Manufacture of wearing apparel
No bankruptcy in the past five years.
Activities
NACE 1422 · 1 activity| Activity | Registrations | Starters, 12 months | Bankruptcies, 12 months | FTE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manufacture of wearing apparel14220 | 90 | 5 | 0 | 504 |
Spread across the country
by region and province · 35 of 90 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat- Flanders
- Brussels
- Wallonia
- Abroad
The balance sheets of division 14 on the map, by municipality and down to the address
Largest employers
NACE 1422 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts- 1 VAN DE VELDEWichelen 466 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 2 TEXIM - BELGIUMOudsbergen 11.9 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 FERNAND DE SPIEGELAERERoeselare 11.8 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 4 MAILLE FRANCEAnderlecht 8.8 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 5 STANDARD TEXTILESint-Martens-Latem 5.3 FTEfinancial year 2025
Joint committees
from the latest accounts of 11 companies- 109 Clothing and garment industry 7
- 215 White-collar workers in the clothing and garment industry 7
- 120 Textile industry 2
- 214 White-collar workers in the textile industry 2
- 144 Agriculture 1
- 201 Independent retail 1
Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.
Division 14: Clothing
Filed accounts of the division
NACE division 14 · financial year 2025 · 418 filed annual accounts| Per financial year | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median solvency | - | - | 34.2% | 36.7% | 34.2% | 37.5% | 35.4% | 35.5% |
| Median net result | - | - | €6,211 | €6,933 | €4,349 | €5,003 | €3,064 | €4,552 |
| 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 year | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bankruptcies | 18 | 7 | 12 | 4 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 6 |
| Jobs lost | 78 | 11 | 15 | 21 | 28 | 23 | 11 | 6 | 18 | 27 | 24 | 7 |
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| 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
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
- 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
Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.2% is below Belgium's 0.2%.
Inflow and structure. 61.1% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium. In 12 months, 5.6 of 100 companies started, against 8.9 in Belgium. That is fewer than in 64% of the 87 NACE divisions. Brussels holds 14.7% of the seats, against 12.5% in Belgium.
Staff and filing. The 5 largest employers hold 503 of the 504 FTE: 99.8%.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 07-11-2026 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 1422 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 1,276,547 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,272 registrations publish no activity.
For NACE 1422, 28 annual accounts of financial year 2025 were filed. That is too few for a median, which needs at least 30.