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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 48 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
COOL OPTIEK from Brugge, company number BE0899105272, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 23,219 after tax. For that financial year COOL OPTIEK recorded a gross margin of € 160,325 and equity of € 178,917. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 39,827 to € 23,219. The company is profitable. The company holds a healthy buffer. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on August 24, 2026.
€ 178,917
▼ 30% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 23,219
▼ 42% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 27,612
▼ 31% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 100,000 paid out
More than the year’s profit went to the shareholders; reserves fell.
People and assets in 2025
0.9
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 51,797
▲ 10% 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.
€ 10,604
▼ 5% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 153,334
▼ 12% vs 2024
€ 20,000 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 8 years.
€ 75,806
▼ 23% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 23,285
▲ 18% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 100,075 | € 43,269 | € 165,344 | € 160,325 | ▼ 3% |
| Profit after taxes | € 44,504 | € -13,930 | € 39,827 | € 23,219 | ▼ 42% |
| Equity | € 229,800 | € 215,871 | € 255,698 | € 178,917 | ▼ 30% |
| Total debts | € 54,477 | € 315,383 | € 302,699 | € 352,130 | ▲ 16% |
| Cash | € 177,458 | € 77,342 | € 39,948 | € 27,612 | ▼ 31% |
| Retained profit | € 211,200 | € 197,271 | € 237,098 | € 160,317 | ▼ 32% |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 0 | € 0 | € 100,000 | |
| Bank debt | € 219 | € 193,333 | € 173,333 | € 153,334 | ▼ 12% |
| Balance sheet total | € 284,278 | € 531,254 | € 558,397 | € 531,048 | ▼ 5% |
| Employees (FTE) | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.9 |
Key figures of COOL OPTIEK, 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 COOL OPTIEK?
What happened at COOL OPTIEK in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 23,219 (▼ 42% vs 2024). filed late Source: NBB ↗
- FH Invest BV became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Gent. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 44,504 profit in 2022 to € 23,219 profit in 2025.
Paid € 21,653 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 44,504 profit.
Paid out € 100,000 in dividends to the owners in total.
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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 F.H. OPTICS comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
COOL OPTIEKBehind COOL OPTIEK are Marie-Anne Cool and FH Invest BV. The shares are held by F.H. OPTICS (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Marie-Anne Cool
Manager
since 2023
Shareholders
100%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Canadastraat 21
8200 Brugge
Botestraat 24
9032 Gent
Active since 7 July 2008
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 3 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0899.105.272
- VAT number
- BE 0899.105.272
- Registered office
- Canadastraat 21, 8200 Brugge
- Names & denominations
- COOL OPTIEK
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 7 July 2008
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