Largest employers in Ranst
This ranking lists the companies in Ranst with the most staff, according to their latest annual accounts.
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Municipalities with the most companies with a balance sheet
- Antwerp 26,565
- Ghent 13,485
- Brussels 13,107
- Ixelles 9,095
- Uccle 6,871
- Liège 6,203
- Hasselt 5,895
- Bruges 5,552
- Leuven 5,028
- Anderlecht 4,704
- Kortrijk 4,647
- Namur 4,416
Rankings by province
Ranst
municipality in the province of Antwerp, 19,776 inhabitantsLargest employers
- 1PAUWELS286 FTE
- 2WITZENMANN BENELUX158 FTE
- 3Van Cauteren127 FTE
- 1PAUWELS€93m
- 2POMUNI FROZEN NV€44m
- 33P€39m
- 1PAUWELS€55m
- 23P€39m
- 3POMUNI FROZEN NV€20m
- 1MOLS+17.6% a year
- 2POMUNI FROZEN NV+13.9% a year
- 3DERMATHEEK+11.2% a year
- 1COGEPA1935
- 2Transport Lauwers1943
- 3PAUWELS1949
- 1Palo Alto Networks Belgium€401,500
- 2VMware Belgium€387,100
- 3Nutanix Belgium€371,100
- 1Water transport€105,600
- 2Chemicals€96,100
- 3Computer and electronic products€94,100
Largest employers in Ranst, over the years
today's top 10, annual accounts filed 2020 to 2025Positions in 2020
- 1 PAUWELS 264 FTE
- 2 WITZENMANN BENELUX 171 FTE
- 3 Van Cauteren 124 FTE
- 4 Leef 70.0 FTE
- 5 POMUNI TRADE NV 52.4 FTE
- 6 POMUNI FROZEN NV 51.6 FTE
- 7 BLEIJENBERG 49.8 FTE
- 8 Ivo Van Den Bosch 42.1 FTE
- 9 Ordal 26.1 FTE
- 10 MOLS 19.3 FTE
Positions in 2021
- 1 PAUWELS 271 FTE
- 2 WITZENMANN BENELUX 162 FTE
- 3 Van Cauteren 123 FTE
- 4 Leef 67.2 FTE
- 5 POMUNI TRADE NV 56.2 FTE
- 6 POMUNI FROZEN NV 52.8 FTE
- 7 BLEIJENBERG 52.3 FTE
- 8 Ivo Van Den Bosch 40.6 FTE
- 9 Ordal 31.1 FTE
- 10 MOLS 18.4 FTE
Positions in 2022
- 1 PAUWELS 266 FTE
- 2 WITZENMANN BENELUX 154 FTE
- 3 Van Cauteren 124 FTE
- 4 Leef 62.6 FTE
- 5 POMUNI TRADE NV 59.6 FTE
- 6 POMUNI FROZEN NV 55.5 FTE
- 7 BLEIJENBERG 53.2 FTE
- 8 Ivo Van Den Bosch 35.7 FTE
- 9 Ordal 32.0 FTE
- 10 MOLS 22.0 FTE
Positions in 2023
- 1 PAUWELS 284 FTE
- 2 WITZENMANN BENELUX 156 FTE
- 3 Van Cauteren 134 FTE
- 4 POMUNI FROZEN NV 66.8 FTE
- 5 BLEIJENBERG 60.6 FTE
- 6 Leef 60.1 FTE
- 7 POMUNI TRADE NV 57.9 FTE
- 8 Ordal 36.5 FTE
- 9 Ivo Van Den Bosch 34.2 FTE
- 10 MOLS 30.5 FTE
Positions in 2024
- 1 PAUWELS 286 FTE
- 2 WITZENMANN BENELUX 164 FTE
- 3 Van Cauteren 132 FTE
- 4 POMUNI FROZEN NV 76.1 FTE
- 5 Leef 61.2 FTE
- 6 BLEIJENBERG 60.3 FTE
- 7 POMUNI TRADE NV 59.7 FTE
- 8 Ordal 41.2 FTE
- 9 Ivo Van Den Bosch 36.3 FTE
- 10 MOLS 29.4 FTE
Positions in 2025
- 1 PAUWELS 286 FTE
- 2 WITZENMANN BENELUX 158 FTE
- 3 Van Cauteren 127 FTE
- 4 POMUNI FROZEN NV 82.1 FTE
- 5 POMUNI TRADE NV 63.7 FTE
- 6 Leef 62.1 FTE
- 7 BLEIJENBERG 58.6 FTE
- 8 Ordal 40.5 FTE
- 9 MOLS 35.8 FTE
- 10 Ivo Van Den Bosch 33.9 FTE
The full list
RanstTop 25
Largest employers in Ranst
Staff (FTE) · 144 companies with a plausible staff figure
Average staff in full-time equivalents from the social balance of the latest annual accounts. Method and sources
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Method and sources
Average staff in full-time equivalents from the social balance of the latest annual accounts. Only figures where staff costs fall between 10,000 and 400,000 euro per FTE; an implausible figure is left out.
- Source
- Annual accounts at the National Bank, KBO
- Financial year
- The latest per company. For 97.9% of the companies that is 2025.
- Companies
- 144 companies with a plausible staff figure
- Not included
- Sole traders, companies in bankruptcy, liquidation or another abnormal situation in the register, and companies without accounts for 2024 or later.
- Over the years
- The lines show the figure of every filed standalone account of today's top 10, up to 9 years back. A company that stopped in those years is shown when it once filed at least today's tenth figure. The year is that of the financial year end.
- Updated
- 09-11-2026