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Manufacture of wearing apparel

NACE 14130 · division 14 Clothing
Current registrations 903division 14: 2,021
Bankruptcies, 5 years, still registered 50.55% of the registrations · Belgium 1.68%

Bankruptcies

Recent bankruptcies

Date Company
22-06-2026 BURO QUATTRO
BE 0421.830.432
18-02-2026 Wardenburg
BE 0785.664.069
05-11-2025 TONICKX
BE 0452.402.456
09-05-2025 Talia
BE 0758.485.857
19-02-2025 NEWWORK BELGIUM
BE 0450.781.566

Every bankruptcy in division 14, last 90 days

Spread across the country

by region and province · 258 of 903 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 165 · 64.0%
  • Wallonia 48 · 18.6%
  • Brussels 43 · 16.7%
  • Abroad 2 · 0.8%
fewer moremax 47

Division 14: Clothing

Filed accounts of the division

NACE division 14 · financial year 2025 · 417 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
37.4%
Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€4,996
Belgium €16,520
Median equity
€70,151
Belgium €98,421
Loss-making
36.6%
Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
21.6%
Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
7.8%
Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
1.57
Belgium 1.66
Filed late
35.4%
financial year 2024, 345 filings · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
5.9%
of 454 companies with annual accounts · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year20182019202020212022202320242025
Median solvency --34.2%36.7%34.2%37.5%35.4%35.6%
Median net result --€6,211€6,933€4,349€5,003€3,064€4,591
Filed late 39.5%46.0%47.1%45.8%40.3%39.8%35.4%-

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Bankruptcies per year in division 14

Per year201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Bankruptcies187124117769996
Jobs lost7811152128231161827247

2026 through June. 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 14

74 employers
Median
€57,600
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€46,300 to €75,300
half of the employers lie between
Place among sectors
62 of 78
sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first
By size class
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €53,800 €41,400 to €76,100 39
10 to 49 FTE €57,200 €48,600 to €68,300 23

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 14% for Belgium as a whole.

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €34.1m awarded 87 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Erkenning en subsidiëring als maatwerkafdeling
  • Federal transfers 342,193 amount as published 3 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Inkomensoverdracht R&D naar bedrijven
  • Wallonia-Brussels Federation €96,354 paid 6 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Unnamed in the register
  • EU budget €3.5m attributed share 3 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Horizon Europe
  • EU research €3.6m EU contribution 3 recipients · 2016 to 2025 · largest: Horizon Europe

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Insights on Manufacture of wearing apparel

Inflow and structure. Brussels holds 16.8% of the seats, against 12.5% in Belgium. This activity holds 44.7% of the registrations of Clothing.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 06-11-2026 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 2008 classification, the version in which code 14130 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 1,276,581 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 698,987 registrations publish no activity.