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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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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 24.7 to 21.5.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Colors from Dendermonde, company number BE0881445136, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -520,483 after tax. For that financial year Colors recorded a gross margin of € 1.1 million and equity of € 379,763. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -169,193 to € -520,483. The company made a loss. The buffer shrank hard: equity is 58 % below last year. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on July 1, 2026.
€ 379,763
▼ 58% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -520,483
▼ 208 % more loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 246,032
▼ 10% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -270,237.
People and assets in 2025
21.5
▼ 1.9 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.2 million
▼ 5% vs 2024
€ 55,900 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.
€ 236,785
▼ 16% vs 2024
Of which on lease € 223,251.
Debts at end 2025
€ 2.3 million
▼ 7% vs 2024
€ 217,085 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 10 years.
€ 196,033
▲ 51% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 102,551
▲ 4% 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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| Gross margin | € 1,806,554 | € 1,733,188 | € 1,462,714 | € 1,060,272 | ▼ 28% |
| Profit after taxes | € 162,450 | € 86,338 | € -169,193 | € -520,483 | ▼ € 351,289 |
| Equity | € 983,100 | € 1,069,439 | € 900,245 | € 379,763 | ▼ 58% |
| Total debts | € 3,456,903 | € 2,943,278 | € 2,735,909 | € 2,637,228 | ▼ 4% |
| Cash | € 667,663 | € 351,538 | € 273,655 | € 246,032 | ▼ 10% |
| Retained profit | € 333,100 | € 419,439 | € 250,245 | € -270,237 | ▼ € 520,483 |
| Dividend | € 139,695 | € 0 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Bank debt | € 2,861,816 | € 2,704,726 | € 2,494,869 | € 2,312,813 | ▼ 7% |
| Balance sheet total | € 4,503,557 | € 4,012,716 | € 3,636,154 | € 3,016,991 | ▼ 17% |
| Employees (FTE) | 24.8 | 24.7 | 23.4 | 21.5 | ▼ 1.9 |
Key figures of Colors, 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 Colors?
What happened at Colors in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 520,483. Source: NBB ↗
- Philip Thuysbaert stepped down as director. NBB
- MERAUDE BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Vermacon BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Philip Thuysbaert became a director. NBB
- MERAUDE BV became a director. NBB
- Vermacon BV became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Dendermonde. KBO
In short
From € 162,450 profit in 2022 to € 520,483 loss in 2025.
Paid € 1,214 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 162,450 profit.
On average € 49,300 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
The stake of Van Gils Group, I.S.P. INVEST, VMT Invest comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
ColorsBehind Colors is Van Gils Group BV. The shares are held by Van Gils Group (100%), I.S.P. INVEST (30%) and VMT Invest (30%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Joep Van Gils
Also active at: ImmoRAL, Limburgse Galvanisatie en Electro-Beton, METALCOATING, COATAL, DECORMETAL, Van Gils Coating, JS Coating Pelt, Van Gils Investments +4 more
since 2024 · until 2026
since 2024 · until 2026
Managing director · represented by Ivo Vermeeren
Also active at: VMT Invest, I.S.P. INVEST
since 2024 · until 2026
Shareholders
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Vosmeer (STG) 7
9200 Dendermonde
Vosmeer (STG) 18
9200 Dendermonde
Active since 1 August 2021
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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Website
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Email provider
Microsoft 365
Hosting
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Website info
Features
Security
Details
- Company number
- 0881.445.136
- VAT number
- BE 0881.445.136
- Registered office
- Vosmeer (STG) 7, 9200 Dendermonde
- Names & denominations
- Colors
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 22 May 2006
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 27 Mar 2026
- Contact
- colorsnv.be
- Activities · NACE
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