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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 53 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Merckx Lamot from Mechelen, company number BE0803873840, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -31,273 after tax. For that financial year Merckx Lamot recorded a gross margin of € 1.5 million and equity of € 45,166. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 75,440 to € -31,273. The company made a loss. The company holds a healthy buffer. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on April 22, 2026.
€ 45,166
▼ 41% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -31,273
▼ still € 75,440 profit in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 384,972
▼ 3% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 44,166.
People and assets in 2025
27.8
▼ 3.6 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1 million
▼ 3% vs 2024
€ 37,600 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.
€ 603,473
▼ 24% vs 2024
Of which on lease € 597,535.
Debts at end 2025
€ 1.6 million
▼ 11% vs 2024
€ 228,928 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 7 years.
€ 915,672
▲ 30% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 117,648
▼ 26% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 1,526,187 | € 1,537,427 | ▲ 1% |
| Profit after taxes | € 75,440 | € -31,273 | ▼ € 106,713 |
| Equity | € 76,440 | € 45,166 | ▼ 41% |
| Total debts | € 2,634,052 | € 2,625,782 | |
| Cash | € 396,051 | € 384,972 | ▼ 3% |
| Land & buildings | € 129,206 | € 106,955 | ▼ 17% |
| Retained profit | € 75,440 | € 44,166 | ▼ 41% |
| Bank debt | € 1,770,238 | € 1,568,543 | ▼ 11% |
| Balance sheet total | € 2,710,491 | € 2,670,949 | ▼ 1% |
| Employees (FTE) | 31.4 | 27.8 | ▼ 3.6 |
Key figures of Merckx Lamot, fiscal years 2024 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 Merckx Lamot?
What happened at Merckx Lamot in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 31,273 (▼ € 106,713 vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Mechelen. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
- MEPHI NV became a director. NBB
In short
From € 75,440 profit in 2024 to € 31,273 loss in 2025.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 75,440 profit.
On average € 55,300 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
Behind Merckx Lamot is MEPHI NV. MEPHI NV is also behind Merckx-Voeding.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
since 2023
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Haverwerf 1
2800 Mechelen
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 1 companies are registered at this address.
All companies at this address →What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0803.873.840
- VAT number
- BE 0803.873.840
- Registered office
- Haverwerf 1, 2800 Mechelen
- Names & denominations
- Merckx Lamot
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 12 July 2023
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 2 Dec 2025
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