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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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Negative equity NBB
More debt than assets in 2 of the last 4 fiscal years.
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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 24 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Échelle from Bertem, company number BE0746483195, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -9,034 after tax. For that financial year Échelle recorded a gross margin of € -6,363 and equity of € -44,625. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -45,382 to € -9,034. The company made a loss. 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 June 25, 2026.
€ -44,625
▼ € 9,034 vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -9,034
▲ 80 % less loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 2,487
▲ 235% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -94,625.
Debts at end 2025
€ 750,000
▲ 15% vs 2024
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € -3,353 | € -3,380 | € -6,259 | € -6,363 | ▼ € 104 |
| Profit after taxes | € -3,480 | € -28,832 | € -45,382 | € -9,034 | ▲ € 36,348 |
| Equity | € 38,624 | € 9,792 | € -35,591 | € -44,625 | ▼ € 9,034 |
| Total debts | € 636,306 | € 1,187,347 | € 1,288,597 | € 1,386,250 | ▲ 8% |
| Cash | € 77,199 | € 7,354 | € 741 | € 2,487 | ▲ 235% |
| Retained profit | € -11,376 | € -40,208 | € -85,591 | € -94,625 | ▼ € 9,034 |
| Bank debt | € 0 | € 551,000 | € 651,000 | € 750,000 | ▲ 15% |
| Balance sheet total | € 674,929 | € 1,197,139 | € 1,253,006 | € 1,341,625 | ▲ 7% |
Key figures of Échelle, 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 Échelle?
What happened at Échelle in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 9,034. Source: NBB ↗
- De Hulsten BV became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Bertem. KBO
- Pieter Vandenhout BV became a director. NBB
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 3,480 loss in 2022 to € 9,034 loss in 2025.
Management
The stake of PIETER VANDENHOUT, De Hulsten comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
ÉchelleBehind Échelle are Pieter Vandenhout BV and De Hulsten BV. The shares are held by PIETER VANDENHOUT (50%) and De Hulsten (50%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Pieter Suzanne Vandenhout
Also active at: PIETER VANDENHOUT, De Suerbemde
since 2020
Director · represented by Luc Logist
Also active at: AVANT GARDEN, De Suerbemde, OUT-STANDING
since 2021
Shareholders
50%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Bosstraat 197
3060 Bertem
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 2 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
- 0746.483.195
- VAT number
- BE 0746.483.195
- Registered office
- Bosstraat 197, 3060 Bertem
- Names & denominations
- Échelle
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 23 April 2020
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 5 Jan 2026
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