Manufacture of beverages

NACE 11

Current registrations1,382

Starters, 12 months81

Employment (FTE)10,921

Median age7.2 years

In NACE division 11, 5.9 companies per 100 started in the past twelve months, against 7.5 nationally; that is lower than that of 63% of the 86 other NACE divisions with this figure. Comparison: as of 14-10-2026 05:30.

Key figures for NACE division 11

financial year 2025 · median over 599 filed annual accounts

Median solvency

21.1%

lowest of all divisions

Median equity

€31,778

lower than 99% of the 78 divisions with this figure

Median net result

-€1,377

lowest of all divisions

Annual accounts in sample

599

Foreign control in NACE division 11

922 registered companies

Companies with a foreign parent

0.8%

7 of 922; Belgium 0.3%

Staff at those companies

9.8%

851 of 8,714 FTE; Belgium 15%

Main parent countries: Netherlands (3), Denmark (2) and France (2).Show on the map by municipality

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 11

144 employers

Median

€65,000

Belgium €61,400

Middle half

€54,500 to €76,900

half of the employers lie between

Place among sectors

43 of 78

sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first

By size class
Size	Median	Middle half	Employers
fewer than 10 FTE	€55,200	€46,000 to €63,500	60
10 to 49 FTE	€69,500	€62,100 to €78,100	59

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

Bankruptcies

past five years

Bankruptcies (5y)

Historical share

2.03%

Nationally, 1.61% of current registrations have a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. This sector's historical share is higher than that of 71% of the 87 other NACE divisions with this figure. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 11 is 0.6%, against 0.2% nationally, over 851 scored companies. Comparison: as of 14-10-2026 05:30.

Regional split

by region · 985 of 1,382 enterprises with a registered office on file

Flanders 536 · 54.4%

Wallonia 385 · 39.1%

Brussels 62 · 6.3%

Unknown 2 · 0.2%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

Date	Company
17-08-2026	BROUWERIJ EYLENBOSCH BE 0739.925.601
20-04-2026	BRASSERIE DU VAL DE SAMBRE BE 0568.871.247
10-04-2026	Klein Kloosterke BE 0768.238.515
25-02-2026	BRASSERIE CENTRE ARDENNE BE 0694.668.765
05-02-2026	Brouwerij Maenhout BE 0508.923.564
28-01-2026	CORVUS Brands International BE 0738.790.503
03-12-2025	Gembloux.beer BE 0721.467.093
08-07-2025	WIJNBOUW VILAIN XIIII BE 0672.780.716

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the registered office

West Flanders WVL 109

East Flanders OVL 137

Antwerp ANT 116

Flemish Brabant VLB 100

Limburg LIM 74

Brussels BRU 62

Hainaut HAI 97

Walloon Brabant WBR 48

Namur NAM 63

Liège LIE 116

Luxembourg LUX 61

fewer moremax 137

Where are this sector's balance sheets registered? By municipality, down to the address

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number

Flemish subsidies €15.6m awarded 151 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Procedure groene warmte, restwarmte en energie-efficiënte stadsverwarming
EU budget €1.4m attributed share 2 recipients · 2022 to 2023 · largest: Programme for Environment and Climate Action
EU research €80,000 eu contribution 1 recipient · 2016 · largest: Horizon 2020

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How these figures are counted

Current enterprise registrations are counted through their registered main activities; establishment units are excluded. Counted in the KBO's NACE 2025 nomenclature, the one in which code 11 exists.

Share of currently registered companies with a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. Registered main activities in the selected classification can overlap. This retrospective share is not a future bankruptcy probability.

The comparison with the country and with the other NACE divisions comes from a nightly overview of every division, each counted in the nomenclature in which it exists. A standing such as "higher than 80%" counts the other divisions that have the figure. The bankruptcy probability is the median of our nightly score over the division's companies that have one; the count is stated.

The middle company of the sector, based on all filed annual accounts.