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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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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 46 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Busy address KBO
13 other companies have their registered office at the same address; threshold 10.
Financials
Financial year 2025
PREFER METAL from Flémalle, company number BE0837746735, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -188,450 after tax. For that financial year PREFER METAL recorded a gross margin of € 1.1 million and equity of € 99,235. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 20,824 to € -188,450. The company made a loss. The buffer shrank hard: equity is 66 % below last year. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on April 28, 2026.
€ 99,235
▼ 66% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -188,450
▼ still € 20,824 profit in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 2,194
▲ 74% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -765.
People and assets in 2025
16.6
▼ 2 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.1 million
▲ 6% vs 2024
€ 65,400 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.
€ 20,178
▼ 26% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 1.3 million
▲ 55% vs 2024
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 688,941
▲ 62% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 131,096
▼ 2% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 3,583,698 | - | € 3,902,325 | - | |
| Gross margin | - | € 1,169,596 | € 1,243,186 | € 1,120,396 | ▼ 10% |
| Profit after taxes | € 141,690 | € -53,767 | € 20,824 | € -188,450 | ▼ € 209,274 |
| Equity | € 335,483 | € 271,914 | € 288,106 | € 99,235 | ▼ 66% |
| Total debts | € 1,041,125 | € 1,504,452 | € 1,404,813 | € 2,136,687 | ▲ 52% |
| Cash | € 7,979 | € 2,904 | € 1,264 | € 2,194 | ▲ 74% |
| Land & buildings | € 19,828 | € 13,151 | € 7,096 | € 5,558 | ▼ 22% |
| Retained profit | € 220,628 | € 166,861 | € 187,685 | € -765 | ▼ € 188,450 |
| Bank debt | € 0 | € 0 | € 821,847 | € 1,277,824 | ▲ 55% |
| Balance sheet total | € 1,384,256 | € 1,778,966 | € 1,693,135 | € 2,235,922 | ▲ 32% |
| Employees (FTE) | 18.8 | 18.4 | 18.6 | 16.6 | ▼ 2 |
Key figures of PREFER METAL, 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 PREFER METAL?
What happened at PREFER METAL in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 188,450 (▼ € 209,274 vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- FINAWIRS SA stepped down as director. NBB
- CoGe4 SRL stepped down as director. NBB
- FINAWIRS SA became a director. NBB
- CoGe4 SRL became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Liège. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 141,690 profit in 2022 to € 188,450 loss in 2025.
Paid € 42,068 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 141,690 profit.
On average € 67,500 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 GROUPE PREFER INDUSTRIES comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
PREFER METALThe shares are held by GROUPE PREFER INDUSTRIES (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Chairman of the board · represented by PAUL PORTIER
Also active at: PREFER Services, PREFER CONSTRUCT, PREFER PREFAB, GROUPE PREFER INDUSTRIES, GPImmo, GPS2, GPF1, RAIL PARK INDUSTRIES
since 2023 · until 2026
Managing director · represented by Raphaël GRIMONT
Also active at: PREFER Services, PREFER CONSTRUCT, PREFER PREFAB, GROUPE PREFER INDUSTRIES, GPImmo, GPS2, GPF1
since 2023 · until 2026
Shareholders
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Sart d'Avette 110
4400 Flémalle
Bld Ernest-Solvay 208
4000 Liège
Active since 26 July 2011
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 13 companies are registered at this address.
All companies at this address →PREFER Services same network
€ 909,325 gross margin · 2025
PREFER CONSTRUCT same network
€ 11.3 million revenue · 2025
GROUPE PREFER INDUSTRIES same network
€ 2.6 million revenue · 2025
GPImmo same network
€ 361,746 gross margin · 2025
GPS2 same network
€ 248,541 gross margin · 2025
+8 more
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0837.746.735
- VAT number
- BE 0837.746.735
- Registered office
- Sart d'Avette 110, 4400 Flémalle
- Names & denominations
- PREFER METAL
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 11 July 2011
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 25 Nov 2025
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