Manufacture of cocoa, chocolate and sugar confectionery
Filed accounts
NACE 10820 · financial year 2025 · 361 filed annual accounts| Per financial year | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median solvency | 35.0% | 35.4% | 34.8% | 36.1% | 35.0% | 34.9% |
| Median net result | €14,077 | €30,713 | €26,477 | €21,398 | €24,114 | €23,304 |
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Bankruptcies
Recent bankruptcies
| Date | Company |
|---|---|
| 29-09-2026 | ADAM LUX CANDIES
BE 1030.897.093 |
| 06-01-2026 | Tommy's plaCe
BE 0803.576.407 |
| 30-12-2025 | The Cacao Project
BE 0745.693.735 |
| 27-03-2025 | Confiserie Clément
BE 0801.872.274 |
| 18-12-2024 | CONFISERIE LOUIS
BE 0741.543.818 |
| 22-07-2024 | Quertinmont, Alain
BE 0781.893.640 · sole trader · Beaumont |
| 07-03-2023 | MIAM
BE 0863.656.029 |
| 03-11-2022 | Heyrman, Dominique
BE 0645.568.157 · sole trader · Beveren-Kruibeke-Zwijndrecht |
Spread across the country
by region and province · 469 of 721 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat- Flanders
- Wallonia
- Brussels
- Abroad
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Largest employers
NACE 10820 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts- 1 FERRERO ARDENNESArlon 1,228 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 2 Barry Callebaut Belgium NVLebbeke 1,017 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 Confiserie LeonidasNivelles 521 FTEfinancial year 2026
- 4 Barry Callebaut Manufacturing HalleHalle 468 FTEfinancial year 2024
- 5 NEUHAUSSint-Pieters-Leeuw 450 FTEfinancial year 2025
Joint committees
from the latest accounts of 187 companies- 118 Food industry 107
- 220 White-collar workers in the food industry 104
- 201 Independent retail 48
- 119 Food trade 35
- 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 9
- 302 Hotels and catering 6
- 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 2
- 102 Quarries 1
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- 109 Clothing and garment industry 1
- 142 Recovery of raw materials 1
- 215 White-collar workers in the clothing and garment industry 1
- 222 White-collar workers in paper and cardboard processing 1
Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.
Division 10: Food products
Related activities
6 other activities| Activity | Registrations | Starters, 12 months | Bankruptcies, 12 months | FTE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manufacture of food products10850 | 447 | 76 | 8 | 1,578 |
| Manufacture of food products10890 | 392 | 35 | 5 | 8,126 |
| Manufacture of food products10830 | 231 | 20 | 1 | 799 |
| Manufacture of food products10840 | 109 | 11 | 0 | 741 |
| Manufacture of food products10860 | 86 | 4 | 0 | 894 |
| Manufacture of food products10810 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 1,187 |
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 |
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Running bankruptcies in the sector
NACE division 10Measured nationally: Of 108,642 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 7 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 cocoa, chocolate and sugar confectionery
Balance sheet and result. The median net result of €23,304 is above Belgium's €16,520. Solvency of 34.9% is below Belgium's 46.1%. 14.7% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium.
Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.7% is above Belgium's 0.2%.
Inflow and structure. Half of the companies are younger than 10.3 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. 35.0% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium. In 12 months, 7.8 of 100 companies started, against 8.9 in Belgium. That is more than in 59% of the 87 NACE divisions.
Staff and filing. 29.4% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.4% in Belgium. The 5 largest employers hold 3,684 of the 7,833 FTE: 47.0%.
Direction. The median net result rose from €14,077 in financial year 2020 to €23,304 in financial year 2025.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 06-11-2026 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 10820 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 1,276,581 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 698,987 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.