Warning lights
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 50 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Caracole from Hasselt, company number BE0667774823, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -26,301 after tax. For that financial year Caracole recorded a gross margin of € 358,354 and equity of € 87,965. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -5,334 to € -26,301. The company made a loss. The company holds a healthy buffer. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on July 2, 2026.
€ 87,965
▼ 23% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -26,301
▼ 393 % more loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 51,056
▲ € 50,879 vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 77,965.
People and assets in 2025
16.4
▲ 10.6 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 270,933
▲ 24% vs 2024
€ 16,500 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.
€ 20,589
▼ 81% vs 2024
Of which on lease € 5,182.
Debts at end 2025
€ 105,020
▼ 38% vs 2024
€ 48,715 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 2 years.
€ 58,061
▲ 160% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 59,049
▲ 3% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 353,390 | € 393,027 | € 299,703 | € 358,354 | ▲ 20% |
| Profit after taxes | € 15,484 | € 1,859 | € -5,334 | € -26,301 | ▼ € 20,967 |
| Equity | € 117,741 | € 119,600 | € 114,266 | € 87,965 | ▼ 23% |
| Total debts | € 360,922 | € 321,344 | € 261,273 | € 236,296 | ▼ 10% |
| Cash | € 19,256 | € 14,830 | € 177 | € 51,056 | ▲ € 50,879 |
| Retained profit | € 107,741 | € 109,600 | € 104,266 | € 77,965 | ▼ 25% |
| Bank debt | € 235,444 | € 170,080 | € 168,537 | € 105,020 | ▼ 38% |
| Balance sheet total | € 478,663 | € 440,944 | € 375,538 | € 324,261 | ▼ 14% |
| Employees (FTE) | - | 6.7 | 5.8 | 16.4 | ▲ 10.6 |
Key figures of Caracole, 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 Caracole?
What happened at Caracole in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 26,301. Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Hasselt. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 15,484 profit in 2022 to € 26,301 loss in 2025.
Paid € 16,981 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 15,484 profit.
On average € 21,900 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 Caracole is Ruben Noels. Ruben Noels is also behind Caracole Invest.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Zuivelmarkt 16
3500 Hasselt
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Website
Technologies
Hosting & Email
Email provider
Self-hosted
Hosting
LEVEL27-AS * Please direct all complaints to [email protected] *, BE
Website info
Features
Security
Network
Details
- Company number
- 0667.774.823
- VAT number
- BE 0667.774.823
- Registered office
- Zuivelmarkt 16, 3500 Hasselt
- Names & denominations
- Caracole
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 15 December 2016
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 9 Sept 2025
- Contact
- restaurant-caracole.be
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