Manufacture of wearing apparel
No bankruptcy in the past five years.
Filed accounts of the division
NACE division 14 · financial year 2025 · 416 filed annual accountsStaff cost per FTE in NACE division 14
74 employers| Size | Median | Middle half | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| fewer than 10 FTE | €53,800 | €41,400 to €76,100 | 39 |
| 10 to 49 FTE | €57,200 | €48,600 to €68,300 | 23 |
Employers with the highest staff cost per FTE in this division All sectors by staff cost In the Analysis workbench
Spread across the country
by region and province · 16 of 129 enterprises with a registered office on file- Flanders
This sector's balance sheets on the map, by municipality and down to the address
Largest employers
NACE division 14 · staff from the latest accounts- 1 VAN DE VELDEWichelen 466 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 2 AAROVAOudenaarde 306 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 ANSELL HEALTHCARE EUROPEAnderlecht 210 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 4 SIOENArdooie 175 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 5 SIOEN FABRICSMouscron 119 FTEfinancial year 2025
3 of the 449 companies in NACE division 14 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: Australia (1), France (1) and Netherlands (1). Together they employ 236 of the division's 2,498 FTE: 9.5%, against 15% for Belgium as a whole.
Subsidies in this sector
per register · legal entities with an enterprise number- Flemish subsidies €34.1m awarded
- Federal transfers 342,193 amount as published
- Wallonia-Brussels Federation €96,354 paid
- EU budget €3.5m attributed share
- EU research €3.6m eu contribution
Insights on Manufacture of wearing apparel
The number of starters per 100 companies in NACE division 14 is higher than that of 62% of the 87 NACE divisions with this figure.
This sector's historical share is lower than that of 91% of the 88 NACE divisions with this figure.
The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 14 is 0.3%, against 0.2% for Belgium as a whole. It is computed over 503 scored companies.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 02-11-2026 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 141 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 14, not only NACE 141. 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.