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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 25 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Cools L&A from Jabbeke, company number BE0779464086, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 115,728 after tax. For that financial year Cools L&A recorded a gross margin of € 605,026 and equity of € 272,040. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 70,036 to € 115,728. Profitable, and profit is growing. The buffer is growing. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on July 9, 2026.
€ 272,040
▲ 64% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 115,728
▲ 65% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 101,972
▲ 3% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 10,000 paid out
9 % of the profit went to the shareholders, the rest stayed in the company.
People and assets in 2025
4.4
▼ 0.5 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 313,906
▼ 3% vs 2024
€ 71,300 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.
€ 5,364
▼ 57% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 1.8 million
▼ 6% vs 2024
€ 132,393 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 14 years.
€ 147,010
▲ 14% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 65,326
▼ 9% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 398,478 | € 507,171 | € 558,518 | € 605,026 | ▲ 8% |
| Profit after taxes | € 48,923 | € 42,354 | € 70,036 | € 115,728 | ▲ 65% |
| Equity | € 53,923 | € 96,277 | € 166,312 | € 272,040 | ▲ 64% |
| Total debts | € 2,692,447 | € 2,633,836 | € 2,660,862 | € 2,453,721 | ▼ 8% |
| Cash | € 92,020 | € 77,568 | € 99,376 | € 101,972 | ▲ 3% |
| Land & buildings | € 2,331,046 | € 2,316,309 | € 2,307,484 | € 2,265,162 | ▼ 2% |
| Retained profit | € 48,923 | € 91,277 | € 161,312 | € 267,040 | ▲ 66% |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 0 | € 0 | € 10,000 | |
| Bank debt | € 2,088,677 | € 2,009,826 | € 1,921,753 | € 1,810,819 | ▼ 6% |
| Balance sheet total | € 2,746,370 | € 2,730,112 | € 2,827,174 | € 2,725,761 | ▼ 4% |
| Employees (FTE) | 3.6 | 4.4 | 4.9 | 4.4 | ▼ 0.5 |
Key figures of Cools L&A, 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 Cools L&A?
What happened at Cools L&A in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 115,728 (▲ 65% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Jabbeke. KBO
- New establishment in Jabbeke. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 48,923 profit in 2022 to € 115,728 profit in 2025.
Paid € 74,452 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 115,728 profit.
On average € 137,500 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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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 Cools L&A are Annelies COOLS and Lieven COOLS. Annelies COOLS is also behind Cools Jabbeke.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Lieven COOLS
Director
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Gistelsteenweg 330
8490 Jabbeke
Dorpsstraat 92
8490 Jabbeke
Active since 28 December 2021
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Website
Technologies
Hosting & Email
Email provider
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Hosting
ONECOM, DK
Website info
Features
Security
Network
Details
- Company number
- 0779.464.086
- VAT number
- BE 0779.464.086
- Registered office
- Gistelsteenweg 330, 8490 Jabbeke
- Names & denominations
- Cools L&A
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 28 December 2021
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 9 Sept 2025
- Contact
- coolsjabbeke.be [email protected]
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