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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 27 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
First Cut from Sint-Truiden, company number BE0784891930, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 533 after tax. For that financial year First Cut recorded a gross margin of € 248,039 and equity of € 53,978. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 21,883 to € 533. The company is profitable. 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 31, 2026.
€ 53,978
▲ 1% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 533
▼ 98% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 15,073
▼ 68% 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 € 43,978.
People and assets in 2025
3.5
▲ 0.5 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 189,080
▲ 23% vs 2024
€ 54,000 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.
€ 3,195
▼ 40% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 256,566
€ 29,987 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 7 years.
€ 136,304
▼ 81% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 56,961
▲ 31% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 401,007 | € 231,747 | € 248,039 | ▲ 7% |
| Profit after taxes | € 21,563 | € 21,883 | € 533 | ▼ 98% |
| Equity | € 31,563 | € 53,445 | € 53,978 | ▲ 1% |
| Total debts | € 864,813 | € 834,947 | € 568,629 | ▼ 32% |
| Cash | € 11,421 | € 47,081 | € 15,073 | ▼ 68% |
| Land & buildings | € 1,666 | € 1,497 | € 1,327 | ▼ 11% |
| Retained profit | € 21,563 | € 43,445 | € 43,978 | ▲ 1% |
| Bank debt | € 0 | € 0 | € 256,566 | |
| Balance sheet total | € 896,376 | € 888,392 | € 622,607 | ▼ 30% |
| Employees (FTE) | 3 | 3 | 3.5 | ▲ 0.5 |
Key figures of First Cut, fiscal years 2023 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 First Cut?
What happened at First Cut in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 533 (▼ 98% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Sint-Truiden. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
- Caroline Vandewijer became a director. NBB
- Fréderik Festraets became a director. NBB
In short
From € 21,563 profit in 2023 to € 533 profit in 2025.
Paid € 19,268 in corporate taxes since 2023.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 21,883 profit.
On average € 70,900 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 First Cut are Caroline Vandewijer and Fréderik Festraets.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Caroline Vandewijer
Director
since 2022
Fréderik Festraets
Director
since 2022
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Bedrijvenstraat 5830
3800 Sint-Truiden
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 2 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0784.891.930
- VAT number
- BE 0784.891.930
- Registered office
- Bedrijvenstraat 5830, 3800 Sint-Truiden
- Names & denominations
- First Cut
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 15 April 2022
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