Manufacture of beer

NACE 11050

Current registrations719

Starters, 12 months · division 1182

Employment (FTE) · division 1110,931

Median age · division 117.2 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 62% of the 87 NACE divisions with this figure. Comparison: as of 22-10-2026 05:30.

Key figures for NACE division 11

financial year 2025 · median over 612 filed annual accounts

Median solvency

20.9%

Median equity

€31,839

Median net result

-€1,546

Annual accounts in sample

612

Foreign control in NACE division 11

921 registered companies

Companies with a foreign parent

0.8%

7 of 921; Belgium 0.3%

Staff at those companies

9.7%

851 of 8,733 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

148 employers

Median

€65,000

Belgium €61,400

Middle half

€54,300 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	€54,300	€45,000 to €63,900	63
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

2.78%

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 86% of the 88 NACE divisions with this figure. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 11 is 0.6%, against 0.2% nationally, over 855 scored companies. Comparison: as of 22-10-2026 05:30.

Regional split

by region · 541 of 719 enterprises with a registered office on file

Flanders 294 · 54.3%

Wallonia 214 · 39.6%

Brussels 32 · 5.9%

Unknown 1 · 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
16-04-2025	Brasserie Ceres Belgique BE 0507.610.995

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the registered office

West Flanders WVL 66

East Flanders OVL 71

Antwerp ANT 66

Flemish Brabant VLB 60

Limburg LIM 31

Brussels BRU 32

Hainaut HAI 62

Walloon Brabant WBR 21

Namur NAM 30

Liège LIE 60

Luxembourg LUX 41

fewer moremax 71

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 11050 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 key figures cover the whole NACE division 11, not NACE 11050 on its own: there are too few filed annual accounts per five-digit code to compute them separately. The middle company of the sector, based on all filed annual accounts.