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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 49 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
WAS-CO car cleaning & handling from Mechelen, company number BE0895172814, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 5,308 after tax. For that financial year WAS-CO car cleaning & handling recorded a gross margin of € 240,398 and equity of € 139,487. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 23,445 to € 5,308. The company is profitable. The buffer is growing. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on June 22, 2026.
€ 139,487
▲ 4% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 5,308
▼ 77% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 55,379
▼ 1% 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 € 133,287.
People and assets in 2025
€ 174,168
▼ 5% 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.
€ 39,400
▼ 33% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 162,959
▼ 20% vs 2024
€ 18,161 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 1 years.
€ 47,300
▲ 2% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 12,802
▼ 46% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 223,363 | € 328,828 | € 280,093 | € 240,398 | ▼ 14% |
| Profit after taxes | € -14,428 | € 48,655 | € 23,445 | € 5,308 | ▼ 77% |
| Equity | € 92,089 | € 140,744 | € 134,179 | € 139,487 | ▲ 4% |
| Total debts | € 303,814 | € 329,726 | € 294,365 | € 244,159 | ▼ 17% |
| Cash | € 32,881 | € 56,405 | € 56,017 | € 55,379 | ▼ 1% |
| Land & buildings | € 249,354 | € 225,716 | € 203,893 | € 192,259 | ▼ 6% |
| Retained profit | € 85,889 | € 134,544 | € 127,979 | € 133,287 | ▲ 4% |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 0 | € 30,010 | € 0 | ▼ 100% |
| Bank debt | € 236,099 | € 205,399 | € 203,044 | € 162,959 | ▼ 20% |
| Balance sheet total | € 395,903 | € 470,470 | € 428,543 | € 383,646 | ▼ 10% |
Key figures of WAS-CO car cleaning & handling, 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 WAS-CO car cleaning & handling?
What happened at WAS-CO car cleaning & handling in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 5,308 (▼ 77% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Linda Van De Velde stepped down as director. NBB
- New establishment in Mechelen. KBO
- Gert Schelfhout became a director. NBB
- Linda Van De Velde became a director. NBB
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 14,428 loss in 2022 to € 5,308 profit in 2025.
Paid € 34,153 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 48,655 profit.
Paid out € 30,010 in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
Behind WAS-CO car cleaning & handling is Gert Schelfhout.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Gert Schelfhout
Director
since 2008
Linda Van De Velde
Director
since 2008 · until 2025
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Egide Walschaertsstraat 22 box B
2800 Mechelen
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 5 companies are registered at this address.
All companies at this address →What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0895.172.814
- VAT number
- BE 0895.172.814
- Registered office
- Egide Walschaertsstraat 22 bus B, 2800 Mechelen
- Names & denominations
- WAS-CO car cleaning & handling
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 23 January 2008
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 4 Jul 2025
- Activities · NACE
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