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Wholesale of fruit and vegetables, excluding potatoes

Current registrations 946division 46: 61,491
Starters, 12 months 363.8 per 100 · Belgium 8.9
Bankruptcies, 12 months 88.5 per 1,000 registrations · Belgium 6.2
Employment (FTE) 4,714240 employers · latest accounts
Median age 19.3 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 83.3%788 of 946 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

Filed accounts

NACE 46319 · financial year 2025 · 583 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
39.3%
division 42.2% · Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€26,607
division €17,217 · Belgium €16,520
Median equity
€363,597
division €207,401 · Belgium €98,421
Loss-making
24.2%
division 28.8% · Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
11.5%
division 13.4% · Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
9.0%
division 9.9% · Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
1.48
division 1.69 · Belgium 1.66
Filed late
37.5%
financial year 2024, 597 filings · division 39.2% · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
5.7%
of 649 companies with annual accounts · division 6.4% · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year202020212022202320242025
Median solvency 34.2%35.4%33.5%36.0%37.9%39.3%
Median net result €31,931€29,985€23,284€32,644€29,241€26,607

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Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies, 5 years, still registered
30
3.17% of the registrations · Belgium 1.68%
Running bankruptcies
32
33.8 per 1,000 registrations

Recent bankruptcies

Date Company
28-10-2026 RICHMOND EUROPE
BE 0781.821.186
22-10-2026 TropicalFresh
BE 1017.833.272
24-07-2026 GILSON FRUITS & LEGUMES
BE 0882.043.368
10-07-2026 ZIMZOUM
BE 0665.884.313
25-02-2026 GOLDEN APPLE
BE 0825.391.113
22-12-2025 ITALO DISTRIBUTION
BE 1001.015.947
21-11-2025 W.T. GROUP
BE 0775.328.027
10-11-2025 SAIZI
BE 0804.891.350

Every bankruptcy in division 46, last 90 days

Spread across the country

by region and province · 836 of 946 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 524 · 62.7%
  • Wallonia 129 · 15.4%
  • Brussels 101 · 12.1%
  • Abroad 82 · 9.8%
fewer moremax 160

Largest employers

NACE 46319 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 ARDO ARDOOIEArdooie 399 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 STEF LOGISTICS SAINTESTubize 187 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 BAKKER BELGIUMBoom 161 FTEfinancial year 2026
  4. 4 VAWIAntwerp 154 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 Coöperatieve Veiling RoeselareRoeselare 141 FTEfinancial year 2025

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 298 companies
  • 119 Food trade 184
  • 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 155
  • 201 Independent retail 61
  • 145 Horticulture 24
  • 118 Food industry 18
  • 220 White-collar workers in the food industry 17
  • 226 White-collar workers in international trade, transport and logistics 14
  • 140.03 Road transport and logistics for third parties 10
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  • 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 6
  • 140 Transport and logistics 5
  • 302 Hotels and catering 4
  • 144 Agriculture 1
  • 149.04 Metal trade 1
  • 202 White-collar workers in food retail 1
  • 202.01 Medium-sized food businesses 1

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

Division 46: Wholesale trade

Related activities

16 other activities
Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Wholesale of beverages, general range46349 1,537 96 14 3,537
Wholesale of other food products46389 1,385 84 17 4,892
Wholesale of wines and spirits46341 1,027 71 6 707
Wholesale of meat and meat products, excluding game and poultry46321 735 19 9 6,903
Non-specialised wholesale46392 679 29 5 5,933
Wholesale trade46360 450 21 7 2,930
Show all 16 activities
Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Wholesale trade46370 403 43 4 838
Wholesale trade46331 394 20 0 2,052
Wholesale trade46323 228 10 3 1,163
Wholesale trade46391 220 13 2 940
Wholesale trade46382 193 13 0 895
Wholesale trade46322 180 8 0 1,042
Wholesale trade46311 140 6 1 1,054
Wholesale trade46350 98 5 1 428
Wholesale trade46332 68 9 0 159
Wholesale trade46381 53 4 0 158

Bankruptcies per year in division 46

Per year201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Bankruptcies803710738687722486417583541625634425
Jobs lost1,6291,6551,3611,2161,2401,0548901,0299351,3831,271931

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 46

9,639 employers
Median
€64,900
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€51,300 to €84,400
half of the employers lie between
Place among sectors
44 of 78
sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first
By size class
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €60,500 €47,700 to €78,600 6,072
10 to 49 FTE €70,000 €57,700 to €89,100 2,910
50 to 249 FTE €84,000 €67,400 to €119,200 558
250 FTE or more €80,100 €64,800 to €98,300 99

Running bankruptcies in the sector

NACE division 46
Number
1,337
Half have run longer than
23 months
Belgium: 20 months
Longer than three years
34%
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

Foreign control in NACE division 46

45,472 registered companies

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €266.7m awarded 6,714 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Dienstencheques
  • Federal transfers 21.5m amount as published 14 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Ondersteuning aan de bijdrage van de organisaties van de civiele maatschappij en institutionele actoren in de realisatie van de doelen van de gemeenschappelijke strategische kaders (cf. art. 2.14.6 en 2.14.10 van de wetsbepalingen)
  • Wallonia-Brussels Federation €1.3m paid 17 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Conventions et contrats programmes indexés dans le domaine des centres culturels
  • EU budget €531.5m attributed share 96 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Information and communication technology
  • EU research €52.9m EU contribution 83 recipients · 2007 to 2027 · largest: Horizon 2020

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Insights on Wholesale of fruit and vegetables, excluding potatoes

Balance sheet and result. The median net result of €26,607 is above Belgium's €16,520. Return on equity of 9.0% is below Belgium's 15.9%. Solvency of 39.3% is below Belgium's 46.1%.

Bankruptcies. In 12 months, 8.5 of 1,000 companies went bankrupt, against 6.2 in Belgium. That is more than in 81% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.3% is above Belgium's 0.2%.

Inflow and structure. Half of the companies are younger than 19.3 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. 11.6% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium. In 12 months, 3.8 of 100 companies started, against 8.9 in Belgium. That is fewer than in 82% of the 87 NACE divisions.

Staff and filing. The 5 largest employers hold 1,043 of the 4,714 FTE: 22.1%.

Direction. Median solvency rose from 34.2% in financial year 2020 to 39.3% in financial year 2025. The median net result fell from €31,931 in financial year 2020 to €26,607 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 46319 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.