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Manufacture of textiles

NACE 139 · division 13 Textiles
Current registrations 1,347division 13: 2,360
Starters, 12 months 179division 13 · 7.6 per 100 · Belgium 7.5
Bankruptcies, 5 years 130.97% of the registrations · Belgium 1.61%
Employment (FTE) 14,634division 13 · financial year 2025
Median age 8.7 yearsdivision 13 · Belgium 10.7 years

Filed accounts of the division

NACE division 13 · financial year 2025 · 822 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
47.5%
Belgium 46.2%
Median net result
€17,104
Belgium €16,569
Median equity
€327,060
Belgium €98,595
Loss-making
30.5%
Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
10.4%
Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
8.2%
Belgium 16.0%
Median liquidity
1.74
Belgium 1.66

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 13

269 employers
Median
€54,500
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€46,500 to €65,300
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
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €51,200 €41,300 to €62,600 129
10 to 49 FTE €54,000 €47,400 to €62,300 84
50 to 249 FTE €64,000 €53,600 to €70,300 49

Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies, 12 months
10
division 13 · 4.2 per 1,000 registrations · Belgium 5.5

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
28-01-2026 RCS LAKWERKEN
BE 0661.935.027
31-12-2025 Shimirimana Craig
BE 0793.757.631
11-12-2025 PDK FINISHING
BE 0501.560.571
19-03-2025 Devos-Caby
BE 0451.862.919

Every bankruptcy in division 13, last 90 days

Spread across the country

by region and province · 650 of 1,347 enterprises with a registered office on file
  • Flanders 495 · 76.2%
  • Wallonia 109 · 16.8%
  • Brussels 43 · 6.6%
  • Unknown 3 · 0.5%
fewer moremax 208

Largest employers

NACE division 13 · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 BALTA INDUSTRIESWielsbeke 869 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 UtexbelRonse 638 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 ITC CoTielt 432 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 Associated Weavers EuropeRonse 368 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 LanoHarelbeke 360 FTEfinancial year 2025

Foreign control in NACE division 13

888 registered companies

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 €4.6m 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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Insights on Manufacture of textiles

The number of starters per 100 companies in NACE division 13 is higher than that of 56% of the 87 NACE divisions with this figure.

This sector's historical share is lower than that of 55% of the 88 NACE divisions with this figure.

The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 13 is 0.2%, against 0.2% for Belgium as a whole. It is computed over 921 scored companies.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 01-11-2026 05:30.

Method and sources

Every company registered today counts under its main activities in the KBO. Establishment units do not count. The count follows the NACE 2025 classification, the version in which code 139 exists.

The historical share is the share of current registrations for which a bankruptcy opening was published in the past five years. A company with more than one main activity counts in each of those sectors. The historical share is not a future bankruptcy probability.

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 "higher than 80%" compares with the other divisions that have the figure. A division's bankruptcy probability is the median over its companies with a score. Their number is given with the figure.

The filed-accounts figures cover the whole NACE division 13, not only NACE 139. There are too few filed annual accounts per five-digit code to compute them separately. Each median is the value of the middle company, computed over the division's 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.