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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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Negative equity NBB
More debt than assets in 2 of the last 2 fiscal years.
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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 30 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
HAUT from Oostende, company number BE1004789643, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 78,510 after tax. For that financial year HAUT recorded a gross margin of € 862,856 and equity of € -44,103. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -272,613 to € 78,510. Profitable, and profit is growing. More debts than assets. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on July 1, 2026.
€ -44,103
▲ € 78,510 vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 78,510
▲ still € 272,613 loss in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 78,687
▼ 40% 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 € -194,103.
People and assets in 2025
10.9
▲ 5.3 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 673,327
▲ 114% vs 2024
€ 61,800 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.
€ 2,662
▼ 22% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 447,699
▼ 9% vs 2024
€ 43,730 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 10 years.
€ 89,152
▲ 36% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 103,587
▲ 83% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 110,388 | € 862,856 | ▲ € 752,468 |
| Profit after taxes | € -272,613 | € 78,510 | ▲ € 351,124 |
| Equity | € -122,613 | € -44,103 | ▲ € 78,510 |
| Total debts | € 1,055,125 | € 921,813 | ▼ 13% |
| Cash | € 130,829 | € 78,687 | ▼ 40% |
| Retained profit | € -272,613 | € -194,103 | ▲ € 78,510 |
| Bank debt | € 489,744 | € 447,699 | ▼ 9% |
| Balance sheet total | € 932,512 | € 877,710 | ▼ 6% |
| Employees (FTE) | 5.6 | 10.9 | ▲ 5.3 |
Key figures of HAUT, fiscal years 2024 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 HAUT?
What happened at HAUT in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 78,510. Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Oostende. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
- Vercaemst BV became a director. NBB
- Vastgoedgroep Degroote BV became a director. NBB
In short
From € 272,613 loss in 2024 to € 78,510 profit in 2025.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 78,510 profit.
On average € 79,200 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of VASTGOEDGROEP DEGROOTE, BELCOAST HOLDING, VERCAEMST comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
HAUTBehind HAUT are Vercaemst BV and Vastgoedgroep Degroote BV. The shares are held by VASTGOEDGROEP DEGROOTE (100%), BELCOAST HOLDING (22.5%) and VERCAEMST (22.5%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Xavier Vercaemst
Also active at: HOTEL HELIOS PATRIMONIUM, ACCENT Hotels, ANDROMEDA INVEST, WESTHELLING, HOTEL HELIOS INVEST, Hotel Helios, UPSTAIRS OOSTENDE PATRIMONIUM, UPSTAIRS OOSTENDE UITBATING +5 more
since 2024
Director · represented by David Degroote
Also active at: DEGROOTE REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT, DEGROOTE HARBOUR DEVELOPMENT, Degroote Real Estate Construct, Investments Degroote, DEGROOTE HARBOUR CONSTRUCT, SKY PARKING REAL ESTATE, SKY BAR REAL ESTATE, SKY HOTEL REAL ESTATE +3 more
since 2024
Shareholders
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Van Iseghemlaan 105
8400 Oostende
Leopold III-laan 2 box 28
8400 Oostende
Active since 16 January 2024
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
- 1004.789.643
- VAT number
- BE 1004.789.643
- Registered office
- Van Iseghemlaan 105, 8400 Oostende
- Names & denominations
- HAUT
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 16 January 2024
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 22 Jan 2026
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