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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 8 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Fred & Barnes from Maarkedal, company number BE0685647864, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -10,871 after tax. For that financial year Fred & Barnes recorded a gross margin of € 8,783 and equity of € 49,801. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 8,457 to € -10,871. 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 July 1, 2026.
€ 49,801
▼ 18% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -10,871
▼ still € 8,457 profit in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 5,542
▼ 74% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -199.
Debts at end 2025
€ 277,623
▼ 9% vs 2024
€ 16,304 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 17 years.
€ 646
▲ € 535 vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 831
▲ 226% 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 49,256 | € 29,940 | € 31,377 | € 8,783 | ▼ 72% |
| Profit after taxes | € 20,313 | € 2,821 | € 8,457 | € -10,871 | ▼ € 19,328 |
| Equity | € 44,395 | € 72,216 | € 60,673 | € 49,801 | ▼ 18% |
| Total debts | € 389,631 | € 372,688 | € 363,770 | € 331,630 | ▼ 9% |
| Cash | € 5,680 | € 28,604 | € 20,924 | € 5,542 | ▼ 74% |
| Land & buildings | € 394,169 | € 382,849 | € 371,529 | € 360,208 | ▼ 3% |
| Retained profit | € 19,395 | € 22,216 | € 10,673 | € -199 | ▼ € 10,871 |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 0 | € 20,000 | € 0 | ▼ 100% |
| Bank debt | € 344,834 | € 319,369 | € 303,642 | € 277,623 | ▼ 9% |
| Balance sheet total | € 434,026 | € 444,904 | € 424,443 | € 381,431 | ▼ 10% |
Key figures of Fred & Barnes, 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 Fred & Barnes?
What happened at Fred & Barnes in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 10,871 (▼ € 19,328 vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Maarkedal. KBO
- Frederik Benedict Van Outryve became a director. NBB
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 20,313 profit in 2022 to € 10,871 loss in 2025.
Paid € 10,669 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 20,313 profit.
Paid out € 20,000 in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
The stake of Ideabox comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
Fred & BarnesBehind Fred & Barnes is Frederik Benedict Van Outryve. The shares are held by Ideabox (10%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Frederik Benedict Van Outryve
Director
since 2017
Shareholders
10%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Puttene 71
9680 Maarkedal
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 1 companies are registered at this address.
All companies at this address →What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0685.647.864
- VAT number
- BE 0685.647.864
- Registered office
- Puttene 71, 9680 Maarkedal
- Names & denominations
- Fred & Barnes
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 5 December 2017
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