Manufacture of textiles
No bankruptcy in the past five years.
Spread across the country
by region and province · 28 of 86 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat- Flanders
- Wallonia
- Brussels
The balance sheets of division 13 on the map, by municipality and down to the address
Largest employers
NACE 13910 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts- 1 BTTComines-Warneton 198 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 2 LAVAWielsbeke 45.4 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 COUSYZottegem 32.9 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 4 BONNETERIE DE GEEST BREIGOEDERENFABRIEKWevelgem 25.5 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 5 JAVANNEMouscron 22.3 FTEfinancial year 2025
Joint committees
from the latest accounts of 13 companies- 120 Textile industry 10
- 214 White-collar workers in the textile industry 10
- 109 Clothing and garment industry 2
- 215 White-collar workers in the clothing and garment industry 2
- 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 1
- 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 1
Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.
Division 13: Textiles
Related activities
7 other activities| Activity | Registrations | Starters, 12 months | Bankruptcies, 12 months | FTE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manufacture of textiles13929 | 595 | 45 | 2 | 1,704 |
| Manufacture of textiles13921 | 223 | 8 | 0 | 100 |
| Manufacture of textiles13990 | 190 | 25 | 2 | 159 |
| Manufacture of textiles13960 | 137 | 6 | 1 | 747 |
| Manufacture of textiles13930 | 115 | 4 | 2 | 3,472 |
| Manufacture of textiles13940 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 168 |
Show all 7 activities
| Activity | Registrations | Starters, 12 months | Bankruptcies, 12 months | FTE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manufacture of textiles13950 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 78 |
Filed accounts of the division
NACE division 13 · financial year 2025 · 825 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% | 48.5% |
| Median net result | - | - | €15,762 | €27,377 | €19,827 | €15,428 | €13,313 | €14,502 |
| Filed late | 31.0% | 36.2% | 32.5% | 33.7% | 35.2% | 30.6% | 31.8% | - |
Hold your customer's or competitor's figures against them in the Sector benchmark
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.
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 |
Employers with the highest staff cost per FTE in this division All sectors by staff cost In the Analysis workbench
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 Manufacture of textiles
Inflow and structure. 67.4% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium. This activity holds 3.6% of the registrations of Textiles.
Staff and filing. The 5 largest employers hold 324 of the 356 FTE: 90.9%.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 11-11-2026 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 13910 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 1,276,472 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,781 registrations publish no activity.
For NACE 13910, 20 annual accounts of financial year 2025 were filed. That is too few for a median, which needs at least 30.