Manufacture of jewellery

NACE 32123

Current registrations1,539

Starters, 12 months · division 32694

Employment (FTE) · division 329,589

Median age · division 327.0 years

In NACE division 32, 12.7 companies per 100 started in the past twelve months, against 7.5 nationally; that is higher than that of 91% of the 87 NACE divisions. Comparison: as of 05-10-2026 05:30.

Key figures for NACE division 32

fiscal year 2025 · median over 1,183 filed annual accounts

Median solvency

43.4%

lower than 56% of 79 divisions

Median equity

€94,879

lower than 61% of 79 divisions

Median net result

€11,356

lower than 66% of 79 divisions

Annual accounts in sample

1,183

Foreign control in NACE division 32

1,700 registered companies

Companies with a foreign parent

1.0%

17 of 1,700; Belgium 0.3%

Staff at those companies

15%

1,072 of 7,063 FTE; Belgium 14%

Mostly from Netherlands (8), Germany (2) and France (2).Show on the map by municipality

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 32

261 employers

Median

€61,400

Belgium €61,300

Middle half

€51,000 to €77,900

half of the employers lie between

Place among sectors

55 of 78

by median staff cost per FTE

By size class
Size	Median	Middle half	Employers
fewer than 10 FTE	€56,200	€46,600 to €71,600	146
10 to 49 FTE	€64,600	€57,100 to €84,900	91

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

0.58%

Nationally, 1.61% of current registrations have a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. This sector's historical share is lower than that of 75% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 32 is 0.3%, against 0.2% nationally, over 1,728 scored companies. Comparison: as of 05-10-2026 05:30.

Regional split

by region · 338 of 1,539 enterprises with a registered office on file

Flanders 238 · 70.4%

Wallonia 52 · 15.4%

Brussels 46 · 13.6%

Unknown 2 · 0.6%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

Date	Company
18-09-2026	MONTE CARLO DIAM BE 0536.469.584
02-09-2026	SISO BE 0884.468.269
15-05-2026	J.M.C. Van der Veken BE 0415.058.050
17-03-2026	P.C. BOSCHMANS BE 0404.935.804
06-02-2026	Joaillerie Leysen frères BE 0403.394.195
16-12-2025	Joaillerie Leysen frères BE 0403.394.195
02-05-2025	Kinsch-Boeckmans, Fabienne BE 0871.927.258 · sole trader · Waimes
13-05-2024	Cepeda Mamani, Pablo BE 0763.503.628 · sole trader · Antwerpen

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the establishment address

West Flanders WVL 40

East Flanders OVL 28

Antwerp ANT 130

Flemish Brabant VLB 24

Limburg LIM 16

Brussels BRU 46

Hainaut HAI 8

Walloon Brabant WBR 17

Namur NAM 6

Liège LIE 20

Luxembourg LUX 1

fewer moremax 130

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 €29.0m awarded 236 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Onderzoeksproject
Federal transfers 625,300 amount as published 1 recipient · 2023 to 2024 · 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)
Wallonia-Brussels Federation €18,400 paid 4 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Dotation à WBI dans le cadre de la promotion internationale de_x000D_ Bruxelles
EU budget €6.9m attributed share 12 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Horizon Europe
EU research €14.7m eu contribution 13 recipients · 2009 to 2027 · 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 32123 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 32, not NACE 32123 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.