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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 11 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
KRO INVEST from Merelbeke-Melle, company number BE0696709230, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -185,013 after tax. For that financial year KRO INVEST recorded a gross margin of € 107,138 and equity of € 1.8 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -149,579 to € -185,013. The company made a loss. The company holds a healthy buffer. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on May 26, 2026.
€ 1.8 million
▼ 9% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -185,013
▼ 24 % more loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 11,050
▼ 86% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 1.7 million.
People and assets in 2025
0
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
Debts at end 2025
€ 889,950
▼ 9% vs 2024
€ 91,137 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 10 years.
€ 29,288
▼ 49% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 96,211 | € 521,438 | € 178,553 | € 107,138 | ▼ 40% |
| Profit after taxes | € -190,935 | € 235,874 | € -149,579 | € -185,013 | ▼ € 35,435 |
| Equity | € 1,870,560 | € 2,106,434 | € 1,956,856 | € 1,771,842 | ▼ 9% |
| Total debts | € 2,118,051 | € 2,013,296 | € 1,919,226 | € 1,826,898 | ▼ 5% |
| Cash | € 41,591 | € 320,124 | € 76,514 | € 11,050 | ▼ 86% |
| Land & buildings | € 3,876,620 | € 3,732,516 | € 3,762,650 | € 3,555,269 | ▼ 6% |
| Retained profit | € 1,809,060 | € 2,044,934 | € 1,895,356 | € 1,710,342 | ▼ 10% |
| Bank debt | € 1,152,646 | € 1,066,831 | € 979,277 | € 889,950 | ▼ 9% |
| Balance sheet total | € 3,988,611 | € 4,119,731 | € 3,876,082 | € 3,598,741 | ▼ 7% |
Key figures of KRO INVEST, 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 KRO INVEST?
What happened at KRO INVEST in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Danny Vande Sompele stepped down as director. NBB
- Aluclaeys Invest NV stepped down as director. NBB
- De Speyebeek NV stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 185,013. Source: NBB ↗
- Danny Vande Sompele became a director. NBB
- Aluclaeys Invest NV became a director. NBB
- De Speyebeek NV became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Merelbeke-Melle. KBO
In short
From € 190,935 loss in 2022 to € 185,013 loss in 2025.
Paid € 9,477 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 235,874 profit.
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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%
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Management
The stake of DE SPEYEBEEK, E.N.G. - INVEST comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
KRO INVESTThe shares are held by DE SPEYEBEEK (49.8%) and E.N.G. - INVEST (28.5%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
since 2023 · until 2029
Danny Vande Sompele
Director
Also active at: Koninklijke Renvereniging Oostende Hippodroom Wellington-Société Royale des Courses d'Ostende Hippodrome Wellington, Quadrafin, TASSAERT, OSMO REAL ESTATE, Immo Matisse, REMONI, ALUCLAEYS INVEST, OSTEND SEA P'LACE +16 more
since 2025 · until 2031
Managing director · represented by Christophe Desimpel
Also active at: Koninklijke Renvereniging Oostende Hippodroom Wellington-Société Royale des Courses d'Ostende Hippodrome Wellington, Immo Matisse, DE CEDERBOOM, EUROFINA, DEKOSIM, ZAKENKANTOOR D & V, Euro Crossroads Business Park, BEM - Flemish Construction and Investment Company +3 more
since 2023 · until 2029
Shareholders
49.8%
28.5%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Guldensporenpark 117 A
9820 Merelbeke-Melle
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 2 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0696.709.230
- VAT number
- BE 0696.709.230
- Registered office
- Guldensporenpark 117 A, 9820 Merelbeke-Melle
- Names & denominations
- KRO INVEST
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 9 May 2018
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 20 Nov 2020