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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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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 64 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Busy address KBO
12 other companies have their registered office at the same address; threshold 10.
Financials
Financial year 2025
John Cockerill Defense Siège from Seraing, company number BE0771840084, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 10.3 million after tax. For that financial year John Cockerill Defense Siège recorded a gross margin of € 12.1 million and equity of € 3.6 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 823,645 to € 10.3 million. Profitable, and profit is growing. The buffer shrank hard: equity is 61 % below last year. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on October 8, 2026.
€ 3.6 million
▼ 61% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 10.3 million
▲ € 9.5 million vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 304,965
▲ € 259,050 vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 12.1 million paid out
More than the year’s profit went to the shareholders; reserves fell.
People and assets in 2025
0
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
Debts at end 2025
€ 5.9 million
€ 400,000 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 15 years.
€ 26,828
▲ 159% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 813,262
Corporate tax and VAT still to pay. No wage debt: nothing outstanding to staff or social security.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 1,977,480 | € 1,308,295 | € 1,539,243 | € 12,054,471 | ▲ € 10.5 million |
| Profit after taxes | € 1,072,205 | € 503,487 | € 823,645 | € 10,344,580 | ▲ € 9.5 million |
| Equity | € 8,005,431 | € 8,508,917 | € 9,332,562 | € 3,611,319 | ▼ 61% |
| Total debts | € 0 | € 406,900 | € 378,684 | € 6,810,143 | ▲ € 6.4 million |
| Cash | € 50,000 | € 50,000 | € 45,915 | € 304,965 | ▲ € 259,050 |
| Land & buildings | € 5,040,989 | € 4,723,977 | € 4,407,194 | € 9,488,628 | ▲ 115% |
| Retained profit | € 3,527,835 | € 4,031,322 | € 4,854,967 | € 3,133,723 | ▼ 35% |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 0 | € 0 | € 12,065,824 | |
| Bank debt | € 0 | € 0 | € 0 | € 5,933,333 | |
| Balance sheet total | € 8,005,431 | € 8,915,817 | € 9,711,247 | € 10,421,461 | ▲ 7% |
Key figures of John Cockerill Defense Siège, 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 John Cockerill Defense Siège?
What happened at John Cockerill Defense Siège in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Caroline Crevecoeur stepped down as director. NBB
- Thierry Renaudin stepped down as director. NBB
- Frédéric Lemaître stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 10.3 million (▲ € 9.5 million vs 2024). filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Gildino Tavares-Ducrotois stepped down as director. NBB
- Nicolas Serin stepped down as director. NBB
- Caroline Crevecoeur became a director. NBB
- Thierry Renaudin became a director. NBB
In short
From € 1.1 million profit in 2022 to € 10.3 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 814,700 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 10.3 million profit.
Paid out € 12.1 million in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
The stake of GIMCO comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
John Cockerill Defense SiègeThe shares are held by John Cockerill Défense SA (100%) and GIMCO (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Diego Aquilina
Also active at: JOHN COCKERILL, GIMCO SIO, GIMCO Willebroek, GIMCO Sprimont, GIMCO Manage, GIMCO
· until 2025
Gildino Tavares-Ducrotois
Director
· until 2025
Nicolas Serin
Director
· until 2025
Caroline Crevecoeur
Director
since 2025 · until 2028
Thierry Renaudin
Director
since 2025 · until 2028
Frédéric Lemaître
Director
since 2025 · until 2028
Shareholders
100%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Avenue Greiner 1
4100 Seraing
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 12 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0771.840.084
- VAT number
- BE 0771.840.084
- Registered office
- Avenue Greiner 1, 4100 Seraing
- Names & denominations
- John Cockerill Defense Siège
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 29 July 2021
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 10 Dec 2025
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