Manufacture of textiles

NACE 133

Current registrations735

Starters, 12 months · division 13197

Employment (FTE) · division 1314,544

Median age · division 138.7 years

In NACE division 13, 8.4 companies per 100 started in the past twelve months, against 7.5 nationally; that is higher than that of 60% of the 87 NACE divisions with this figure. Comparison: as of 15-10-2026 05:30.

Key figures for NACE division 13

financial year 2025 · median over 630 filed annual accounts

Median solvency

48.8%

higher than 77% of the 79 divisions with this figure

Median equity

€319,752

higher than 80% of the 79 divisions with this figure

Median net result

€16,238

higher than 51% of the 79 divisions with this figure

Annual accounts in sample

630

Foreign control in NACE division 13

889 registered companies

Companies with a foreign parent

1.8%

16 of 889; Belgium 0.3%

Staff at those companies

16%

1,843 of 11,767 FTE; Belgium 15%

Main parent countries: Germany (4), France (4) and Switzerland (2).Show on the map by municipality

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 13

271 employers

Median

€54,500

Belgium €61,400

Middle half

€46,200 to €65,500

half of the employers lie between

Place among sectors

66 of 78

sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first

By size class
Size	Median	Middle half	Employers
fewer than 10 FTE	€51,200	€41,500 to €62,800	130
10 to 49 FTE	€53,700	€47,200 to €62,200	85
50 to 249 FTE	€64,000	€53,600 to €70,300	49

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

0.82%

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 61% of the 88 NACE divisions with this figure. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 13 is 0.2%, against 0.2% nationally, over 920 scored companies. Comparison: as of 15-10-2026 05:30.

Regional split

by region · 226 of 735 enterprises with a registered office on file

Flanders 150 · 66.4%

Wallonia 59 · 26.1%

Brussels 17 · 7.5%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

Date	Company
06-03-2026	BAS PRIX BE 0788.178.646
04-07-2025	Malitex BE 0763.674.961
24-06-2024	Sublifusion BE 1001.236.968
05-02-2024	SOLUTIONS ID BE 0554.919.578
22-09-2022	Ververijen Escotex BE 0401.071.442
30-11-2021	Inter Home Market BE 0505.719.396

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the registered office

West Flanders WVL 43

East Flanders OVL 40

Antwerp ANT 29

Flemish Brabant VLB 18

Limburg LIM 20

Brussels BRU 17

Hainaut HAI 19

Walloon Brabant WBR 11

Namur NAM 5

Liège LIE 18

Luxembourg LUX 6

fewer moremax 43

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 €15.7m 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 133 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 133 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.