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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Negative equity NBB
More debt than assets in 4 of the last 4 fiscal years.
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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 33 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 13.7 to 10.
Financials
Financial year 2025
The Chick from Mechelen, company number BE0681646813, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 41,194 after tax. For that financial year The Chick recorded a gross margin of € 548,446 and equity of € -24,160. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 18,379 to € 41,194. Profitable, and profit is growing. 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 August 26, 2026.
€ -24,160
▼ € 12,406 vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 41,194
▲ 124% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 35,117
▲ 34% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Stays in the company
No dividend for 2025. Retained profit grew to € -61,360.
People and assets in 2025
10
▼ 1.3 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 354,437
▼ 7% vs 2024
€ 35,400 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.
€ 60,352
▲ 21% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 950,079
▲ 28% vs 2024
€ 94,248 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 10 years.
€ 135,592
▲ 48% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 54,628
▲ 11% 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 | € 543,679 | € 639,409 | € 515,187 | € 548,446 | ▲ 6% |
| Profit after taxes | € 14,031 | € 54,138 | € 18,379 | € 41,194 | ▲ 124% |
| Equity | € -84,271 | € -30,133 | € -11,754 | € -24,160 | ▼ € 12,406 |
| Total debts | € 1,125,412 | € 1,075,283 | € 919,616 | € 1,187,988 | ▲ 29% |
| Cash | € 65,174 | € 98,283 | € 26,194 | € 35,117 | ▲ 34% |
| Land & buildings | € 601,388 | € 560,614 | € 521,743 | € 708,477 | ▲ 36% |
| Retained profit | € -102,871 | € -48,733 | € -30,354 | € -61,360 | ▼ € 31,006 |
| Bank debt | € 891,219 | € 803,191 | € 743,108 | € 950,079 | ▲ 28% |
| Balance sheet total | € 1,041,141 | € 1,045,150 | € 907,862 | € 1,163,828 | ▲ 28% |
| Employees (FTE) | 17.5 | 13.7 | 11.3 | 10 | ▼ 1.3 |
Key figures of The Chick, 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 The Chick?
What happened at The Chick in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 41,194 (▲ 124% vs 2024). filed late Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Mechelen. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 14,031 profit in 2022 to € 41,194 profit in 2025.
Paid € 440 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 54,138 profit.
On average € 54,800 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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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 The Chick are Els Van den Bogaert and Mehdi Mathlouthi. The same people are also behind Taste-M and The WineGrave. Mehdi Mathlouthi is also behind SOUTHSTAR.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Sint-Romboutskerkhof 2
2800 Mechelen
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 1 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0681.646.813
- VAT number
- BE 0681.646.813
- Registered office
- Sint-Romboutskerkhof 2, 2800 Mechelen
- Names & denominations
- The Chick
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 22 September 2017
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 13 Aug 2025
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