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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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 19.5 to 12.3.
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Board fully replaced NBB
No director from three years ago is still active according to annual account 2025.
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Busy address KBO
39 other companies have their registered office at the same address; threshold 10.
Financials
Financial year 2025
LifeScan Belgium from Westerlo, company number BE0696820779, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 175,162 after tax. For that financial year LifeScan Belgium recorded a gross margin of € 2.2 million and equity of € 2.1 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 210,036 to € 175,162. The company is profitable. The buffer is growing. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on September 29, 2026.
€ 2.1 million
▲ 9% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 175,162
▼ 17% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
Stays in the company
No dividend for 2025. Retained profit grew to € 1.5 million.
People and assets in 2025
12.3
▼ 2 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.8 million
▼ 44% vs 2024
€ 145,900 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.
Debts at end 2025
None
No bank loans on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 68,377
▼ 24% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 563,651
▲ 2% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 4,631,180 | € 4,418,202 | € 3,583,497 | € 2,174,010 | ▼ 39% |
| Profit after taxes | € 32,079 | € 84,324 | € 210,036 | € 175,162 | ▼ 17% |
| Equity | € 1,599,809 | € 1,684,133 | € 1,894,170 | € 2,069,332 | ▲ 9% |
| Total debts | € 4,589,914 | € 5,471,840 | € 3,706,504 | € 3,679,551 | ▼ 1% |
| Cash | € 23 | - | € 24 | - | |
| Retained profit | € 987,409 | € 1,071,733 | € 1,281,770 | € 1,456,932 | ▲ 14% |
| Balance sheet total | € 6,189,722 | € 7,155,973 | € 5,600,674 | € 5,748,883 | ▲ 3% |
| Employees (FTE) | 22.9 | 19.5 | 14.3 | 12.3 | ▼ 2 |
Key figures of LifeScan Belgium, 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 LifeScan Belgium?
What happened at LifeScan Belgium in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 175,162 (▼ 17% vs 2024). filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Bimal Desai became a director. NBB
- Alisandra Rizzolo stepped down as director. NBB
- James K Rushing Jr became a director. NBB
- Alisandra Rizzolo became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Westerlo. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 32,079 profit in 2022 to € 175,162 profit in 2025.
Paid € 284,328 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 210,036 profit.
On average € 176,700 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
Behind LifeScan Belgium are James K Rushing Jr and Bimal Desai.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
James K Rushing Jr
Director
since 2024
Bimal Desai
Director
since 2026
Alisandra Rizzolo
Director
since 2019 · until 2026
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Nijverheidsstraat 13
2260 Westerlo
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 39 companies are registered at this address.
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What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0696.820.779
- VAT number
- BE 0696.820.779
- Registered office
- Nijverheidsstraat 13, 2260 Westerlo
- Names & denominations
- LifeScan Belgium
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 28 May 2018
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