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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2024 and 2025.
Financials
Financial year 2025
LIM Trade & Finance Belgium from Gent, company number BE0696891253, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -2.3 million after tax. For that financial year LIM Trade & Finance Belgium recorded a gross margin of € -2,749 and equity of € 1.5 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -12,556 to € -2.3 million. The company made a loss. The buffer shrank hard: equity is 60 % below last year. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on June 10, 2026.
€ 1.5 million
▼ 60% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -2.3 million
▼ 18286 % more loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 34,616
▼ 14% 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.
Debts at end 2025
None
No bank loans on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 627
▲ 73% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € -5,075 | € -4,282 | € -5,403 | € -2,749 | ▲ € 2,653 |
| Profit after taxes | € 50,790 | € -11,524 | € -12,556 | € -2,308,417 | ▼ € 2.3 million |
| Equity | € 3,877,477 | € 3,865,953 | € 3,853,397 | € 1,544,980 | ▼ 60% |
| Total debts | € 177,906 | € 182,414 | € 186,165 | € 190,629 | ▲ 2% |
| Cash | € 55,383 | € 48,366 | € 40,081 | € 34,616 | ▼ 14% |
| Retained profit | € 677,477 | € 665,953 | € 653,397 | € -1,655,020 | ▼ € 2.3 million |
| Balance sheet total | € 4,055,383 | € 4,048,366 | € 4,039,562 | € 1,735,609 | ▼ 57% |
Key figures of LIM Trade & Finance 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 LIM Trade & Finance Belgium?
What happened at LIM Trade & Finance Belgium in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 2.3 million. Source: NBB ↗
- Leo De Taeye became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Gent. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 50,790 profit in 2022 to € 2.3 million loss in 2025.
Paid € 4 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 50,790 profit.
Management
Behind LIM Trade & Finance Belgium is Leo De Taeye. Leo De Taeye is also behind DETA-COMPOSITES and MatchID.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
since 2021
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Kwartelstraat 11
9000 Gent
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0696.891.253
- VAT number
- BE 0696.891.253
- Registered office
- Kwartelstraat 11, 9000 Gent
- Names & denominations
- LIM Trade & Finance Belgium
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 29 May 2018
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 17 Nov 2025
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