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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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Negative equity NBB
More debt than assets in 1 of the last 4 fiscal years.
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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 44 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
read my lips from Kalmthout, company number BE0831645732, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -215,272 after tax. For that financial year read my lips recorded a gross margin of € -8,105 and equity of € -114,830. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 448 to € -215,272. The company made a loss. More debts than assets. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on July 8, 2026.
€ -114,830
▼ € 215,272 vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -215,272
▼ still € 448 profit in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 1,385
▼ 99% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -134,830.
People and assets in 2025
2.3
▲ 0.6 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 194,568
▲ 42% vs 2024
€ 84,600 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.
€ 48,956
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
None
No bank loans on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 117,364
▼ 41% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 28,248
▼ 13% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 182,687 | € 215,363 | € 141,716 | € -8,105 | ▼ € 149,821 |
| Profit after taxes | € 68,056 | € 60,711 | € 448 | € -215,272 | ▼ € 215,719 |
| Equity | € 39,284 | € 99,995 | € 100,442 | € -114,830 | ▼ € 215,272 |
| Total debts | € 171,367 | € 141,359 | € 230,358 | € 297,861 | ▲ 29% |
| Cash | € 20,644 | € 142,246 | € 148,359 | € 1,385 | ▼ 99% |
| Retained profit | € 19,284 | € 79,995 | € 80,442 | € -134,830 | ▼ € 215,272 |
| Balance sheet total | € 210,650 | € 241,353 | € 330,800 | € 183,031 | ▼ 45% |
| Employees (FTE) | 1.4 | 1.8 | 1.7 | 2.3 | ▲ 0.6 |
Key figures of read my lips, 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 read my lips?
What happened at read my lips in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 215,272 (▼ € 215,719 vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Amusing ourselves BV became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Kalmthout. KBO
- New establishment in Antwerpen. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 68,056 profit in 2022 to € 215,272 loss in 2025.
Paid € 12,160 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 68,056 profit.
On average € 83,400 of value added per employee in 2024.
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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 read my lips is Amusing ourselves BV. The shares are held by Amusing ourselves (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Thom Pelckmans
Also active at: THEORIA, PELCKMANS UITGEVERS, MEDIO, YoYo Books Belgium, All About Books, Casinoplein 10, FIBRE MOOD, SIOUX +6 more
since 2020
Shareholders
100%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Brasschaatsteenweg (C) 308
2920 Kalmthout
Mechelsesteenweg 271 box 11.1
2018 Antwerpen
Active since 9 December 2010
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 4 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0831.645.732
- VAT number
- BE 0831.645.732
- Registered office
- Brasschaatsteenweg (C) 308, 2920 Kalmthout
- Names & denominations
- read my lips
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 1 December 2010
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