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Nationally 1.50% of enterprises go bankrupt within five years; this failure rate is higher than that of 74% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 25 is 0.7%, against 0.5% nationally, over 5,111 scored companies.
Key figures for NACE division 25
fiscal year 2025 · median over 3,538 filed annual accountsRegional split
by region · 492 of 998 enterprises with a registered office on fileRecent bankruptcies in this sector
8| Date | Company |
|---|---|
| 26-05-2026 | Boone-Metaal
BE 1021.195.214 |
| 29-04-2026 | NOKKELE
BE 0760.349.049 |
| 01-04-2026 | MAENE L.
BE 0416.062.692 |
| 18-02-2026 | PN SYSTEMS
BE 0667.514.309 |
| 02-01-2026 | Lenaerts Group
BE 0740.486.023 |
| 31-10-2025 | Pirard, Lionel
BE 0844.191.394 |
| 26-09-2025 | Robin Lemaire
BE 0607.948.389 |
| 23-06-2025 | Labat, Laurent
BE 0840.095.323 |
Geographic distribution
by province · based on the establishment addressHow these figures are counted
Enterprises are counted by their primary NACE; establishment units are not counted. Counted in the KBO's NACE 2025 nomenclature, the one in which code 25401 exists.
Bankruptcies and the failure rate are attributed by each company's current primary NACE, not the NACE at the time of bankruptcy (which the gazette does not record).
The comparison with the country and with the other NACE divisions comes from a nightly overview of every division, each counted in the nomenclature in which it exists. A standing such as "higher than 80%" counts the other divisions that have the figure. The bankruptcy probability is the median of our nightly score over the division's companies that have one; the count is stated.
The key figures cover the whole NACE division 25, not NACE 25401 on its own: there are too few filed annual accounts per five-digit code to compute them separately. Medians over NBB annual accounts, all schema types combined.