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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 53 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
't stad leest from Antwerpen, company number BE0834626305, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 8,459 after tax. For that financial year 't stad leest recorded a gross margin of € 536,601 and equity of € 102,203. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -173 to € 8,459. Profitable, and profit is growing. The buffer is growing. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on October 7, 2025.
€ 102,203
▲ 9% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 8,459
▲ still € 173 loss in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 196,305
▲ € 165,865 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 € 82,203.
People and assets in 2025
19.8
▲ 3.6 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 407,225
▼ 2% vs 2024
€ 20,600 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.
€ 7,686
▲ € 7,140 vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 854,285
▲ 11% vs 2024
€ 156,313 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 5 years.
€ 245,017
▼ 12% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 97,936
▼ 1% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 455,916 | € 531,652 | € 523,822 | € 536,601 | ▲ 2% |
| Profit after taxes | € -6,365 | € 5,073 | € -173 | € 8,459 | ▲ € 8,632 |
| Equity | € 88,844 | € 93,917 | € 93,744 | € 102,203 | ▲ 9% |
| Total debts | € 1,071,339 | € 1,158,397 | € 1,151,635 | € 1,252,332 | ▲ 9% |
| Cash | € 37,009 | € 101,231 | € 30,440 | € 196,305 | ▲ € 165,865 |
| Land & buildings | € 58,709 | € 51,309 | € 43,909 | € 36,509 | ▼ 17% |
| Retained profit | € 68,844 | € 73,917 | € 73,744 | € 82,203 | ▲ 11% |
| Bank debt | € 764,474 | € 897,738 | € 769,438 | € 854,285 | ▲ 11% |
| Balance sheet total | € 1,160,183 | € 1,252,314 | € 1,245,379 | € 1,354,535 | ▲ 9% |
| Employees (FTE) | - | 12.9 | 16.2 | 19.8 | ▲ 3.6 |
Key figures of 't stad leest, 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 October 2026.
What happened to 't stad leest?
What happened at 't stad leest in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 8,459. Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Antwerpen. KBO
- Amusing Ourselves BV became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Antwerpen. KBO
- Sofie Van der Ven became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Antwerpen. KBO
- Wouter Cajot became a director. NBB
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 6,365 loss in 2022 to € 8,459 profit in 2025.
Paid € 1,564 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 8,459 profit.
On average € 27,100 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
The stake of Amusing ourselves comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
't stad leestBehind 't stad leest are Amusing Ourselves BV, Wouter Cajot and Sofie Van der Ven. The shares are held by Amusing ourselves (50%).
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 2022
since 2011
since 2017
Shareholders
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Oudaan 18
2000 Antwerpen
Kleine Markt 14
2000 Antwerpen
Active since 1 August 2017
Korte Gasthuisstraat 12
2000 Antwerpen
Active since 23 May 2025
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
- 0834.626.305
- VAT number
- BE 0834.626.305
- Registered office
- Oudaan 18, 2000 Antwerpen
- Names & denominations
- 't stad leest
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 16 March 2011
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 30 Jan 2025
- Activities · NACE
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