Manufacture of food products
No bankruptcy in the past five years.
Spread across the country
by region and province · 12 of 15 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat- Flanders
- Brussels
- Wallonia
- Abroad
The balance sheets of division 10 on the map, by municipality and down to the address
Largest employers
NACE 10620 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts- 1 COSUCRA - GROUPE WARCOINGPecq 368 FTEfinancial year 2026
- 2 Tereos Starch & Sweeteners BelgiumAalst 312 FTEfinancial year 2026
- 3 AGRISTO NAZARETHNazareth-De Pinte 207 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 4 BENEO-RemyLeuven 190 FTEfinancial year 2026
- 5 MASELISRoeselare 101 FTEfinancial year 2025
Companies
15 with this main activity- COSUCRA - GROUPE WARCOING Pecq · 368 FTE
- Tereos Starch & Sweeteners Belgium Aalst · 312 FTE
- AGRISTO NAZARETH Nazareth-De Pinte · 207 FTE
- BENEO-Remy Leuven · 190 FTE
- GENENCOR INTERNATIONAL Bruges · 122 FTE
- MASELIS Roeselare · 101 FTE
- CUSTOM FIBER Bornem · 43.6 FTE
- Duynie Ingredients Veurne · 18.1 FTE
- Duynie Ingredients BV Nijmegen
- Graux, Rudy sole trader · Dinant
- Lepez, Wesley sole trader · Brasschaat
- MILHO Beveren-Kruibeke-Zwijndrecht
- No Waste Republic Auderghem
- VOEDERS CUVELIER Poperinge
- Vuylsteker, Tine sole trader · Oostkamp
Joint committees
from the latest accounts of 8 companies- 118 Food industry 7
- 220 White-collar workers in the food industry 7
- 119 Food trade 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 products10610 | 120 | 10 | 0 | 1,102 |
Filed accounts of the division
NACE division 10 · financial year 2025 · 4,489 filed annual accounts| Per financial year | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | €16,864 |
| 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 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
1,384 employers| Size | Median | Middle half | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| fewer than 10 FTE | €47,300 | €38,400 to €57,100 | 562 |
| 10 to 49 FTE | €54,000 | €44,900 to €64,500 | 554 |
| 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 10Measured nationally: Of 108,562 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 6 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
5,284 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
Inflow and structure. This activity holds 0.2% of the registrations of Food products.
Staff and filing. The 5 largest employers hold 1,178 of the 1,196 FTE: 98.5%.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 07-11-2026 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 10620 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 1,276,547 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,272 registrations publish no activity.
For NACE 10620, 11 annual accounts of financial year 2025 were filed. That is too few for a median, which needs at least 30.