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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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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2024 and 2025.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 15 to 12.
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Busy address KBO
11 other companies have their registered office at the same address; threshold 10.
Financials
Financial year 2025
European Staal Belgium from Antwerpen, company number BE0820534876, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -1.2 million after tax. For that financial year European Staal Belgium recorded a gross margin of € 143,886 and equity of € 7.2 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -2.1 million to € -1.2 million. The company made a loss. The company holds a healthy buffer. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on August 27, 2026.
€ 7.2 million
▼ 15% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -1.2 million
▲ 42 % less loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 181,725
▼ 67% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 7.2 million.
People and assets in 2025
12
▼ 2.3 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.3 million
▲ 3% vs 2024
€ 110,000 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.
Debts at end 2025
€ 1.9 million
▲ 7% vs 2024
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 714,457
▼ 46% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 226,071
▲ 2% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 108,574,784 | € 37,148,855 | € 10,573,034 | - | |
| Gross margin | - | - | - | € 143,886 | |
| Profit after taxes | € 3,066,744 | € -2,213,541 | € -2,125,446 | € -1,231,244 | ▲ € 894,203 |
| Equity | € 12,765,736 | € 10,552,195 | € 8,426,748 | € 7,195,505 | ▼ 15% |
| Total debts | € 7,800,200 | € 4,818,272 | € 3,297,441 | € 2,833,718 | ▼ 14% |
| Cash | € 951,409 | € 3,400,604 | € 550,237 | € 181,725 | ▼ 67% |
| Retained profit | € 12,746,736 | € 10,533,195 | € 8,407,748 | € 7,176,505 | ▼ 15% |
| Dividend | € 2,785,000 | € 0 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Bank debt | € 5,627,517 | € 3,195,184 | € 1,730,718 | € 1,850,718 | ▲ 7% |
| Balance sheet total | € 20,565,936 | € 15,370,467 | € 11,724,189 | € 10,029,222 | ▼ 14% |
| Employees (FTE) | 15.3 | 15 | 14.3 | 12 | ▼ 2.3 |
Key figures of European Staal Belgium, 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 European Staal Belgium?
What happened at European Staal Belgium in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 1.2 million. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- European Staal BV became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Antwerpen. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 3.1 million profit in 2022 to € 1.2 million loss in 2025.
Paid € 1.1 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 3.1 million profit.
On average € 12,000 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
Behind European Staal Belgium is European Staal BV.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
European Staal BV
Director · represented by Amaury Helssen
since 2025
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Generaal Lemanstraat 74
2600 Antwerpen
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Details
- Company number
- 0820.534.876
- VAT number
- BE 0820.534.876
- Registered office
- Generaal Lemanstraat 74, 2600 Antwerpen
- Names & denominations
- European Staal Belgium
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 9 November 2009
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