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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 39 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
ESL GROUP from Elsene, company number BE0899299371, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 1,398 after tax. For that financial year ESL GROUP recorded a gross margin of € 275,078 and equity of € 6,486. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 30,297 to € 1,398. The company is profitable. The buffer is growing. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on February 13, 2026.
€ 6,486
▲ 27% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 1,398
▼ 95% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 27,406
▼ 17% 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 € -118,514.
People and assets in 2025
€ 238,788
▲ 19% 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.
€ 45,386
▲ 14% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 71,378
▲ 2% vs 2024
€ 23,732 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 3 years.
€ 48,060
▲ 98% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 47,949
▲ 8% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 100,814 | € 169,953 | € 259,714 | € 275,078 | ▲ 6% |
| Profit after taxes | € 15,758 | € 18,847 | € 30,297 | € 1,398 | ▼ 95% |
| Equity | € -44,056 | € -25,209 | € 5,088 | € 6,486 | ▲ 27% |
| Total debts | € 192,922 | € 254,250 | € 272,791 | € 363,063 | ▲ 33% |
| Cash | € 10,698 | € 20,035 | € 32,871 | € 27,406 | ▼ 17% |
| Retained profit | € -169,056 | € -150,209 | € -119,912 | € -118,514 | ▲ € 1,398 |
| Bank debt | € 35,219 | € 36,950 | € 70,172 | € 71,378 | ▲ 2% |
| Balance sheet total | € 148,866 | € 229,041 | € 277,879 | € 369,549 | ▲ 33% |
Key figures of ESL GROUP, fiscal years 2022 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2026) expected before 30 January 2027.
What happened to ESL GROUP?
What happened at ESL GROUP in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 1,398 (▼ 95% vs 2024). filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Didier CAIGNIE became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Elsene. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 15,758 profit in 2022 to € 1,398 profit in 2025.
Paid € 1,117 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 30,297 profit.
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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 ESL GROUP is Didier CAIGNIE. Didier CAIGNIE is also behind LASNE CONSULT.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
since 2022
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Vleurgatse Steenweg 54
1050 Elsene
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 1 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0899.299.371
- VAT number
- BE 0899.299.371
- Registered office
- Vleurgatse Steenweg 54, 1050 Elsene
- Names & denominations
- ESL GROUP
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 16 July 2008
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