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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 4 of the last 4 fiscal years.
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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 27 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Knol en Kool from Gent, company number BE0780527920, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 32 after tax. For that financial year Knol en Kool recorded a gross margin of € 322,932 and equity of € -46,921. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 55,173 to € 32. The company is profitable. 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 September 29, 2026.
€ -46,921
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 32
▼ € 55,141 vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 16,919
▼ 40% 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 € -56,921.
People and assets in 2025
4.4
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 192,030
▲ 14% vs 2024
€ 43,600 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.
€ 40,264
▼ 12% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 322,520
€ 70,064 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 5 years.
€ 101,171
▼ 9% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 65,418
▼ 2% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 30,230 | € 274,390 | € 369,404 | € 322,932 | ▼ 13% |
| Profit after taxes | € -54,810 | € -57,317 | € 55,173 | € 32 | ▼ € 55,141 |
| Equity | € -44,810 | € -102,126 | € -46,953 | € -46,921 | |
| Total debts | € 830,543 | € 749,722 | € 628,401 | € 589,766 | ▼ 6% |
| Cash | € 10,329 | € 5,780 | € 27,979 | € 16,919 | ▼ 40% |
| Retained profit | € -54,810 | € -112,126 | € -56,953 | € -56,921 | |
| Bank debt | € 412,681 | € 367,599 | € 323,449 | € 322,520 | |
| Balance sheet total | € 785,733 | € 647,595 | € 581,448 | € 542,845 | ▼ 7% |
| Employees (FTE) | - | - | - | 4.4 |
Key figures of Knol en Kool, 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 Knol en Kool?
What happened at Knol en Kool in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 32 (▼ € 55,141 vs 2024). filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Daphne Sprengers became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Gent. KBO
- Incorporation, published in the Gazette. Source: Staatsblad ↗
- New establishment in Gent. KBO
- Stijn Sprengers became a director. NBB
In short
From € 54,810 loss in 2022 to € 32 profit in 2025.
Paid € 200 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 55,173 profit.
On average € 73,400 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
Behind Knol en Kool are Daphne Sprengers and Stijn Sprengers. The shares are held by Anne-Marie Waterloos, Daphne Sprengers and Stijn Sprengers.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Daphne Sprengers
Director
Is a shareholder
since 2025
Stijn Sprengers
Director
Is a shareholder
since 2022
Shareholders
Anne-Marie Waterloos
Daphne Sprengers · director
Stijn Sprengers · director
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Leithstraat 16
9000 Gent
Heilige-Geeststraat 30
9000 Gent
Active since 6 July 2022
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Shareholders according to the Official Gazette deeds
Who contributed at incorporation and at capital increases, with the deed as source. Later share transfers are not published in the Gazette.
Incorporation
Source: Deed ↗- SPRENGERS Stijn(oprichter) 33.3%
- WATERLOOS Anne-Marie(oprichter) 33.3%
- SPRENGERS Daphné(oprichter) 33.3%
Details
- Company number
- 0780.527.920
- VAT number
- BE 0780.527.920
- Registered office
- Leithstraat 16, 9000 Gent
- Names & denominations
- Knol en Kool
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 17 January 2022
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 12 Dec 2025
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