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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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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2024 and 2025.
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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 51 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
General Floating Equipment from Antwerpen, company number BE0849095933, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -180,435 after tax. For that financial year General Floating Equipment recorded a gross margin of € 87,058 and equity of € 70,799. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -399,355 to € -180,435. The company made a loss. The buffer shrank hard: equity is 72 % below last year. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on October 16, 2026.
€ 70,799
▼ 72% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -180,435
▲ 55 % less loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 85
▼ 78% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -534,201.
People and assets in 2025
1.1
▲ 0.6 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 93,722
▲ 15% vs 2024
€ 85,200 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.
€ 28,227
▼ 37% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 980,696
▼ 14% vs 2024
€ 27,577 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 17 years.
€ 587,544
▲ 8% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 18,780
▼ 81% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 342,301 | € 266,746 | € -200,619 | € 87,058 | ▲ € 287,677 |
| Profit after taxes | € 107,191 | € 682 | € -399,355 | € -180,435 | ▲ € 218,920 |
| Equity | € 229,907 | € 650,589 | € 251,234 | € 70,799 | ▼ 72% |
| Total debts | € 1,273,627 | € 910,631 | € 1,788,890 | € 2,158,172 | ▲ 21% |
| Cash | € 10,076 | € 9,893 | € 380 | € 85 | ▼ 78% |
| Land & buildings | - | € 4,943 | € 4,404 | € 3,864 | ▼ 12% |
| Retained profit | € 224,907 | € 225,589 | € -173,766 | € -534,201 | ▼ € 360,435 |
| Bank debt | € 381,246 | € 422,254 | € 1,138,892 | € 980,696 | ▼ 14% |
| Balance sheet total | € 1,503,534 | € 1,561,220 | € 2,040,124 | € 2,228,972 | ▲ 9% |
| Employees (FTE) | - | 1.7 | 0.5 | 1.1 | ▲ 0.6 |
Key figures of General Floating Equipment, 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 General Floating Equipment?
What happened at General Floating Equipment in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 180,435. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Barbara VAN DER STEEN became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Antwerpen. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 107,191 profit in 2022 to € 180,435 loss in 2025.
Paid € 75,463 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 107,191 profit.
On average € 79,100 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
Behind General Floating Equipment is Barbara VAN DER STEEN. Barbara VAN DER STEEN is also behind BEZEMER BUILDING, Bezemer en Co. and PLAISANCE.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
since 2019
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Vosseschijnstraat 43D box 1e verd.
2030 Antwerpen
Vosseschijnstraat zn
2030 Antwerpen
Active since 26 September 2012
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 9 companies are registered at this address.
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- Company number
- 0849.095.933
- VAT number
- BE 0849.095.933
- Registered office
- Vosseschijnstraat 43D bus 1e verd., 2030 Antwerpen
- Names & denominations
- General Floating Equipment · GFE
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 26 September 2012
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 16 Dec 2025
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