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Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products

Current registrations 145division 26: 994
Starters, 12 months 53.4 per 100 · Belgium 8.9
Bankruptcies, 12 months 16.9 per 1,000 registrations · Belgium 6.2
Employment (FTE) 55525 employers · latest accounts
Median age 14.4 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 89.0%129 of 145 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

Filed accounts

NACE 26200 · financial year 2025 · 81 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
44.0%
division 49.5% · Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€12,469
division €17,441 · Belgium €16,492
Median equity
€125,535
division €239,831 · Belgium €98,323
Loss-making
34.6%
division 34.9% · Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
14.8%
division 14.3% · Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
14.6%
division 10.0% · Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
1.67
division 1.92 · Belgium 1.66
Filed late
25.6%
financial year 2024, 86 filings · division 34.4% · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
7.7%
of 91 companies with annual accounts · division 4.7% · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year202020212022202320242025
Median solvency 43.3%48.2%50.9%51.3%41.7%44.0%
Median net result €5,679€15,151€13,481€8,309€9,868€12,469

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Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies, 5 years, still registered
3
2.07% of the registrations · Belgium 1.68%
Running bankruptcies
4
27.6 per 1,000 registrations

Recent bankruptcies

Date Company
08-12-2025 STOLP
BE 0694.678.663
25-08-2025 TIMELESS GUARDIANS
BE 0784.475.721
10-02-2025 Padde Solutions
BE 0797.125.709

Every bankruptcy in division 26, last 90 days

Spread across the country

by region and province · 109 of 145 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 71 · 65.1%
  • Wallonia 21 · 19.3%
  • Brussels 14 · 12.8%
  • Abroad 3 · 2.8%
fewer moremax 20

Largest employers

NACE 26200 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 SOCIETE LIEGEOISE DE MICRO - INFORMATIQUEAns 124 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 SUMMAGistel 108 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 MACQEvere 83.9 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 HYBRID Software DevelopmentMerelbeke-Melle 32.9 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 UcamcoGhent 32.4 FTEfinancial year 2025

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 30 companies
  • 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 22
  • 209 White-collar workers in metal manufacturing 6
  • 111 Metal, mechanical and electrical engineering 5
  • 201 Independent retail 1
  • 207 White-collar workers in the chemical industry 1

Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.

Division 26: Computer and electronic products

Related activities

8 other activities
Show all 8 activities
Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products26600 44 4 0 1,118
Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products26120 32 0 0 339

Bankruptcies per year in division 26

Per year201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Bankruptcies7310563334983
Jobs lost3220695113135194671538

2026 through July. 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 26

230 employers
Median
€86,000
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€68,200 to €105,600
half of the employers lie between
Place among sectors
7 of 78
sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first
By size class
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €80,500 €63,200 to €100,600 95
10 to 49 FTE €83,200 €68,600 to €100,500 96
50 to 249 FTE €96,900 €82,100 to €111,600 28

Foreign control in NACE division 26

737 registered companies

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €44.1m awarded 168 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Onderzoeksproject
  • Wallonia-Brussels Federation €3,000 paid 1 recipient · 2024 to 2025 · largest: Unnamed in the register
  • Federal transfers 4.0m amount as published 5 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Toelagen in kader van de oproep tot projecten betreffende de energietransitie.
  • EU budget €32.6m attributed share 31 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Horizon Europe
  • EU research €64.6m EU contribution 43 recipients · 2007 to 2027 · largest: Horizon 2020

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Insights on Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products

Balance sheet and result. 34.6% of the annual accounts close with a loss, against 26.7% in Belgium. The median net result of €12,469 is below Belgium's €16,492. 14.8% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium.

Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.2% is below Belgium's 0.2%.

Inflow and structure. Half of the companies are younger than 14.4 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. In 12 months, 3.4 of 100 companies started, against 8.9 in Belgium. That is fewer than in 83% of the 87 NACE divisions. 24.1% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium.

Staff and filing. 25.6% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.4% in Belgium. The 5 largest employers hold 381 of the 555 FTE: 68.7%.

Direction. The median net result rose from €5,679 in financial year 2020 to €12,469 in financial year 2025.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 10-11-2026 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 26200 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 1,276,421 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,557 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.