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Laying of wooden floor and wall coverings

Current registrations 735division 43: 129,054
Starters, 12 months 385.2 per 100 · Belgium 8.9
Bankruptcies, 12 months 912.2 per 1,000 registrations · Belgium 6.2
Employment (FTE) 36056 employers · latest accounts
Median age 18.1 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 92.4%679 of 735 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

Filed accounts

NACE 43332 · financial year 2025 · 390 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
46.6%
division 45.2% · Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€8,644
division €13,172 · Belgium €16,520
Median equity
€107,557
division €82,140 · Belgium €98,421
Loss-making
28.2%
division 22.3% · Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
9.5%
division 7.8% · Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
8.9%
division 15.5% · Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
1.81
division 1.76 · Belgium 1.66
Filed late
38.1%
financial year 2024, 399 filings · division 42.6% · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
3.8%
of 417 companies with annual accounts · division 6.0% · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year202020212022202320242025
Median solvency 42.6%44.2%44.5%47.0%46.7%46.6%
Median net result €12,814€13,622€11,584€11,011€9,674€8,644

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Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies, 5 years, still registered
16
2.18% of the registrations · Belgium 1.68%
Running bankruptcies
22
29.9 per 1,000 registrations

Recent bankruptcies

Date Company
05-11-2026 EUROPARKET BENELUX
BE 0893.459.773
29-10-2026 Demeulenaere, Patrick
BE 0631.401.803 · sole trader · Antwerp
14-09-2026 Parket De Pauw
BE 0717.617.579
09-09-2026 LOFRA PROJECTS
BE 0825.385.173
09-09-2026 PARKET VANDEWINKEL
BE 0894.931.403
20-08-2026 Meeus, Jens
BE 0736.323.337 · sole trader · Brasschaat
01-07-2026 PARKET DEPOT LACHAPPELLE
BE 0437.059.531
13-05-2026 DMRe-nov Père et Fils
BE 0800.089.157

Every bankruptcy in division 43, last 90 days

Spread across the country

by region and province · 489 of 735 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 341 · 69.7%
  • Wallonia 104 · 21.3%
  • Brussels 39 · 8.0%
  • Abroad 5 · 1.0%
fewer moremax 110

Largest employers

NACE 43332 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 NORDEXArendonk 62.9 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 A.S.L.V. SCHILDERSBEDRIJFAs 22.5 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 Mélon Peinture et DécorationNivelles 14.9 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 RODAN INTERIEURStekene 13.9 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 LA PARQUETERIE DU BRABANTBrussels 13.0 FTEfinancial year 2025

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 125 companies
  • 124 Construction 104
  • 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 57
  • 126 Furnishing and woodworking 7
  • 201 Independent retail 4
  • 149.04 Metal trade 2
  • 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 1
  • 121 Cleaning 1
  • 145 Horticulture 1
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  • 149 Sectors related to metal, mechanical and electrical engineering 1
  • 302 Hotels and catering 1

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

Division 43: Specialised construction

Related activities

8 other activities
Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Joinery installation43320 19,818 1,339 153 15,344
Painting of buildings43341 7,805 691 71 2,911
Other building finishing work43350 7,270 975 85 3,238
Plastering work43310 3,971 380 43 1,086
Floor and wall tiling43331 3,901 328 58 926
Wallpapering and laying of floor and wall coverings in other materials43333 894 57 3 645
Show all 8 activities
Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Specialised construction activities43343 487 24 5 966
Specialised construction activities43342 152 13 1 593

Bankruptcies per year in division 43

Per year201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Bankruptcies1,2381,1181,1961,2851,4069579961,3741,4961,8201,8471,294
Jobs lost2,9772,5162,6162,7092,8072,3171,9342,5412,6723,3653,3792,180

2026 through September. 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 43

6,826 employers
Median
€61,500
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€52,500 to €69,800
half of the employers lie between
Place among sectors
56 of 78
sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first
By size class
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €59,800 €50,700 to €68,200 4,513
10 to 49 FTE €63,900 €55,800 to €71,400 2,080
50 to 249 FTE €70,100 €61,100 to €77,700 204
250 FTE or more €77,000 €70,500 to €82,400 29

Running bankruptcies in the sector

NACE division 43
Number
2,774
Half have run longer than
22 months
Belgium: 20 months
Longer than three years
31%
Belgium: 31%

Measured nationally: Of 108,562 bankruptcies of legal entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 28% after liquidation, 3% were withdrawn. After five years, 20% were still open. Half had ended after 26 months (a quarter after 15, three quarters after 51 months).

This counts companies with this main activity in the register on 6 November 2026. The outcome itself is not measured by sector. The activity of a company that leaves the register after its bankruptcy is too often not kept to compare closed cases fairly.

Outcome by court and division

52 of the 67,044 companies in NACE division 43 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: Netherlands (18), France (9) and Germany (8). Together they employ 3,749 of the division's 101,557 FTE: 3.7%, against 14% for Belgium as a whole.

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €112.7m awarded 11,263 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Vlaamse ondersteuningspremie (VOP) voor werkgevers (uitdovend stelsel)
  • Federal transfers 15.2m amount as published 17 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Samenwerkingsakkoord Beliris - Kapitaaloverdracht overheidsbedrijven.
  • Wallonia-Brussels Federation €933,621 paid 4 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Unnamed in the register
  • EU budget €97.9m attributed share 31 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Linked to buildings
  • EU research €10.3m EU contribution 18 recipients · 2010 to 2026 · largest: Horizon 2020

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Insights on Laying of wooden floor and wall coverings

Balance sheet and result. The median net result of €8,644 is below Belgium's €16,520. Return on equity of 8.9% is below Belgium's 15.9%. 9.5% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium.

Bankruptcies. In 12 months, 12.2 of 1,000 companies went bankrupt, against 6.2 in Belgium. That is more than in 93% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.4% is above Belgium's 0.2%.

Inflow and structure. Half of the companies are younger than 18.1 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. In 12 months, 5.2 of 100 companies started, against 8.9 in Belgium. That is fewer than in 67% of the 87 NACE divisions. 33.5% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium.

Staff and filing. The 5 largest employers hold 127 of the 360 FTE: 35.3%.

Direction. Median solvency rose from 42.6% in financial year 2020 to 46.6% in financial year 2025. The median net result fell from €12,814 in financial year 2020 to €8,644 in financial year 2025.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 06-11-2026 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 43332 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 1,276,581 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 698,987 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.