Manufacture of food products
Filed accounts of the division
NACE division 10 · financial year 2025 · 4,473 filed annual accountsStaff cost per FTE in NACE division 10
1,383 employers| Size | Median | Middle half | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| fewer than 10 FTE | €47,400 | €38,300 to €57,100 | 563 |
| 10 to 49 FTE | €54,000 | €44,800 to €64,400 | 552 |
| 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
Bankruptcies
Recent bankruptcies
| Date | Company |
|---|---|
| 09-09-2026 | ROBIJNGEEST
BE 0713.912.773 |
| 08-09-2026 | BDNZ
BE 0797.018.712 |
| 12-08-2026 | A.P.C. FOOD
BE 0807.264.880 |
| 15-07-2026 | MAESTRIA fine food
BE 0730.589.350 |
| 04-06-2026 | TRAITEUR NUZZO
BE 0550.684.836 |
| 07-05-2026 | PASTARTIGIANO
BE 0754.870.034 |
| 19-02-2026 | Betternow
BE 1019.824.247 |
| 16-02-2026 | BYTES & BITES GROUP
BE 1009.927.079 |
Running bankruptcies in the sector
NACE division 10Measured nationally: Of 108,424 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entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 28% after liquidation, 3% were withdrawn.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 3 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.
Spread across the country
by region and province · 279 of 443 enterprises with a registered office on file- Flanders
- Wallonia
- Brussels
This sector's balance sheets on the map, by municipality and down to the address
Largest employers
NACE division 10 · staff from the latest accounts- 1 PURATOSDilbeek 1,453 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 2 FERRERO ARDENNESArlon 1,228 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 FrieslandCampina BelgiumAalter 1,129 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 4 Barry Callebaut Belgium NVLebbeke 1,017 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 5 LUTOSALeuze-en-Hainaut 1,010 FTEfinancial year 2025
Foreign control in NACE division 10
5,283 registered companiesSubsidies in this sector
per register · legal entities with an enterprise number- Flemish subsidies €176.2m awarded
- Federal transfers 1.3m amount as published
- Wallonia-Brussels Federation €26.9m paid
- EU budget €3.5m attributed share
- EU research €3.6m eu contribution
Insights on Manufacture of food products
The number of starters per 100 companies in NACE division 10 is higher than that of 61% of the 87 NACE divisions with this figure.
This sector's historical share is higher than that of 90% of the 88 NACE divisions with this figure.
The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 10 is 0.9%, against 0.2% for Belgium as a whole. It is computed over 5,312 scored companies.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 03-11-2026 05:30.
Method and sources
Every company registered today counts under its main activities in the KBO. Establishment units do not count. The count follows the NACE 2025 classification, the version in which code 10850 exists.
The historical share is the share of current registrations for which a bankruptcy opening was published in the past five years. A company with more than one main activity counts in each of those sectors. The historical share is not a future bankruptcy probability.
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 "higher than 80%" compares with the other divisions that have the figure. A division's bankruptcy probability is the median over its companies with a score. Their number is given with the figure.
The filed-accounts figures cover the whole NACE division 10, not only NACE 10850. There are too few filed annual accounts per five-digit code to compute them separately. Each median is the value of the middle company, computed over the division's 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.