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Figures corrected NBB
Corrected annual account filed for 2025.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Lean Mean Business from Houthalen-Helchteren, company number BE0895858346, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 130,319 after tax. For that financial year Lean Mean Business recorded a gross margin of € -47,529 and equity of € 15.5 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -470,380 to € 130,319. Profitable, and profit is growing. 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 October 22, 2026.
€ 15.5 million
▲ 1% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 130,319
▲ still € 470,380 loss in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 1.3 million
▼ 28% 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 € 10.4 million.
People and assets in 2025
2
▼ 0.8 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 145,482
▼ 28% vs 2024
€ 72,700 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.
€ 98,097
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 5.4 million
▲ 131% vs 2024
€ 83,533 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 45 years.
€ 60,309
▼ 34% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 23,959
▼ 36% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 607,705 | - | - | - | |
| Gross margin | - | € -41,687 | € -86,035 | € -47,529 | ▲ € 38,506 |
| Profit after taxes | € 324,058 | € 5,651,564 | € -470,380 | € 130,319 | ▲ € 600,699 |
| Equity | € 15,642,505 | € 15,876,796 | € 15,334,776 | € 15,465,095 | ▲ 1% |
| Total debts | € 4,385,449 | € 1,181,073 | € 2,580,063 | € 5,623,365 | ▲ 118% |
| Cash | € 768,495 | € 944,105 | € 1,733,952 | € 1,251,754 | ▼ 28% |
| Land & buildings | - | € 186,412 | € 176,843 | € 167,274 | ▼ 5% |
| Retained profit | € 5,234,993 | € 10,786,556 | € 10,316,176 | € 10,446,495 | ▲ 1% |
| Dividend | € 120,000 | € 100,000 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Bank debt | € 4,132,810 | € 953,527 | € 2,350,255 | € 5,425,637 | ▲ 131% |
| Balance sheet total | € 20,027,954 | € 17,057,869 | € 17,914,840 | € 21,088,460 | ▲ 18% |
| Employees (FTE) | 3 | 0 | 2.8 | 2 | ▼ 0.8 |
Key figures of Lean Mean Business, 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 Lean Mean Business?
What happened at Lean Mean Business in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Corrected annual accounts filed for financial year 2025. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Petra Weyens became a director. NBB
- Vestal Communicatie BV became a director. NBB
- Koel Management BV became a director. NBB
- Sparta Consulting BV became a director. NBB
- Patrick Hermans became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Houthalen-Helchteren. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 324,058 profit in 2022 to € 130,319 profit in 2025.
Paid € 10,326 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 5.7 million profit.
Paid out € 220,000 in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
Behind Lean Mean Business are Petra Weyens, Vestal Communicatie BV, Koel Management BV, Sparta Consulting BV and Patrick Hermans. It owns 99.7% of Quattro Lease NV itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
since 2025
Director · represented by Peter Claes
since 2023
since 2023
Director · represented by Mark Lens
Also active at: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS, DE HOOGMOLEN
since 2023
Patrick Hermans
Director
Also active at: VOKA - Kamer van Koophandel Limburg, CONCENTRA COMPUTER CENTER, Rondom Media, TELE-VISIE-LIMBURG, CONCENTRA GRAFIC, Printing Partners Paal-Beringen, IGUANA, MobilityPlus +4 more
since 2023
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Centrum-Zuid 1527 box A
3530 Houthalen-Helchteren
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Details
- Company number
- 0895.858.346
- VAT number
- BE 0895.858.346
- Registered office
- Centrum-Zuid 1527 bus A, 3530 Houthalen-Helchteren
- Names & denominations
- Lean Mean Business · LMB
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 20 February 2008
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 22 Jun 2025
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