Manufacture of textiles

NACE 132

Current registrations132

Starters, 12 months · division 13195

Employment (FTE) · division 1315,154

Median age · division 138.6 years

In NACE division 13, 8.2 companies per 100 started in the past twelve months, against 7.5 nationally; that is higher than that of 57% of the 87 NACE divisions. Comparison: as of 29-09-2026 05:30.

Key figures for NACE division 13

fiscal year 2025 · median over 536 filed annual accounts

Median solvency

48.8%

higher than 75% of 79 divisions

Median equity

€342,459

higher than 80% of 79 divisions

Median net result

€14,823

lower than 51% of 79 divisions

Annual accounts in sample

536

Foreign control in NACE division 13

899 registered companies

Companies with a foreign parent

1.8%

16 of 899; Belgium 0.3%

Staff at those companies

16%

1,843 of 11,869 FTE; Belgium 15%

Mostly from Germany (4), France (4) and Switzerland (2).Show on the map by municipality

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 13

139 employers of at least 10 FTE

Median

€56,000

Belgium €65,100

Middle half

€49,300 to €65,500

half of the employers lie between

Place among sectors

64 of 73

by median staff cost per FTE

By size class
Size	Median	Middle half	Employers
10 to 49 FTE	€53,700	€47,200 to €61,700	83
50 to 249 FTE	€63,700	€53,500 to €70,300	48

Best-paying employers in this division All sectors by staff cost In the Analysis workbench

Bankruptcies

past five years

Bankruptcies (5y)

Historical share

0.76%

Nationally, 1.61% of current registrations have a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. This sector's historical share is lower than that of 67% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 13 is 0.2%, against 0.5% nationally, over 932 scored companies. Comparison: as of 29-09-2026 05:30.

Regional split

by region · 99 of 132 enterprises with a registered office on file

Flanders 91 · 91.9%

Wallonia 6 · 6.1%

Brussels 2 · 2.0%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

Date	Company
24-04-2026	VERLIMAS BE 0877.901.468

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the establishment address

West Flanders WVL 74

East Flanders OVL 15

Antwerp ANT 0

Flemish Brabant VLB 2

Limburg LIM 0

Brussels BRU 2

Hainaut HAI 3

Walloon Brabant WBR 1

Namur NAM 0

Liège LIE 2

Luxembourg LUX 0

fewer moremax 74

Where does this sector's wealth sit? By municipality, down to the street

Public money in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number

Flemish subsidies €15.7m awarded 222 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Ontwikkelingsproject
Federal transfers 140,800 amount as published 1 recipient · 2025 · largest: Inkomensoverdracht R&D naar bedrijven
EU budget €4.5m attributed share 5 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Horizon Europe
EU research €3.7m eu contribution 9 recipients · 2009 to 2026 · 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 132 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 13, not NACE 132 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.