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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 3 of the last 4 fiscal years.
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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 22 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Sterling Group from Antwerpen, company number BE0756788456, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 42,162 after tax. For that financial year Sterling Group recorded revenue of € 16.9 million and equity of € -12,486. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -39,538 to € 42,162. 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 June 19, 2026.
€ -12,486
▲ € 42,162 vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 42,162
▲ still € 39,538 loss in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 104,204
▼ 7% 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 € -112,486.
People and assets in 2025
2.3
▲ 0.3 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 126,769
▲ 19% vs 2024
€ 55,100 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.
€ 22,122
▼ 58% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 240,410
▼ 13% vs 2024
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 5.1 million
▲ 14% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 114 days on average.
€ 42,724
▲ € 40,291 vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | - | € 593,315 | € 18,875,250 | € 16,883,419 | ▼ 11% |
| Profit after taxes | € -542 | € -106,583 | € -39,538 | € 42,162 | ▲ € 81,700 |
| Equity | € 91,472 | € -15,111 | € -54,648 | € -12,486 | ▲ € 42,162 |
| Total debts | € 178 | € 536,962 | € 4,827,435 | € 5,383,464 | ▲ 12% |
| Cash | - | € 154,552 | € 111,988 | € 104,204 | ▼ 7% |
| Land & buildings | - | € 144,802 | € 97,540 | € 40,852 | ▼ 58% |
| Retained profit | € -8,528 | € -115,111 | € -154,648 | € -112,486 | ▲ € 42,162 |
| Bank debt | € 0 | € 331,764 | € 275,090 | € 240,410 | ▼ 13% |
| Balance sheet total | € 91,650 | € 521,851 | € 4,772,787 | € 5,370,978 | ▲ 13% |
| Employees (FTE) | - | 0.8 | 2 | 2.3 | ▲ 0.3 |
Key figures of Sterling Group, 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 Sterling Group?
What happened at Sterling Group in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 42,162. Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Antwerpen. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 542 loss in 2022 to € 42,162 profit in 2025.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 42,162 profit.
Pays suppliers within 114 days on average.
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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%
bpost 18 May 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left from loss to profit
Management
Behind Sterling Group is Karim Djad Otmane.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Karim Djad Otmane
Director
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Boomsesteenweg 943
2610 Antwerpen
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0756.788.456
- VAT number
- BE 0756.788.456
- Registered office
- Boomsesteenweg 943, 2610 Antwerpen
- Names & denominations
- Sterling Group
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 20 October 2020
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