Manufacture of textiles
Activities
NACE division 13 · 11 activities| Activity | Registrations | Starters, 12 months | Bankruptcies, 12 months | FTE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finishing of textiles13300 | 735 | 71 | 1 | 1,068 |
| Manufacture of textiles13929 | 595 | 45 | 2 | 1,704 |
| Manufacture of textiles13921 | 223 | 8 | 0 | 100 |
| Manufacture of textiles13100 | 206 | 7 | 1 | 2,373 |
| Manufacture of textiles13990 | 190 | 25 | 2 | 159 |
| Manufacture of textiles13960 | 137 | 6 | 1 | 747 |
| Manufacture of textiles13200 | 131 | 4 | 1 | 1,335 |
| Manufacture of textiles13930 | 115 | 4 | 2 | 3,472 |
| Manufacture of textiles13910 | 86 | 8 | 0 | 356 |
| Manufacture of textiles13940 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 168 |
| Manufacture of textiles13950 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 78 |
Filed accounts
NACE division 13 · financial year 2025 · 824 filed annual accounts| Per financial year | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median solvency | - | - | 43.6% | 46.2% | 46.0% | 46.9% | 46.1% | 48.4% |
| Median net result | - | - | €15,762 | €27,377 | €19,827 | €15,428 | €13,313 | €14,653 |
| Filed late | 31.0% | 36.2% | 32.5% | 33.7% | 35.2% | 30.6% | 31.8% | - |
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Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 13
269 employers| Size | Median | Middle half | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| fewer than 10 FTE | €51,200 | €41,300 to €62,600 | 129 |
| 10 to 49 FTE | €54,300 | €47,700 to €62,300 | 84 |
| 50 to 249 FTE | €64,000 | €53,600 to €70,300 | 49 |
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Bankruptcies
Bankruptcies per year in division 13
| Per year | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bankruptcies | 14 | 12 | 7 | 13 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 22 | 12 | 5 |
| Jobs lost | 190 | 179 | 58 | 53 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 29 | 17 | 416 | 57 | 17 |
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 |
|---|---|
| 19-10-2026 | MAISON KERMAN
BE 1021.086.633 |
| 21-09-2026 | Goldblok Garments
BE 0754.860.235 |
| 26-05-2026 | Matache, Vasile
BE 1007.252.849 · sole trader · Buggenhout |
| 19-05-2026 | PROGUARD MATTING
BE 0479.177.822 |
| 24-04-2026 | VERLIMAS
BE 0877.901.468 |
| 07-04-2026 | MEZ CRAFTS BELGIUM
BE 0400.296.531 |
| 06-03-2026 | BAS PRIX
BE 0788.178.646 |
| 28-01-2026 | RCS LAKWERKEN
BE 0661.935.027 |
Spread across the country
by region and province · 1,072 of 2,361 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 13 · staff from the latest accounts- 1 BALTA INDUSTRIESWielsbeke 678 FTEfinancial year 2026
- 2 UtexbelRonse 638 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 ITC CoTielt 432 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 4 Associated Weavers EuropeRonse 368 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 5 LanoHarelbeke 360 FTEfinancial year 2025
Joint committees
from the latest accounts of 420 companies- 120 Textile industry 185
- 214 White-collar workers in the textile industry 177
- 109 Clothing and garment industry 138
- 215 White-collar workers in the clothing and garment industry 99
- 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 53
- 201 Independent retail 18
- 209 White-collar workers in metal manufacturing 13
- 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 12
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- 111 Metal, mechanical and electrical engineering 11
- 124 Construction 11
- 130 Printing, graphic arts and newspapers 11
- 144 Agriculture 9
- 126 Furnishing and woodworking 6
- 120.01 Textile industry 4
- 142.02 Recovery of raw materials 4
- 116 Chemical industry 3
- 207 White-collar workers in the chemical industry 3
- 110 Textile care 2
- 120.03 Textile industry 2
- 149.04 Metal trade 2
Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.
Foreign control in NACE division 13
887 registered companiesSubsidies in this sector
per register · legal entities with an enterprise number- Flemish subsidies €15.7m awarded
- Federal transfers 140,800 amount as published
- EU budget €4.6m attributed share
- EU research €3.7m EU contribution
Insights on Textiles
Balance sheet and result. Return on equity of 8.2% is below Belgium's 15.9%. 10.3% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium. 30.5% of the annual accounts close with a loss, against 26.7% in Belgium.
Bankruptcies. In 12 months, 4.2 of 1,000 companies went bankrupt, against 6.2 in Belgium. That is more than in 56% of the 87 other NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.2% is below Belgium's 0.2%. By size, the median bankruptcy probability is 0.1% at under 10 FTE, 0.1% at 10 to 49 FTE and 0.1% at 50 to 249 FTE.
Inflow and structure. 54.6% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium. Flanders holds 77.3% of the seats, against 64.7% in Belgium. In 12 months, 7.6 of 100 companies started, against 8.9 in Belgium. That is more than in 57% of the 86 other NACE divisions.
Staff and filing. 31.8% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.4% in Belgium. The median staff cost per FTE of €54,523 is below Belgium's €61,417. The 5 largest employers hold 2,474 of the 11,559 FTE: 21.4%.
Direction. Median solvency rose from 43.6% in financial year 2020 to 48.4% in financial year 2025. In 2025, Statbel counted 12 bankruptcies and 57 jobs lost, against 12 bankruptcies in 2016.
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 13 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. 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.