Manufacture of textiles
Filed accounts
NACE 13960 · financial year 2025 · 80 filed annual accounts| Per financial year | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median solvency | 45.6% | 48.0% | 47.3% | 45.3% | 50.4% | 49.4% |
| Median net result | €46,144 | €55,021 | €45,344 | €46,686 | €50,012 | €47,125 |
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Bankruptcies
Recent bankruptcies
| Date | Company |
|---|---|
| 28-01-2026 | RCS LAKWERKEN
BE 0661.935.027 |
Spread across the country
by region and province · 101 of 137 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat- Flanders
- Wallonia
- Brussels
- Abroad
The balance sheets of division 13 on the map, by municipality and down to the address
Largest employers
NACE 13960 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts- 1 COPACO SCREENWEAVERSHarelbeke 162 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 2 Milliken TextilesGhent 112 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 HEIMBACH SPECIALITIES AGLa Calamine 86.3 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 4 BontexgeoZele 78.5 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 5 Plastibert & CieWielsbeke 56.7 FTEfinancial year 2025
Joint committees
from the latest accounts of 52 companies- 120 Textile industry 27
- 214 White-collar workers in the textile industry 27
- 109 Clothing and garment industry 17
- 215 White-collar workers in the clothing and garment industry 12
- 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 7
- 116 Chemical industry 2
- 124 Construction 2
- 207 White-collar workers in the chemical industry 2
Show the 4 others
- 120.01 Textile industry 1
- 126 Furnishing and woodworking 1
- 142.02 Recovery of raw materials 1
- 148 Fur and pelts 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 textiles13930 | 115 | 4 | 2 | 3,472 |
| Manufacture of textiles13910 | 86 | 8 | 0 | 356 |
| 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 |
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 |
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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
Balance sheet and result. The median net result of €47,125 is above Belgium's €16,490. 3.8% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium. Return on equity of 9.5% is below Belgium's 15.9%.
Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.2% is below Belgium's 0.2%.
Inflow and structure. Half of the companies are younger than 23.0 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. In 12 months, 4.4 of 100 companies started, against 8.9 in Belgium. That is fewer than in 75% of the 87 NACE divisions. 26.3% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium.
Staff and filing. 26.2% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.4% in Belgium. The 5 largest employers hold 496 of the 747 FTE: 66.4%.
Direction. Median solvency rose from 45.6% in financial year 2020 to 49.4% in financial year 2025.
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 13960 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.
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. The direction per financial year follows the companies still registered today. 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.