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 12 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 20.8 to 17.8.
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Busy address KBO
14 other companies have their registered office at the same address; threshold 10.
Financials
Financial year 2025
BRICAT from Aarschot, company number BE0743843906, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 51,689 after tax. For that financial year BRICAT recorded a gross margin of € 1.2 million and equity of € -72,104. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 372 to € 51,689. 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 July 31, 2026.
€ -72,104
▲ € 51,689 vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 51,689
▲ € 51,317 vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 60,516
▼ 45% 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 € -82,104.
People and assets in 2025
17.8
▼ 2.3 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 955,447
▼ 3% vs 2024
€ 53,700 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.
€ 20,683
▼ 38% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 935,484
▼ 14% vs 2024
€ 186,072 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 3 years.
€ 771,723
▼ 9% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 217,956
▲ 4% 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 | € 699,480 | € 1,097,248 | € 1,001,165 | € 1,158,933 | ▲ 16% |
| Profit after taxes | € -380,898 | € 332 | € 372 | € 51,689 | ▲ € 51,317 |
| Equity | € -124,498 | € -124,166 | € -123,794 | € -72,104 | ▲ € 51,689 |
| Total debts | € 2,732,182 | € 2,635,992 | € 2,321,009 | € 2,165,466 | ▼ 7% |
| Cash | € 119,014 | € 114,290 | € 110,645 | € 60,516 | ▼ 45% |
| Retained profit | € -134,498 | € -134,166 | € -133,794 | € -82,104 | ▲ € 51,689 |
| Bank debt | € 1,173,734 | € 1,103,168 | € 1,093,065 | € 935,484 | ▼ 14% |
| Balance sheet total | € 2,607,684 | € 2,511,827 | € 2,197,215 | € 2,093,361 | ▼ 5% |
| Employees (FTE) | 22 | 20.8 | 20.1 | 17.8 | ▼ 2.3 |
Key figures of BRICAT, 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 BRICAT?
What happened at BRICAT in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 51,689 (▲ € 51,317 vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Aarschot. KBO
- New establishment in Aarschot. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 380,898 loss in 2022 to € 51,689 profit in 2025.
Paid € 8,682 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 51,689 profit.
On average € 65,100 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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Management
Behind BRICAT are Pieter-Jan Troukens and Eva Troukens. The same people are also behind Free Time Group, Splinter Interieur and UNITIME. Pieter-Jan Troukens is also behind Blaker. Eva Troukens is also behind Linie.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Grote Markt 28
3200 Aarschot
Diestse steenweg 84
3200 Aarschot
Active since 19 February 2020
Who else lives here?
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Details
- Company number
- 0743.843.906
- VAT number
- BE 0743.843.906
- Registered office
- Grote Markt 28, 3200 Aarschot
- Names & denominations
- BRICAT
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 19 February 2020
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 19 Feb 2026
- Activities · NACE
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