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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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 42 % of short-term debt in 2024; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2024
Cools Dairy from Meerhout, company number BE0890208491, closed financial year 2024 with a result of € 1.1 million after tax. For that financial year Cools Dairy recorded a gross margin of € 3.5 million and equity of € 5.4 million. Compared with financial year 2023, the result moved from € 243,597 to € 1.1 million. Profitable, and profit is growing. The buffer is growing. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on November 5, 2025.
€ 5.4 million
▲ 25% vs 2023
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 1.1 million
▲ € 824,758 vs 2023
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 1.3 million
▲ 14% vs 2023
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Stays in the company
No dividend for 2024. Retained profit grew to € 5.4 million.
People and assets in 2024
0
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 770,981
▲ 3% vs 2023
Of which on lease € 715,926.
Debts at end 2024
€ 12.1 million
▲ 1% vs 2023
€ 1.5 million is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 8 years.
€ 1.5 million
▲ 35% vs 2023
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 38,162
▲ 204% vs 2023
Corporate tax and VAT still to pay. No wage debt: nothing outstanding to staff or social security.
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| 2023 | 2024 | Change 2023 → 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 2,102,919 | € 3,530,090 | ▲ 68% |
| Profit after taxes | € 243,597 | € 1,068,356 | ▲ € 824,758 |
| Equity | € 4,350,140 | € 5,417,088 | ▲ 25% |
| Total debts | € 14,028,730 | € 14,402,008 | ▲ 3% |
| Cash | € 1,177,093 | € 1,341,523 | ▲ 14% |
| Land & buildings | € 10,376,637 | € 11,258,501 | ▲ 8% |
| Retained profit | € 4,306,083 | € 5,374,438 | ▲ 25% |
| Bank debt | € 12,029,076 | € 12,094,404 | ▲ 1% |
| Balance sheet total | € 18,379,539 | € 19,850,848 | ▲ 8% |
Key figures of Cools Dairy, fiscal years 2023 to 2024, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.The annual account for fiscal year 2025 has not been filed yet; it was expected before 31 July 2026.
What happened to Cools Dairy?
What happened at Cools Dairy in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2024: profit of € 1.1 million (▲ € 824,758 vs 2023). filed late Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Meerhout. KBO
- New establishment in Meerhout. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 243,597 profit in 2023 to € 1.1 million profit in 2024.
Paid € 295,904 in corporate taxes since 2023.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 1.1 million 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
The stake of Holdco Wim, Holdco Wouter comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
Cools DairyBehind Cools Dairy are Willy Cools, Wim COOLS, Stefaan Cools, Diana Willems and Wouter Cools. The shares are held by Holdco Wim (25%) and Holdco Wouter (25%).
Directors
According to the 2024 annual accounts
Diana Willems
Director
Shareholders
25%
25%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Weierstraat 6
2450 Meerhout
Hovesteenseweg 96
2450 Meerhout
Active since 18 July 2007
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
- 0890.208.491
- VAT number
- BE 0890.208.491
- Registered office
- Weierstraat 6, 2450 Meerhout
- Names & denominations
- Cools Dairy
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 20 June 2007
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 6 Oct 2025
- Activities · NACE
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