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NACE 4942
Current registrations983
Starters, 12 months · division 49
2,751
Employment (FTE) · division 49
121,366
Median age · division 49
6.8 years

In NACE division 49, 11.9 companies per 100 started in the past twelve months, against 7.5 nationally; that is higher than that of 87% of the 87 NACE divisions with this figure. Comparison: as of 13-10-2026 05:31.

Key figures for NACE division 49

financial year 2025 · median over 9,005 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
38.8%
lower than 76% of the 79 divisions with this figure
Median equity
€65,070
lower than 82% of the 79 divisions with this figure
Median net result
€9,386
lower than 71% of the 79 divisions with this figure
Annual accounts in sample
9,005

Foreign control in NACE division 49

15,644 registered companies

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 49

2,215 employers
Median
€61,600
Belgium €61,300
Middle half
€51,400 to €71,200
half of the employers lie between
Place among sectors
55 of 78
sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first
By size class
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €62,000 €49,500 to €73,700 921
10 to 49 FTE €61,000 €51,400 to €69,700 1,011
50 to 249 FTE €63,100 €57,200 to €71,100 256
250 FTE or more €71,600 €62,200 to €79,200 27

Bankruptcies

past five years
Bankruptcies (5y)
59
Historical share
6.00%

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 49 is 1.7%, against 0.2% nationally, over 13,389 scored companies. Comparison: as of 13-10-2026 05:31.

Bankruptcies still running

NACE division 49
Running bankruptcies
909
Half have run longer than
19 months
Belgium: 21 months
Longer than three years
30%
Belgium: 31%

Measured nationally: Of 107,938 bankruptcies of legal entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 28% after liquidation, 3% were withdrawn; 20% were still open after five years. Half had ended after 26 months (a quarter after 15, three quarters after 51 months).

Counts companies with this main activity in the register on 14 October 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

Regional split

by region · 608 of 983 enterprises with a registered office on file
Flanders 354 · 58.2%
Brussels 142 · 23.4%
Wallonia 107 · 17.6%
Unknown 5 · 0.8%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

8
Date Company
08-10-2026 Chamzatov, Adlan
BE 0781.750.417 · sole trader · Hasselt
02-10-2026 Déménagement Social Europe
BE 1025.658.204
28-09-2026 Ducuroir, Ludwig
BE 0515.840.951 · sole trader · Overijse
25-09-2026 SERVICE GROUP
BE 0748.381.625
16-09-2026 MM LOGISTIC
BE 0452.477.482
10-07-2026 AD Moving
BE 0723.530.126
19-06-2026 STENAT-MOVES
BE 0899.641.841
12-06-2026 REGALATO
BE 0866.098.548

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the registered office
fewer moremax 142

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €274.7m awarded 3,153 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Vlaams Gemeentefonds
  • Federal transfers 6.49bn amount as published 9 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Deelname van de Staat in het kapitaal van de NMBS met oog op de financiering van de investeringen ten gunste van NMBS
  • Wallonia-Brussels Federation €70,602 paid 2 recipients · 2024 to 2025 · largest: Unnamed in the register
  • EU budget €95.5m attributed share 15 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Connecting Europe Facility, Transport
  • EU research €8.7m eu contribution 13 recipients · 2008 to 2026 · largest: Seventh Framework Programme

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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 4942 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 49, not NACE 4942 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.