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Manufacture of food products

NACE 10393 · division 10 Food products
Current registrations 31division 10: 9,624
Starters, 12 months 26.5 per 100 · Belgium 8.9
Employment (FTE) 2,02115 employers · latest accounts
Median age 38.5 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 90.3%28 of 31 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

No bankruptcy in the past five years.

Spread across the country

by region and province · 29 of 31 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 25 · 86.2%
  • Brussels 2 · 6.9%
  • Wallonia 2 · 6.9%
fewer moremax 19

The balance sheets of division 10 on the map, by municipality and down to the address

Largest employers

NACE 10393 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 DartaArdooie 480 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 DUJARDIN FOODSArdooie 413 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 HESBAYEFROSTGeer 342 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 PASFROSTZonnebeke 143 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 WestfroStaden 131 FTEfinancial year 2025

Companies

31 with this main activity

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 18 companies
  • 220 White-collar workers in the food industry 17
  • 118 Food industry 13
  • 140.03 Road transport and logistics for third parties 1
  • 226 White-collar workers in international trade, transport and logistics 1

Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.

Division 10: Food products

Related activities

5 other activities
Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Manufacture of food products10392 99 10 1 1,324
Manufacture of food products10320 95 5 0 448
Manufacture of food products10391 89 6 2 1,341
Manufacture of food products10311 75 4 0 2,556
Manufacture of food products10312 20 1 1 2,173

Filed accounts of the division

NACE division 10 · financial year 2025 · 4,497 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
33.3%
Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€17,975
Belgium €16,497
Median equity
€128,493
Belgium €98,338
Loss-making
28.5%
Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
16.2%
Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
14.4%
Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
1.21
Belgium 1.66
Filed late
38.2%
financial year 2024, 3,770 filings · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
6.8%
of 5,047 companies with annual accounts · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year20182019202020212022202320242025
Median solvency --32.4%32.5%31.4%32.7%34.3%33.8%
Median net result --€16,848€19,359€13,534€18,731€20,533€16,858
Filed late 38.0%45.2%43.1%43.7%41.1%39.8%38.2%-

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Bankruptcies per year in division 10

Per year201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Bankruptcies11610310610712658681021349711590
Jobs lost1,188578385341893153150364582328440456

2026 through September. Every bankruptcy, also of companies that have since left the register. Source: Statbel (Directorate-General Statistics), NACE classification of 2008.

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 10

1,385 employers
Median
€53,900
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€43,400 to €65,700
half of the employers lie between
Place among sectors
67 of 78
sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first
By size class
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €47,300 €38,400 to €57,100 562
10 to 49 FTE €54,200 €44,900 to €64,500 555
50 to 249 FTE €63,400 €56,500 to €75,700 211
250 FTE or more €74,100 €66,600 to €86,700 57

Employers with the highest staff cost per FTE in this division All sectors by staff cost In the Analysis workbench

Running bankruptcies in the sector

NACE division 10
Number
225
Half have run longer than
21 months
Belgium: 20 months
Longer than three years
32%
Belgium: 31%

Measured nationally: Of 108,621 bankruptcies of legal entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 28% after liquidation, 3% were withdrawn. After five years, 20% were still open. Half had ended after 26 months (a quarter after 15, three quarters after 51 months).

This counts companies with this main activity in the register on 9 November 2026. The outcome itself is not measured by sector. The activity of a company that leaves the register after its bankruptcy is too often not kept to compare closed cases fairly.

Outcome by court and division

Foreign control in NACE division 10

5,283 registered companies
Companies with a foreign parent
1.3%
69 of 5,283; Belgium 0.3%
Staff at those companies
22%
15,899 of 71,085 FTE; Belgium 14%

Main parent countries: Netherlands (21), France (9) and United States (8).Show on the map by municipality

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €106.5m awarded 1,270 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Subsidie in het kader van land- en tuinbouwbeleid
  • Wallonia-Brussels Federation €745,871 paid 1 recipient · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Subventions aux centres de jeunes : fonctionnement et intervention dans la rémunération des animateurs (décret du 20 juillet 2000)
  • EU budget €3.5m attributed share 13 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Horizon Europe
  • EU research €3.4m EU contribution 15 recipients · 2013 to 2026 · largest: Horizon Europe

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Insights on Manufacture of food products

Inflow and structure. Half of the companies are younger than 38.5 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. 6.5% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium. This activity holds 0.3% of the registrations of Food products.

Staff and filing. The 5 largest employers hold 1,510 of the 2,021 FTE: 74.7%.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 09-11-2026 05:30.

Method and sources

Every company registered today counts under its main activities in the KBO. Establishment units do not count. Staff counts once, under the employer's first main activity, from its latest accounts and only where it fits the staff costs. The count follows the NACE 2025 classification, the version in which code 10393 exists.

The bankruptcies over five years count only companies still registered today, because the activity of a company that left the register is not kept. So they are fewer than the bankruptcies of those years, and the figure is not a probability for the future. Over twelve months the count is nearly complete, because a bankrupt company stays registered while its bankruptcy runs. A company with more than one main activity counts in each of those sectors.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other NACE divisions rests on an overview of every division, counted again each night. Each division is counted in the version of the NACE classification in which it exists. A standing such as "more than in 80%" compares with the other divisions that have the figure. A division's bankruptcy probability is the median over its companies with a score. Belgium here counts the 1,276,461 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,442 registrations publish no activity.

For NACE 10393, 21 annual accounts of financial year 2025 were filed. That is too few for a median, which needs at least 30.

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