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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 5 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
La Traverse from Merelbeke-Melle, company number BE0891898271, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 28,737 after tax. For that financial year La Traverse recorded a gross margin of € 325,247 and equity of € 120,449. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 11,223 to € 28,737. 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 March 27, 2026.
€ 120,449
▲ 31% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 28,737
▲ 156% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 10,088
▼ 26% 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 € 61,149.
People and assets in 2025
€ 210,838
▼ 12% 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.
€ 23,684
▼ 61% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 431,535
▼ 14% vs 2024
€ 79,506 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 5 years.
€ 62,644
▼ 9% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 42,363
▼ 11% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 410,360 | € 397,959 | € 358,837 | € 325,247 | ▼ 9% |
| Profit after taxes | € -87,985 | € 10,339 | € 11,223 | € 28,737 | ▲ 156% |
| Equity | € 70,150 | € 80,489 | € 91,712 | € 120,449 | ▲ 31% |
| Total debts | € 795,628 | € 747,762 | € 679,611 | € 599,091 | ▼ 12% |
| Cash | € 5,072 | € 26,131 | € 13,594 | € 10,088 | ▼ 26% |
| Land & buildings | € 699,364 | € 656,110 | € 631,541 | € 592,464 | ▼ 6% |
| Retained profit | € 10,850 | € 21,189 | € 32,412 | € 61,149 | ▲ 89% |
| Bank debt | € 617,044 | € 569,692 | € 502,635 | € 431,535 | ▼ 14% |
| Balance sheet total | € 865,778 | € 828,250 | € 771,323 | € 719,540 | ▼ 7% |
| Employees (FTE) | - | 4.4 | - | - |
Key figures of La Traverse, 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 La Traverse?
What happened at La Traverse in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 28,737 (▲ 156% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Merelbeke-Melle. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 87,985 loss in 2022 to € 28,737 profit in 2025.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 28,737 profit.
On average € 90,400 of value added per employee in 2023.
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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 La Traverse is Mathijs Van Den Berghe.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Mathijs Van Den Berghe
Director
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Hundelgemsesteenweg 580
9820 Merelbeke-Melle
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Details
- Company number
- 0891.898.271
- VAT number
- BE 0891.898.271
- Registered office
- Hundelgemsesteenweg 580, 9820 Merelbeke-Melle
- Names & denominations
- La Traverse
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 6 September 2007
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- Active · Active since 14 Nov 2025
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