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Busy address KBO
10 other companies have their registered office at the same address; threshold 10.
Financials
Financial year 2025
AQ Rate from Sint-Gillis (bij-Brussel), company number BE0847128318, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 71 after tax. For that financial year AQ Rate recorded a gross margin of € 331,221 and equity of € 478,613. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 3,674 to € 71. 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 October 31, 2025.
€ 478,613
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 71
▼ 98% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 247,273
▼ 20% 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 € 53,613.
People and assets in 2025
€ 172,207
Payroll staff only. What the director pays themselves is already netted into the gross margin and is not shown separately in the accounts.
€ 628
▼ 85% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 123,636
▼ 17% vs 2024
€ 32,179 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 4 years.
€ 47,235
▼ 73% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 12,821
▼ 27% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 260,382 | € 311,433 | € 325,751 | € 331,221 | ▲ 2% |
| Profit after taxes | € 7,817 | € 3,883 | € 3,674 | € 71 | ▼ 98% |
| Equity | € 470,986 | € 474,869 | € 478,543 | € 478,613 | |
| Total debts | € 453,093 | € 482,371 | € 345,349 | € 184,332 | ▼ 47% |
| Cash | € 194,988 | € 231,724 | € 308,643 | € 247,273 | ▼ 20% |
| Land & buildings | € 103,650 | € 83,181 | € 62,755 | € 43,524 | ▼ 31% |
| Retained profit | € 45,986 | € 49,869 | € 53,543 | € 53,613 | |
| Bank debt | € 196,414 | € 176,283 | € 148,999 | € 123,636 | ▼ 17% |
| Balance sheet total | € 924,079 | € 957,240 | € 823,891 | € 662,945 | ▼ 20% |
| Employees (FTE) | 2.1 | 2.1 | 2.1 | - |
Key figures of AQ Rate, 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 AQ Rate?
What happened at AQ Rate in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 71 (▼ 98% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Sint-Gillis (bij-Brussel). KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
- VKD Consult became a director. NBB
In short
From € 7,817 profit in 2022 to € 71 profit in 2025.
Paid € 23,365 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 7,817 profit.
On average € 155,100 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
The stake of DIRO INVEST, vkd consult, BBAM COMMUNICATIONS comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
AQ RateBehind AQ Rate is VKD Consult. The shares are held by DIRO INVEST (70.6%), vkd consult (29.4%) and BBAM COMMUNICATIONS (12.6%). It owns 100% of ANT RESEARCH, 100% of Z Consult and 100% of Research Solution itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Manager · represented by Didier Van Kesteren
since 2012
Shareholders
Participations
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Waterlose Steenweg 255
1060 Sint-Gillis (bij-Brussel)
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 10 companies are registered at this address.
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GESTION-ASSISTANCE
Secrétariat européen des Pratiques de Santé communautaire
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What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0847.128.318
- VAT number
- BE 0847.128.318
- Registered office
- Waterlose Steenweg 255, 1060 Sint-Gillis (bij-Brussel)
- Names & denominations
- AQ Rate
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 4 July 2012
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