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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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Negative equity NBB
More debt than assets in 4 of the last 4 fiscal years.
Financials
Financial year 2025
CAFE WELKOM from Westerlo, company number BE0873655442, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 18,031 after tax. For that financial year CAFE WELKOM recorded a gross margin of € 115,972 and equity of € -71,310. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 122,998 to € 18,031. The company is profitable. More debts than assets. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on July 29, 2026.
€ -71,310
▲ € 18,031 vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 18,031
▼ 85% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 2,135
▲ 49% 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 € -83,810.
People and assets in 2025
€ 55,530
▲ 74% vs 2024
Payroll staff only. What the director pays themselves is already netted into the gross margin and is not shown separately in the accounts.
€ 42,674
▼ 23% vs 2024
Of which on lease € 2,695.
Debts at end 2025
€ 416,649
▲ 1% vs 2024
€ 29,020 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 14 years.
€ 101,202
▲ 60% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 39,173
▲ 248% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 40,124 | € 49,093 | € 185,199 | € 115,972 | ▼ 37% |
| Profit after taxes | € -15,937 | € -778 | € 122,998 | € 18,031 | ▼ 85% |
| Equity | € -211,561 | € -212,339 | € -89,341 | € -71,310 | ▲ € 18,031 |
| Total debts | € 556,824 | € 595,040 | € 511,249 | € 566,563 | ▲ 11% |
| Cash | € 1 | € 1,784 | € 1,435 | € 2,135 | ▲ 49% |
| Land & buildings | € 295,841 | € 272,390 | € 204,938 | € 192,486 | ▼ 6% |
| Retained profit | € -224,061 | € -224,839 | € -101,841 | € -83,810 | ▲ € 18,031 |
| Bank debt | € 490,747 | € 455,435 | € 411,853 | € 416,649 | ▲ 1% |
| Balance sheet total | € 345,263 | € 382,701 | € 421,908 | € 495,253 | ▲ 17% |
Key figures of CAFE WELKOM, 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 CAFE WELKOM?
What happened at CAFE WELKOM in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 18,031 (▼ 85% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Herentals. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
- Johan Helsen became a director. NBB
In short
From € 15,937 loss in 2022 to € 18,031 profit in 2025.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 122,998 profit.
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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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NMBS 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left ▼ 80%
bpost 18 May 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left from loss to profit
Management
Behind CAFE WELKOM is Johan Helsen. Johan Helsen is also behind CAFE WELKOM BILZEN.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
since 2005
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Ilse Velden 14
2260 Westerlo
Ring(NDW) 20
2200 Herentals
Active since 26 May 2005
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 1 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0873.655.442
- VAT number
- BE 0873.655.442
- Registered office
- Ilse Velden 14, 2260 Westerlo
- Names & denominations
- CAFE WELKOM
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 4 May 2005
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 1 Jan 2001
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