Manufacture of wearing apparel
No bankruptcy in the past five years.
Filed accounts
NACE 14230 · financial year 2025 · 33 filed annual accounts| Per financial year | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median solvency | 41.4% | 42.7% | 45.3% | 46.1% | 42.0% |
| Median net result | €28,607 | €44,155 | €35,806 | €38,482 | €18,100 |
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Spread across the country
by region and province · 37 of 51 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat- Flanders
- Wallonia
- Brussels
- Abroad
The balance sheets of division 14 on the map, by municipality and down to the address
Largest employers
NACE 14230 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts- 1 SIOEN FABRICSMouscron 119 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 2 AlsicoRonse 51.4 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 Confectiebedrijven ElancoTielt 30.3 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 4 BelconfectMouscron 29.0 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 5 SarcoTemse 26.6 FTEfinancial year 2025
Companies
51 with this main activity- SIOEN Ardooie · 175 FTE
- SIOEN FABRICS Mouscron · 119 FTE
- Etablissementen Van Moer Hulshout · 67.2 FTE
- Alsico Ronse · 51.4 FTE
- Kunstateliers Slabbinck Bruges · 44.9 FTE
- Confectiebedrijven Elanco Tielt · 30.3 FTE
- Belconfect Mouscron · 29.0 FTE
- Sarco Temse · 26.6 FTE
- Van Heurck Lier · 21.9 FTE
- DE RUYCK PAUL Oudenaarde · 20.3 FTE
- DUTRA Wavre · 19.4 FTE
- BEDRIJFSKLEDING VEYS Antwerp · 10.4 FTE
- MIDEX SAFETY Roeselare · 9.4 FTE
- anne-lore by Van Herck Geel · 4.5 FTE
- LINDERS Brussels · 2.7 FTE
- ROBBERECHTS Fleurus · 2.0 FTE
- ONE Keerbergen · 1.0 FTE
- Baise, Julie sole trader · Courcelles
- Darot, Aurélie sole trader · Beaumont
- De Latte, Lisa sole trader · Herzele
- DentAnn Bonheiden
- De Parade, Tania sole trader · Bredene
- Depraet's Ghent
- Dewever, Ignace sole trader · Dentergem
- DKL-PROJECTS Bruges
- EFDISET Beveren-Kruibeke-Zwijndrecht
- Etablissements PHILIPPE Manage
- EVERDA Antwerp
- Firma Pattyn Roeselare
- Hosseini, Saeed sole trader · Antwerp
- ISACO Anderlecht
- JEFF BRUSSELS Harelbeke
- Lecompte, Annemie sole trader · Ostend
- LENA IMMOBILIARI Zaventem
- Lo Mauro, Samantha sole trader · Mons
- MICHIELSENS-STERCKX Lier
- N.V.-SERVICES Antwerp
- PRODETEX Malmedy
- ProRisk Oudsbergen
- ROMARIN STUDIO Uccle
- Schram, Florence sole trader · Rixensart
- Schubert, Laurence sole trader · Kraainem
- Sioen Nederland bv Mijdrecht
- Slegers, Chantal sole trader · Kasterlee
- Spranghers, Monique sole trader · Oosterzele
- TOTAL SAFETY SUPPLY BELGIUM Brasschaat
- Traversée Uccle
- Vercamert, Timpe sole trader · Kortrijk
- VETIPRO BY ELEVEN Lasne
- VISOR-LUX Tongeren-Borgloon
- Wuidar, Bénédicte sole trader · Habay
Joint committees
from the latest accounts of 19 companies- 109 Clothing and garment industry 15
- 215 White-collar workers in the clothing and garment industry 14
- 201 Independent retail 2
- 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 1
- 120 Textile industry 1
- 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 1
- 214 White-collar workers in the textile industry 1
- 220 White-collar workers in the food industry 1
Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.
Division 14: Clothing
Related activities
5 other activities| Activity | Registrations | Starters, 12 months | Bankruptcies, 12 months | FTE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manufacture of outerwear14210 | 1,068 | 79 | 3 | 1,146 |
| Manufacture of wearing apparel14299 | 537 | 47 | 1 | 474 |
| Manufacture of wearing apparel14240 | 99 | 3 | 1 | 33 |
| Manufacture of wearing apparel14220 | 90 | 5 | 0 | 504 |
| Manufacture of wearing apparel14291 | 68 | 6 | 0 | 48 |
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
Balance sheet and result. Solvency and the result are close to Belgium's.
Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.2% is below Belgium's 0.2%.
Inflow and structure. Half of the companies are younger than 19.7 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. 27.5% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium. This activity holds 2.5% of the registrations of Clothing.
Staff and filing. 25.8% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.4% in Belgium. The 5 largest employers hold 257 of the 290 FTE: 88.5%.
Direction. The median net result fell from €28,607 in financial year 2021 to €18,100 in financial year 2025.
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 14230 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.
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.