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 10 August 2015
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 16 Dec 2025
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