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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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2024 and 2025.
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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 59 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
THE LOUNGE from Vorst, company number BE0893054848, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -92,852 after tax. For that financial year THE LOUNGE recorded a gross margin of € 416,199 and equity of € 344,837. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -77,109 to € -92,852. The company made a loss. The company holds a healthy buffer. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on August 28, 2026.
€ 344,837
▼ 21% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -92,852
▼ 20 % more loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 74,330
▼ 34% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -139,992.
People and assets in 2025
€ 295,468
▲ 7% 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.
Debts at end 2025
None
No bank loans on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 92,065
▲ 15% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 30,420
▼ 25% vs 2024
Wages, holiday pay and social contributions still to pay. No outstanding taxes.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 241,128 | € 397,645 | € 383,833 | € 416,199 | ▲ 8% |
| Profit after taxes | € 105,072 | € 543 | € -77,109 | € -92,852 | ▼ € 15,742 |
| Equity | € 514,256 | € 514,799 | € 437,689 | € 344,837 | ▼ 21% |
| Total debts | € 239,665 | € 246,043 | € 266,696 | € 204,699 | ▼ 23% |
| Cash | € 124,667 | € 108,346 | € 111,971 | € 74,330 | ▼ 34% |
| Land & buildings | € 284,525 | € 268,776 | € 253,028 | € 237,280 | ▼ 6% |
| Retained profit | € -17,398 | € -1,247 | € -62,748 | € -139,992 | ▼ € 77,244 |
| Balance sheet total | € 753,921 | € 760,842 | € 704,385 | € 549,537 | ▼ 22% |
| Employees (FTE) | 2.9 | 3.6 | 4.4 | - |
Key figures of THE LOUNGE, 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 THE LOUNGE?
What happened at THE LOUNGE in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 92,852. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Paul Van Asbroeck stepped down as director. NBB
- Rolf Verlinden stepped down as director. NBB
- Rosette Vandermaesen stepped down as director. NBB
- Cees Zwaans stepped down as director. NBB
- Geert Bogaert became a director. NBB
- Rosette Vandermaesen became a director. NBB
- Cees Zwaans became a director. NBB
In short
From € 105,072 profit in 2022 to € 92,852 loss in 2025.
Paid € 70 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 105,072 profit.
On average € 87,200 of value added per employee in 2024.
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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 ZWAANS comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
THE LOUNGEBehind THE LOUNGE is Geert Bogaert. The shares are held by ZWAANS (12.7%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Geert Bogaert
Director
since 2022
since 2017 · until 2023
Rosette Vandermaesen
Director
since 2019 · until 2023
Rolf Verlinden
Director
since 2017 · until 2023
Cees Zwaans
Director
since 2019 · until 2023
Shareholders
12.7%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Besmelaan 71
1190 Vorst
Auguste Reyerslaan 136
1030 Schaarbeek
Active since 25 October 2007
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Details
- Company number
- 0893.054.848
- VAT number
- BE 0893.054.848
- Registered office
- Besmelaan 71, 1190 Vorst
- Names & denominations
- THE LOUNGE
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 25 October 2007
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 17 Dec 2025
- Contact
- [email protected]
- Activities · NACE
Hotels en dergelijke accommodatie
Hotels en motels, met restaurant
Catering van evenementen
Uitzendkoks en verzorgen van feesten en recepties