Financials
Financial year 2025
Cars & Invest from Meerhout, company number BE0828983972, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 38,172 after tax. For that financial year Cars & Invest recorded a gross margin of € 77,252 and equity of € 319,310. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 64,274 to € 38,172. The company is profitable. The buffer is growing. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on March 25, 2026.
€ 319,310
▲ 17% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 38,172
▼ 41% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 43,494
▼ 8% 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 € 309,310.
People and assets in 2025
€ 1,230
▲ 31% vs 2024
Payroll staff only. What the director pays themselves is already netted into the gross margin and is not shown separately in the accounts.
€ 12,762
▼ 44% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 42,212
▲ 23% vs 2024
€ 12,447 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 3 years.
€ 16,355
▼ 34% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 13,776
▼ 53% vs 2024
Corporate tax and VAT still to pay. No wage debt: nothing outstanding to staff or social security.
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| 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 124,901 | € 77,252 | ▼ 38% |
| Profit after taxes | € 64,274 | € 38,172 | ▼ 41% |
| Equity | € 272,433 | € 319,310 | ▲ 17% |
| Total debts | € 130,779 | € 128,082 | ▼ 2% |
| Cash | € 47,114 | € 43,494 | ▼ 8% |
| Land & buildings | € 164,510 | € 163,375 | ▼ 1% |
| Retained profit | € 262,433 | € 309,310 | ▲ 18% |
| Bank debt | € 34,199 | € 42,212 | ▲ 23% |
| Balance sheet total | € 403,212 | € 447,391 | ▲ 11% |
Key figures of Cars & Invest, 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 April 2027.
What happened to Cars & Invest?
What happened at Cars & Invest in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 38,172 (▼ 41% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Meerhout. KBO
- Patrick Louis Smets became a director. NBB
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 64,274 profit in 2024 to € 38,172 profit in 2025.
Paid € 45,003 in corporate taxes since 2024.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 64,274 profit.
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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 Cars & Invest are Patricia Ribus and Patrick Louis Smets. It owns Vastgoed Ribus itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Patricia Ribus
Director
since 2010
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Moenstraat 39 box 1
2450 Meerhout
Moenstraat 39
2450 Meerhout
Active since 1 September 2010
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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Details
- Company number
- 0828.983.972
- VAT number
- BE 0828.983.972
- Registered office
- Moenstraat 39 bus 1, 2450 Meerhout
- Names & denominations
- Cars & Invest
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 16 August 2010
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 24 Nov 2023
- Activities · NACE
Carrosserieherstelling (inclusief spuiten en verven)
Carrosserieherstelling
Groothandel in aanhangwagens, opleggers en caravans
Algemeen onderhoud en reparatie van auto's en lichte bestelwagens (<= 3,5 ton)
Detailhandel in auto's en lichte bestelwagens (<= 3,5 ton)
Detailhandel in auto's en lichte bestelwagens (= 3,5 ton)
Handel in aanhangwagens, opleggers en caravans
Algemeen onderhoud en reparatie van auto's en lichte bestelwagens (= 3,5 ton)