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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 47 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
COFATEX from Thimister-Clermont, company number BE0830904968, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 358,368 after tax. For that financial year COFATEX recorded a gross margin of € 531,212 and equity of € 1.1 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 407,983 to € 358,368. 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 July 27, 2026.
€ 1.1 million
▲ 8% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 358,368
▼ 12% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 79,900
▲ 7% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 277,633 paid out
77 % of the profit went to the shareholders, the rest stayed in the company.
People and assets in 2025
0.3
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 14,409
Payroll staff only. What the director pays themselves is already netted into the gross margin and is not shown separately in the accounts.
€ 4,022
▼ 37% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 529,066
▲ € 469,358 vs 2024
€ 5,178 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 99 years.
€ 129,387
▲ € 106,910 vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 178,361
▲ 103% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 133,556 | € 279,582 | € 531,134 | € 531,212 | |
| Profit after taxes | € 69,654 | € 141,343 | € 407,983 | € 358,368 | ▼ 12% |
| Equity | € 490,113 | € 631,456 | € 1,039,439 | € 1,120,174 | ▲ 8% |
| Total debts | € 595,889 | € 499,739 | € 536,208 | € 1,458,516 | ▲ 172% |
| Cash | € 190,478 | € 128,739 | € 74,783 | € 79,900 | ▲ 7% |
| Land & buildings | - | - | - | € 568,872 | |
| Retained profit | € 471,513 | € 612,856 | € 1,020,839 | € 1,101,574 | ▲ 8% |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 0 | € 0 | € 277,633 | |
| Bank debt | € 46,735 | € 75,751 | € 59,709 | € 529,066 | ▲ € 469,358 |
| Balance sheet total | € 1,086,002 | € 1,131,194 | € 1,575,647 | € 2,578,690 | ▲ 64% |
| Employees (FTE) | - | - | - | 0.3 |
Key figures of COFATEX, 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 COFATEX?
What happened at COFATEX in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 358,368 (▼ 12% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Welkenraedt. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
- FRANCOIS BAWIN became a director. NBB
In short
From € 69,654 profit in 2022 to € 358,368 profit in 2025.
Paid € 350,682 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 407,983 profit.
Paid out € 277,633 in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
Behind COFATEX is FRANCOIS BAWIN. It owns 100% of H&F SAINTE MAXIME SAS itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
FRANCOIS BAWIN
Manager
since 2010
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Chapelle des Anges 39
4890 Thimister-Clermont
Rue Mitoyenne 295
4840 Welkenraedt
Active since 9 December 2010
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0830.904.968
- VAT number
- BE 0830.904.968
- Registered office
- Chapelle des Anges 39, 4890 Thimister-Clermont
- Names & denominations
- COFATEX
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 5 November 2010
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 8 Sept 2026
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