Manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers

NACE 29201

Current registrations247

Starters, 12 months · division 2940

Employment (FTE) · division 2922,823

Median age · division 2914.2 years

In NACE division 29, 5.4 companies per 100 started in the past twelve months, against 7.5 nationally; that is lower than that of 63% of the 87 NACE divisions. Comparison: as of 26-09-2026 05:30.

Key figures for NACE division 29

fiscal year 2025 · median over 244 filed annual accounts

Median solvency

42.0%

lower than 62% of 79 divisions

Median equity

€334,417

higher than 78% of 79 divisions

Median net result

€20,626

higher than 71% of 79 divisions

Annual accounts in sample

244

Bankruptcies

past five years

Bankruptcies (5y)

Historical share

1.62%

Nationally, 1.41% of current registrations have a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. This sector's historical share is higher than that of 65% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 29 is 0.4%, against 0.5% nationally, over 478 scored companies. Comparison: as of 26-09-2026 05:30.

Regional split

by region · 154 of 247 enterprises with a registered office on file

Flanders 108 · 70.1%

Wallonia 36 · 23.4%

Brussels 10 · 6.5%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

Date	Company
17-02-2026	Carrosserie Van Dijck BE 0431.534.687
11-12-2025	Sole trader BE 0567.745.255 · Hotton
17-09-2025	Garage Hallak BE 0801.107.657
23-07-2025	IDC-Cars BE 0433.568.620

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the establishment address

West Flanders WVL 33

East Flanders OVL 22

Antwerp ANT 21

Flemish Brabant VLB 15

Limburg LIM 17

Brussels BRU 10

Hainaut HAI 7

Walloon Brabant WBR 11

Namur NAM 7

Liège LIE 11

Luxembourg LUX 0

fewer moremax 33

Public money in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number

Flemish subsidies €31.1m awarded 120 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Vlaams opleidingsverlof (VOV)
Federal transfers 401,225 amount as published 2 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Steun aan het export in het raam van het OESO Verdrag aangaande export kredieten met de hulp van financiële instrumenten van commerciële of concessionele aard (cf. art. 2.14.6 en 2.14.15 van de wetsbepalingen)
EU budget €1.1m attributed share 3 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Horizon Europe
EU research €6.9m eu contribution 6 recipients · 2008 to 2025 · largest: Horizon 2020

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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 29201 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 29, not NACE 29201 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.