Manufacture of electrical equipment

NACE 27401

Current registrations54

Starters, 12 months · division 2744

Employment (FTE) · division 2715,112

Median age · division 2714.7 years

In NACE division 27, 4.2 companies per 100 started in the past twelve months, against 7.5 nationally; that is lower than that of 78% of the 87 NACE divisions with this figure. Comparison: as of 27-10-2026 05:30.

Key figures for NACE division 27

financial year 2025 · median over 524 filed annual accounts

Median solvency

43.9%

lower than 51% of the 79 divisions with this figure

Median equity

€168,214

higher than 58% of the 79 divisions with this figure

Median net result

€14,257

lower than 56% of the 79 divisions with this figure

Annual accounts in sample

524

Foreign control in NACE division 27

729 registered companies

Companies with a foreign parent

2.6%

19 of 729; Belgium 0.3%

Staff at those companies

35%

4,211 of 12,031 FTE; Belgium 15%

Main parent countries: France (5), Switzerland (2) and Netherlands (2).Show on the map by municipality

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 27

194 employers

Median

€70,700

Belgium €61,400

Middle half

€58,700 to €89,300

half of the employers lie between

Place among sectors

23 of 78

sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first

By size class
Size	Median	Middle half	Employers
fewer than 10 FTE	€66,800	€52,700 to €86,600	86
10 to 49 FTE	€70,700	€59,600 to €84,400	76
50 to 249 FTE	€83,100	€72,600 to €93,200	21

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

Bankruptcies

past five years

Bankruptcies (5y)

Historical share

5.56%

Nationally, 1.61% of current registrations have a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. This sector's historical share is higher than that of 99% of the 88 NACE divisions with this figure. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 27 is 0.4%, against 0.2% nationally, over 721 scored companies. Comparison: as of 27-10-2026 05:30.

Regional split

by region · 27 of 54 enterprises with a registered office on file

Flanders 18 · 66.7%

Wallonia 7 · 25.9%

Brussels 2 · 7.4%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

Date	Company
16-12-2025	BE-LIGHTING CONCEPT BE 0844.325.612
28-10-2025	QUILLA BE 0505.948.139
19-04-2023	BELGIUM LED BE 0810.130.637

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the registered office

West Flanders WVL 4

East Flanders OVL 5

Antwerp ANT 3

Flemish Brabant VLB 4

Limburg LIM 2

Brussels BRU 2

Hainaut HAI 1

Walloon Brabant WBR 4

Namur NAM 2

Liège LIE 0

Luxembourg LUX 0

fewer moremax 5

Where are this sector's balance sheets registered? By municipality, down to the address

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number

Flemish subsidies €23.7m awarded 184 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Onderzoeksproject
Federal transfers 3.2m amount as published 5 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Subsidies voor de verbetering van telecommunicatieconnectiviteit
EU budget €32.1m attributed share 11 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Horizon Europe
EU research €51.4m eu contribution 20 recipients · 2008 to 2026 · largest: Horizon Europe

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How these figures are counted

Current enterprise registrations are counted through their registered main activities; establishment units are excluded. Counted in the KBO's NACE 2025 nomenclature, the one in which code 27401 exists.

Share of currently registered companies with a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. Registered main activities in the selected classification can overlap. This retrospective share is not a future bankruptcy probability.

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 27, not NACE 27401 on its own: there are too few filed annual accounts per five-digit code to compute them separately. The middle company of the sector, based on all filed annual accounts.