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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 46 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
GEBROEDERS WAUTERS - MERTENS from Berlare, company number BE0797843707, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 49,802 after tax. For that financial year GEBROEDERS WAUTERS - MERTENS recorded a gross margin of € 419,932 and equity of € 278,219. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 288,418 to € 49,802. 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 February 2, 2026.
€ 278,219
▲ 22% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 49,802
▼ 83% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 260,089
▲ € 217,031 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 € 248,219.
People and assets in 2025
2.7
▲ 1.4 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 155,030
▲ 300% vs 2024
€ 57,400 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.
€ 144,334
▲ € 139,997 vs 2024
Of which on lease € 42,537.
Debts at end 2025
€ 1.5 million
▲ 35% vs 2024
€ 95,522 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 11 years.
€ 1.1 million
▲ 137% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 20,105
▼ 36% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 606,674 | € 419,932 | ▼ 31% |
| Profit after taxes | € 288,418 | € 49,802 | ▼ 83% |
| Equity | € 228,418 | € 278,219 | ▲ 22% |
| Total debts | € 2,111,012 | € 2,882,065 | ▲ 37% |
| Cash | € 43,059 | € 260,089 | ▲ € 217,031 |
| Land & buildings | € 1,105,623 | € 1,077,880 | ▼ 3% |
| Retained profit | € 198,418 | € 248,219 | ▲ 25% |
| Dividend | € 90,000 | € 0 | ▼ 100% |
| Bank debt | € 1,081,282 | € 1,461,519 | ▲ 35% |
| Balance sheet total | € 2,339,430 | € 3,160,285 | ▲ 35% |
| Employees (FTE) | 1.3 | 2.7 | ▲ 1.4 |
Key figures of GEBROEDERS WAUTERS - MERTENS, fiscal years 2024 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2026) expected before 30 January 2027.
What happened to GEBROEDERS WAUTERS - MERTENS?
What happened at GEBROEDERS WAUTERS - MERTENS in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 49,802 (▼ 83% vs 2024). filed late Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Berlare. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 288,418 profit in 2024 to € 49,802 profit in 2025.
Paid € 77,282 in corporate taxes since 2024.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 288,418 profit.
On average € 155,500 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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Management
The stake of WAUTERS, JWORKX comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
GEBROEDERS WAUTERS - MERTENSBehind GEBROEDERS WAUTERS - MERTENS are Jworkx BV and Wauters BV. The shares are held by WAUTERS (50%) and JWORKX (50%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Jorik WAUTERS
Director · represented by Jorden WAUTERS
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Dendermondse Steenweg(O) 88
9290 Berlare
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
- 0797.843.707
- VAT number
- BE 0797.843.707
- Registered office
- Dendermondse Steenweg(O) 88, 9290 Berlare
- Names & denominations
- GEBROEDERS WAUTERS - MERTENS
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 31 January 2023
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