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Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products

NACE 26520 · division 26 Computer and electronic products
Current registrations 60division 26: 995
Starters, 12 months 35.0 per 100 · Belgium 8.9
Employment (FTE) 705 employers · latest accounts
Median age 8.3 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 91.7%55 of 60 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

No bankruptcy in the past five years.

Spread across the country

by region and province · 30 of 60 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Wallonia 13 · 43.3%
  • Flanders 9 · 30.0%
  • Brussels 8 · 26.7%
fewer moremax 8

The balance sheets of division 26 on the map, by municipality and down to the address

Largest employers

NACE 26520 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 Clock-O-MaticHolsbeek 39.1 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 ALFANO S.A.Nivelles 11.0 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 RESSENCEAntwerp 11.0 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 CAMPATellin 7.8 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 BIJOUTERIE TOUSSAINT & JADOTCiney 1.6 FTEfinancial year 2025

Companies

60 with this main activity

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 10 companies
  • 209 White-collar workers in metal manufacturing 4
  • 111 Metal, mechanical and electrical engineering 3
  • 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 3
  • 149 Sectors related to metal, mechanical and electrical engineering 2
  • 201 Independent retail 2
  • 126 Furnishing and woodworking 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

1 other activity
Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products26510 204 12 1 2,230

Filed accounts of the division

NACE division 26 · financial year 2025 · 657 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
49.5%
Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€17,441
Belgium €16,490
Median equity
€239,831
Belgium €98,313
Loss-making
34.9%
Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
14.3%
Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
10.0%
Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
1.92
Belgium 1.66
Filed late
34.4%
financial year 2024, 581 filings · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
4.7%
of 704 companies with annual accounts · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year20182019202020212022202320242025
Median solvency --45.0%50.1%44.1%46.6%46.8%48.6%
Median net result --€15,016€20,730€16,237€16,210€14,951€15,237
Filed late 37.0%46.7%39.4%39.3%40.0%36.8%34.4%-

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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

Employers with the highest staff cost per FTE in this division All sectors by staff cost In the Analysis workbench

Foreign control in NACE division 26

738 registered companies
Companies with a foreign parent
5.7%
42 of 738; Belgium 0.3%
Staff at those companies
40%
5,059 of 12,621 FTE; Belgium 14%

Main parent countries: United States (10), France (7) and Netherlands (6).Show on the map by municipality

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

Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.1% is below Belgium's 0.2%.

Inflow and structure. Brussels holds 26.7% of the seats, against 12.5% in Belgium. 50.0% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium. This activity holds 6.0% of the registrations of Computer and electronic products.

Staff and filing. The 5 largest employers hold 70 of the 70 FTE: 100.0%.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 11-11-2026 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 26520 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 1,276,472 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,781 registrations publish no activity.

For NACE 26520, 28 annual accounts of financial year 2025 were filed. That is too few for a median, which needs at least 30.

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