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Manufacture of beverages

NACE 11010 · division 11 Beverages
Current registrations 269division 11: 1,377
Starters, 12 months 217.8 per 100 · Belgium 8.9
Employment (FTE) 46223 employers · latest accounts
Median age 5.9 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 90.0%242 of 269 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

No bankruptcy in the past twelve months.

Filed accounts

NACE 11010 · financial year 2025 · 140 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
20.3%
division 22.0% · Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
-€2,020
division -€1,284 · Belgium €16,516
Median equity
€14,867
division €36,176 · Belgium €98,395
Loss-making
57.1%
division 53.7% · Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
35.7%
division 30.0% · Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
1.4%
division 2.6% · Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
1.23
division 1.24 · Belgium 1.66
Filed late
46.1%
financial year 2024, 128 filings · division 43.1% · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
2.7%
of 147 companies with annual accounts · division 5.0% · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year202020212022202320242025
Median solvency 27.7%25.9%23.8%26.9%22.8%20.3%
Median net result €5,681€5,010€2,052-€170-€1,465-€2,020

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Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies, 5 years, still registered
4
1.49% of the registrations · Belgium 1.68%
Running bankruptcies
5
18.6 per 1,000 registrations

Recent bankruptcies

Date Company
08-04-2025 BRASSERIE DE BRUNEHAUT
BE 0882.921.021
24-03-2025 Tatti, Jean-Claude
BE 0753.888.948 · sole trader · Colfontaine
31-07-2024 GUILTEA
BE 0736.799.132
17-07-2024 PETITS BONHEURS
BE 0660.924.346

Every bankruptcy in division 11, last 90 days

Spread across the country

by region and province · 184 of 269 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 101 · 54.9%
  • Wallonia 73 · 39.7%
  • Brussels 10 · 5.4%
fewer moremax 34

Largest employers

NACE 11010 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 KONINGSZonhoven 302 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 La Martiniquaise BeneluxGhent 55.7 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 RUBBENS GEBROEDERSWichelen 21.7 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 CraftailsSint-Niklaas 13.9 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 DE KLOKWichelen 11.7 FTEfinancial year 2025

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 34 companies
  • 220 White-collar workers in the food industry 22
  • 118 Food industry 15
  • 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 7
  • 302 Hotels and catering 5
  • 119 Food trade 4
  • 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 3
  • 201 Independent retail 2

Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.

Division 11: Beverages

Related activities

6 other activities
Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Manufacture of beer11050 718 28 7 6,489
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

Bankruptcies per year in division 11

Per year201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Bankruptcies144244237171412
Jobs lost14425232313194322

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 11

147 employers
Median
€65,200
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€54,300 to €76,900
half of the employers lie between
Place among sectors
42 of 78
sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first
By size class
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €54,400 €45,000 to €63,200 62
10 to 49 FTE €68,600 €61,400 to €77,700 60

7 of the 921 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 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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Insights on Manufacture of beverages

Balance sheet and result. 35.7% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium. 57.1% of the annual accounts close with a loss, against 26.7% in Belgium. The median net result of -€2,020 is below Belgium's €16,516.

Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.7% is above Belgium's 0.2%.

Inflow and structure. Wallonia holds 39.7% of the seats, against 22.7% in Belgium. Half of the companies are younger than 5.9 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. 31.6% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium.

Staff and filing. 46.1% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.4% in Belgium. The 5 largest employers hold 405 of the 462 FTE: 87.8%.

Direction. Median solvency fell from 27.7% in financial year 2020 to 20.3% in financial year 2025. The median net result fell from €5,681 in financial year 2020 to -€2,020 in financial year 2025.

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 11010 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.

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.