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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 48 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Bril Gent from Gent, company number BE0652868396, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -1,457 after tax. For that financial year Bril Gent recorded a gross margin of € 4,334 and equity of € 4,771. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -10,072 to € -1,457. The company made a loss. 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 September 21, 2026.
€ 4,771
▼ 23% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -1,457
▲ 86 % less loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 8,475
▼ 26% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -13,829.
Debts at end 2025
€ 97,290
▼ 16% vs 2024
€ 15,991 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 6 years.
€ 38,524
▲ 30% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 7,101
▼ 6% 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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| Gross margin | € 17,776 | € 25,881 | € 59,310 | € 4,334 | ▼ 93% |
| Profit after taxes | € -12,895 | € -5,114 | € -10,072 | € -1,457 | ▲ € 8,615 |
| Equity | € 21,414 | € 16,300 | € 6,228 | € 4,771 | ▼ 23% |
| Total debts | € 197,551 | € 166,235 | € 156,876 | € 145,713 | ▼ 7% |
| Cash | € 16,722 | € 10,499 | € 11,428 | € 8,475 | ▼ 26% |
| Land & buildings | € 54,006 | € 37,716 | € 21,427 | € 8,228 | ▼ 62% |
| Retained profit | € 2,814 | € -2,300 | € -12,372 | € -13,829 | ▼ € 1,457 |
| Bank debt | € 122,117 | € 87,278 | € 116,292 | € 97,290 | ▼ 16% |
| Balance sheet total | € 218,965 | € 182,535 | € 163,104 | € 150,484 | ▼ 8% |
Key figures of Bril Gent, 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 Bril Gent?
What happened at Bril Gent in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 1,457. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Sarah Withofs became a director. NBB
- Charlotte Van Hijfte became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Gent. KBO
- Incorporation, published in the Gazette. Source: Staatsblad ↗
In short
From € 12,895 loss in 2022 to € 1,457 loss in 2025.
Management
The stake of BRIL OOSTENDE comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
Bril GentBehind Bril Gent are Sarah Withofs and Charlotte Van Hijfte. The shares are held by BRIL OOSTENDE (20%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Sarah Withofs
Director
since 2022
Charlotte Van Hijfte
Director
since 2016
Shareholders
20%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Mageleinstraat 19
9000 Gent
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Shareholders according to the Official Gazette deeds
Who contributed at incorporation and at capital increases, with the deed as source. Later share transfers are not published in the Gazette.
Incorporation
Source: Deed ↗- VAN HIJFTE Charlotte(oprichter) 40%
- WITHOFS Sarah Katia Geert(oprichter) 40%
- BRIL OOSTENDE(oprichter) 20%
Details
- Company number
- 0652.868.396
- VAT number
- BE 0652.868.396
- Registered office
- Mageleinstraat 19, 9000 Gent
- Names & denominations
- Bril Gent
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 27 April 2016
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- Active · Active since 9 Dec 2025
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