Manufacture of beverages
Activities
NACE division 11 · 7 activities| Activity | Registrations | Starters, 12 months | Bankruptcies, 12 months | FTE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manufacture of beer11050 | 720 | 28 | 7 | 6,509 |
| Manufacture of beverages11010 | 269 | 21 | 0 | 462 |
| Manufacture of beverages11020 | 186 | 15 | 0 | 104 |
| Manufacture of beverages11070 | 98 | 7 | 0 | 1,462 |
| Manufacture of beverages11040 | 59 | 5 | 0 | 2 |
| Manufacture of beverages11030 | 48 | 3 | 0 | 40 |
| Manufacture of beverages11060 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 139 |
Filed accounts
NACE division 11 · financial year 2025 · 671 filed annual accounts| Per financial year | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median solvency | - | - | 25.9% | 25.2% | 24.4% | 23.5% | 22.7% | 20.7% |
| Median net result | - | - | €709 | €2,818 | €1,008 | -€2,357 | -€1,722 | -€1,533 |
| Filed late | 42.4% | 50.7% | 47.1% | 48.1% | 47.6% | 44.8% | 43.1% | - |
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Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 11
147 employers| Size | Median | Middle half | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| fewer than 10 FTE | €54,400 | €45,000 to €63,200 | 62 |
| 10 to 49 FTE | €68,600 | €61,400 to €77,700 | 60 |
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Bankruptcies
Bankruptcies per year in division 11
| Per year | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bankruptcies | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 17 | 14 | 12 |
| Jobs lost | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 23 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 19 | 43 | 22 |
2026 through September. Every bankruptcy, also of companies that have since left the register. Source: Statbel (Directorate-General Statistics), NACE classification of 2008.
Recent bankruptcies
| 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 |
Spread across the country
by region and province · 984 of 1,379 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 division 11 · staff from the latest accounts- 1 INBEV BELGIUMAnderlecht 2,835 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 2 Alken-MaesMechelen 591 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 SPA MONOPOLE, Compagnie Fermière de SpaSpa 495 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 4 DUVEL MOORTGATPuurs-Sint-Amands 387 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 5 BROUWERIJ HAACHTBoortmeerbeek 347 FTEfinancial year 2025
Joint committees
from the latest accounts of 216 companies- 220 White-collar workers in the food industry 136
- 118 Food industry 91
- 302 Hotels and catering 44
- 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 28
- 119 Food trade 20
- 201 Independent retail 17
- 145 Horticulture 14
- 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 6
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- 144 Agriculture 3
- 116 Chemical industry 1
- 219 Technical inspection and conformity assessment 1
- 226 White-collar workers in international trade, transport and logistics 1
- 313 Pharmacies and pricing offices 1
Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.
7 of the 922 companies in NACE division 11 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: Netherlands (3), Denmark (2) and France (2). Together they employ 851 of the division's 8,717 FTE: 9.8%, against 14% for Belgium as a whole.
Subsidies in this sector
per register · legal entities with an enterprise number- Flemish subsidies €15.6m awarded
- EU budget €1.4m attributed share
- EU research €80,000 EU contribution
Insights on Beverages
Balance sheet and result. 29.9% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium. The median net result of -€1,272 is below Belgium's €16,539. 53.5% of the annual accounts close with a loss, against 26.7% in Belgium.
Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.6% is above Belgium's 0.2%. In 12 months, 5.1 of 1,000 companies went bankrupt, against 6.2 in Belgium. That is more than in 64% of the 87 other NACE divisions. By size, the median bankruptcy probability is 0.7% at under 10 FTE and 0.3% at 10 to 49 FTE.
Inflow and structure. Wallonia holds 38.9% of the seats, against 22.7% in Belgium. In 12 months, 5.7 of 100 companies started, against 8.8 in Belgium. That is fewer than in 62% of the 86 other NACE divisions. 28.6% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium.
Staff and filing. 43.1% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.4% in Belgium. The 5 largest employers hold 4,656 of the 8,717 FTE: 53.4%.
Direction. Median solvency fell from 25.9% in financial year 2020 to 20.7% in financial year 2025. The median net result fell from €709 in financial year 2020 to -€1,533 in financial year 2025. In 2024, Statbel counted 17 bankruptcies and 19 jobs lost, against 4 bankruptcies in 2017.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 05-11-2026 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 11 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 1,275,887 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,448 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. 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.