Warning lights
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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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 42.8 to 34.8.
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Busy address KBO
15 other companies have their registered office at the same address; threshold 10.
Financials
Financial year 2025
CUSTOMS4TRADE from Mechelen, company number BE0869621133, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -2.6 million after tax. For that financial year CUSTOMS4TRADE recorded a gross margin of € 6.1 million and equity of € 2 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -4 million to € -2.6 million. The company made a loss. The company holds a healthy buffer. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on July 3, 2026.
€ 2 million
▼ 9% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -2.6 million
▲ 37 % less loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 2.3 million
▲ 280% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -26.8 million.
People and assets in 2025
34.8
▼ 6.4 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 5.1 million
▲ 6% vs 2024
€ 145,900 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.
€ 89,907
▲ 17% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 2.3 million
▲ 2% vs 2024
€ 656,214 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 3 years.
€ 784,636
▲ 93% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 702,733
▲ 36% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Revenue | - | € 5,834,977 | - | - | |
| Gross margin | € 4,043,928 | - | € 5,017,573 | € 6,121,735 | ▲ 22% |
| Profit after taxes | € -8,242,026 | € -6,135,347 | € -4,035,687 | € -2,560,187 | ▲ € 1.5 million |
| Equity | € 8,289,986 | € 6,279,639 | € 2,243,952 | € 2,035,665 | ▼ 9% |
| Total debts | € 2,227,631 | € 1,912,357 | € 4,170,292 | € 6,131,244 | ▲ 47% |
| Cash | € 1,402,798 | € 1,012,106 | € 600,303 | € 2,280,204 | ▲ 280% |
| Retained profit | € -14,072,161 | € -20,207,508 | € -24,243,196 | € -26,803,382 | ▼ € 2.6 million |
| Bank debt | € 89,674 | € 21,414 | € 2,213,740 | € 2,258,328 | ▲ 2% |
| Balance sheet total | € 10,517,618 | € 8,191,996 | € 6,414,244 | € 8,166,909 | ▲ 27% |
| Employees (FTE) | 75 | 42.8 | 41.2 | 34.8 | ▼ 6.4 |
Key figures of CUSTOMS4TRADE, 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 CUSTOMS4TRADE?
What happened at CUSTOMS4TRADE in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Werner Koninckx BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Krause Wolfgang stepped down as director. NBB
- Michael Zips stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 2.6 million. Source: NBB ↗
- Werner Koninckx BV became a director. NBB
- Michael Zips became a director. NBB
- Krause Wolfgang became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Mechelen. KBO
In short
From € 8.2 million loss in 2022 to € 2.6 million loss in 2025.
Paid € 21,005 in corporate taxes since 2022.
On average € 175,900 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
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Krause Wolfgang
Director
since 2021 · until 2027
Michael Zips
Managing director
since 2022 · until 2027
Managing director · represented by Werner Koninckx
Also active at: NAVIUS CORPORATE FINANCE AND STRATEGY, 3E, Energy Transition Partners
since 2022 · until 2028
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Motstraat 30
2800 Mechelen
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Website
Technologies
Hosting & Email
Email provider
Microsoft 365
Hosting
MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK - Microsoft Corporation, US
Domain
Domain
customs4trade.com
Registered
2004-10-07
Registrar
Tucows Domains Inc.
Expires
2026-10-07
Website info
Features
Security
Details
- Company number
- 0869.621.133
- VAT number
- BE 0869.621.133
- Registered office
- Motstraat 30, 2800 Mechelen
- Names & denominations
- CUSTOMS4TRADE
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 25 October 2004
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 16 Mar 2026
- Contact
- customs4trade.com +32(15)460846
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