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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 29 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
COSMETICARY from Brussel, company number BE0871818578, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -30,223 after tax. For that financial year COSMETICARY recorded a gross margin of € 367,521 and equity of € 57,651. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -14,937 to € -30,223. The company made a loss. The company holds a healthy buffer. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on August 4, 2026.
€ 57,651
▼ 34% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -30,223
▼ 102 % more loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 41,000
▲ 82% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -127,349.
People and assets in 2025
10.3
▲ 1.8 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 345,002
▲ 20% vs 2024
€ 33,500 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.
€ 8,319
▼ 48% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 369,615
▲ 172% vs 2024
€ 106,888 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 3 years.
€ 70,430
▼ 47% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 77,982
▼ 7% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 113,926 | € 295,524 | € 282,226 | € 367,521 | ▲ 30% |
| Profit after taxes | € 20,780 | € 77,434 | € -14,937 | € -30,223 | ▼ € 15,286 |
| Equity | € 25,376 | € 102,810 | € 87,873 | € 57,651 | ▼ 34% |
| Total debts | € 181,167 | € 205,613 | € 359,184 | € 523,478 | ▲ 46% |
| Cash | € 35,906 | € 46,104 | € 22,549 | € 41,000 | ▲ 82% |
| Retained profit | € -159,624 | € -82,190 | € -97,127 | € -127,349 | ▼ € 30,223 |
| Bank debt | € 41,201 | € 39,093 | € 136,051 | € 369,615 | ▲ 172% |
| Balance sheet total | € 206,542 | € 308,423 | € 447,057 | € 581,129 | ▲ 30% |
| Employees (FTE) | 2.1 | 4.5 | 8.5 | 10.3 | ▲ 1.8 |
Key figures of COSMETICARY, 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 COSMETICARY?
What happened at COSMETICARY in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Thomas VAN HAMME stepped down as director. NBB
- Jean RAUSIN stepped down as director. NBB
- Thierry SMETS stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 30,223. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Thomas VAN HAMME became a director. NBB
- Jean RAUSIN became a director. NBB
- Thierry SMETS became a director. NBB
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 20,780 profit in 2022 to € 30,223 loss in 2025.
Paid € 13,074 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 77,434 profit.
On average € 35,700 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
It owns 49.6% of COSMETICARY LUX itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
since 2023 · until 2029
Jean RAUSIN
Managing director
since 2023 · until 2029
Thierry SMETS
Director
Also active at: CONCORDE 68, SMETS CONCEPT STORE BRUSSELS, CLUTCH, IMMO-BOURBON
since 2023 · until 2029
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Auguste Ortsstraat 11B
1000 Brussel
Auguste Ortsstraat 11A&B
1000 Brussel
Active since 9 February 2005
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0871.818.578
- VAT number
- BE 0871.818.578
- Registered office
- Auguste Ortsstraat 11B, 1000 Brussel
- Names & denominations
- COSMETICARY
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 10 February 2005
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 20 Nov 2020
- Activities · NACE
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