Manufacture of food products
Filed accounts
NACE 10510 · financial year 2025 · 123 filed annual accounts| Per financial year | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median solvency | 37.5% | 35.6% | 33.4% | 32.0% | 33.7% | 32.7% |
| Median net result | €54,167 | €22,701 | €11,353 | €22,002 | €29,818 | €31,795 |
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Bankruptcies
Recent bankruptcies
| Date | Company |
|---|---|
| 30-10-2026 | NATÜRLICH HUNGER
BE 0671.656.902 |
| 25-02-2026 | CASEI BELGAE
BE 0797.146.493 |
| 21-08-2025 | CHOCO YOCO
BE 0502.422.089 |
Spread across the country
by region and province · 182 of 266 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat- Wallonia
- Flanders
- Brussels
- Abroad
The balance sheets of division 10 on the map, by municipality and down to the address
Largest employers
NACE 10510 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts- 1 FrieslandCampina BelgiumAalter 1,129 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 2 Milcobel DairyBeveren-Kruibeke-Zwijndrecht 557 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 DANONE ROTSELAAR SPRotselaar 465 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 4 InexSint-Lievens-Houtem 430 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 5 MONDELEZ NAMUR PRODUCTIONNamur 406 FTEfinancial year 2025
Joint committees
from the latest accounts of 65 companies- 220 White-collar workers in the food industry 47
- 118 Food industry 43
- 119 Food trade 11
- 201 Independent retail 9
- 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 6
- 144 Agriculture 4
- 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 1
- 121 Cleaning 1
Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.
Division 10: Food products
Related activities
1 other activity| Activity | Registrations | Starters, 12 months | Bankruptcies, 12 months | FTE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manufacture of food products10520 | 601 | 35 | 5 | 1,226 |
Bankruptcies per year in division 10
| Per year | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bankruptcies | 116 | 103 | 106 | 107 | 126 | 58 | 68 | 102 | 134 | 97 | 115 | 90 |
| Jobs lost | 1,188 | 578 | 385 | 341 | 893 | 153 | 150 | 364 | 582 | 328 | 440 | 456 |
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| Size | Median | Middle half | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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Running bankruptcies in the sector
NACE division 10Measured 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.
Foreign control in NACE division 10
5,283 registered companiesSubsidies in this sector
per register · legal entities with an enterprise number- Flemish subsidies €106.5m awarded
- Wallonia-Brussels Federation €745,871 paid
- EU budget €3.5m attributed share
- EU research €3.4m EU contribution
Insights on Manufacture of food products
Balance sheet and result. The median net result of €31,795 is above Belgium's €16,500. 18.9% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium. Return on equity of 9.2% is below Belgium's 15.9%.
Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.6% is above Belgium's 0.2%.
Inflow and structure. Wallonia holds 56.5% of the seats, against 22.7% in Belgium. In 12 months, 4.9 of 100 companies started, against 8.9 in Belgium. That is fewer than in 69% of the 87 NACE divisions. Half of the companies are younger than 10.8 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium.
Staff and filing. 27.9% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.4% in Belgium. The 5 largest employers hold 2,988 of the 4,552 FTE: 65.6%.
Direction. Median solvency fell from 37.5% in financial year 2020 to 32.7% in financial year 2025. The median net result fell from €54,167 in financial year 2020 to €31,795 in financial year 2025.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 08-11-2026 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 10510 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 1,276,474 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,509 registrations publish no activity.
Each median is the value of the middle company, computed over the annual accounts of financial year 2025, and is shown only from 30 accounts. A share (loss-making, negative equity) counts that year's accounts with that trait. Accounts are late when they are filed after the statutory deadline. The direction per financial year follows the companies still registered today. Missing or 90 days late counts the companies with accounts missing today, or whose latest were filed more than 90 days after the deadline. The dossier follows the same rule.