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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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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 33.6 to 25.4.
Financials
Financial year 2025
HOSTELLERIE L'ESCO from Wetteren, company number BE0828462944, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 27,022 after tax. For that financial year HOSTELLERIE L'ESCO recorded a gross margin of € 632,758 and equity of € 160,115. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 2,927 to € 27,022. Profitable, and profit is growing. The buffer is growing. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on January 29, 2026.
€ 160,115
▲ 20% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 27,022
▲ € 24,095 vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 82,919
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Stays in the company
No dividend for 2025. Retained profit grew to € 85,115.
People and assets in 2025
25.4
▼ 3 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 458,115
▲ 3% vs 2024
€ 18,000 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.
€ 45,917
▲ 28% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 296,887
▼ 14% vs 2024
€ 49,138 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 6 years.
€ 67,664
▲ 36% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 62,197
▼ 7% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 473,320 | € 583,803 | € 597,865 | € 632,758 | ▲ 6% |
| Profit after taxes | € 36,811 | € -20,075 | € 2,927 | € 27,022 | ▲ € 24,095 |
| Equity | € 150,241 | € 130,166 | € 133,093 | € 160,115 | ▲ 20% |
| Total debts | € 585,266 | € 603,438 | € 590,915 | € 556,748 | ▼ 6% |
| Cash | € 38,721 | € 48,485 | € 83,144 | € 82,919 | |
| Land & buildings | € 476,995 | € 466,431 | € 386,831 | € 298,093 | ▼ 23% |
| Retained profit | € 75,241 | € 55,166 | € 58,093 | € 85,115 | ▲ 47% |
| Bank debt | € 365,344 | € 389,726 | € 344,109 | € 296,887 | ▼ 14% |
| Balance sheet total | € 735,507 | € 733,604 | € 724,007 | € 716,862 | ▼ 1% |
| Employees (FTE) | 23.9 | 33.6 | 28.4 | 25.4 | ▼ 3 |
Key figures of HOSTELLERIE L'ESCO, fiscal years 2022 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 HOSTELLERIE L'ESCO?
What happened at HOSTELLERIE L'ESCO in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New establishment in Gent. KBO
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 27,022 (▲ € 24,095 vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Mechelen. KBO
- New establishment in Wetteren. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 36,811 profit in 2022 to € 27,022 profit in 2025.
Paid € 9,375 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 36,811 profit.
On average € 24,900 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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Management
Behind HOSTELLERIE L'ESCO are Lies Vanzieleghem and Steven Buelens. Steven Buelens is also behind L'ESCO IMMO.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Lies Vanzieleghem
Director
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Stationsstraat 50
9230 Wetteren
Sassevaartstraat 47
9000 Gent
Active since 1 March 2026
Nauwstraat 5
2800 Mechelen
Active since 1 January 2021
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 1 companies are registered at this address.
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Website
Technologies
Hosting & Email
Email provider
Google Workspace
Hosting
DIGITALOCEAN-ASN - DigitalOcean, LLC, US
Domain
Domain
hostellerielesco.com
Registered
2011-06-15
Registrar
Ascio Technologies, Inc. Danmark - Filial af Ascio technologies, Inc. USA
Expires
2026-06-15
Website info
Features
Security
Details
- Company number
- 0828.462.944
- VAT number
- BE 0828.462.944
- Registered office
- Stationsstraat 50, 9230 Wetteren
- Names & denominations
- HOSTELLERIE L'ESCO
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 13 August 2010
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 10 Jul 2025
- Contact
- hostellerielesco.com
- Activities · NACE
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