Postal and courier activities

NACE 53

Current registrations5,373

Starters, 12 months1,378

Employment (FTE)31,124

Median age3.6 years

In NACE division 53, 25.6 companies per 100 started in the past twelve months, against 7.5 nationally; that is higher than every other NACE division. Comparison: as of 02-10-2026 18:11.

Key figures for NACE division 53

fiscal year 2025 · median over 705 filed annual accounts

Median solvency

34.3%

lower than 86% of 78 divisions

Median equity

€39,085

lower than 96% of 78 divisions

Median net result

€5,705

lower than 87% of 78 divisions

Annual accounts in sample

705

Foreign control in NACE division 53

1,732 registered companies

Companies with a foreign parent

0.6%

10 of 1,732; Belgium 0.3%

Staff at those companies

9.1%

2,605 of 28,707 FTE; Belgium 15%

Mostly from Netherlands (6), France (3) and United States (1).Show on the map by municipality

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 53

93 employers

Median

€50,500

Belgium €61,100

Middle half

€42,400 to €60,700

half of the employers lie between

Place among sectors

70 of 78

by median staff cost per FTE

By size class
Size	Median	Middle half	Employers
fewer than 10 FTE	€47,900	€38,700 to €53,900	38
10 to 49 FTE	€51,700	€44,800 to €57,400	39

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)

302

Historical share

5.62%

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 87 other NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 53 is 3.0%, against 0.2% nationally, over 1,779 scored companies. Comparison: as of 02-10-2026 18:11.

Bankruptcies still running

NACE division 53

Running bankruptcies

167

Half have run longer than

19 months

Belgium: 21 months

Longer than three years

24%

Belgium: 31%

Measured nationally: Of 107,651 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entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 28% after liquidation, 3% were withdrawn; 20% were still open after five years.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 2 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 · 2,271 of 5,373 enterprises with a registered office on file

Flanders 1,376 · 60.6%

Brussels 579 · 25.5%

Wallonia 313 · 13.8%

Unknown 3 · 0.1%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

Date	Company
30-09-2026	Göçer, Ali BE 1023.257.552 · sole trader · Voeren
28-09-2026	Khalfalli, Jamel BE 0719.933.505 · sole trader · Charleroi
28-09-2026	Contexinvest BE 0756.489.142
28-09-2026	BRK SOLUTIONS BE 1003.539.333
25-09-2026	Gogeshvili, Zaza BE 0735.473.992 · sole trader · Bonheiden
23-09-2026	JACRIFAST BE 0763.941.712
22-09-2026	SP DISTRIBUTION BE 0550.555.865
22-09-2026	CONSTRUCT MANAGEMENT AND SERVICES BE 0879.009.941

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the establishment address

West Flanders WVL 165

East Flanders OVL 288

Antwerp ANT 390

Flemish Brabant VLB 356

Limburg LIM 177

Brussels BRU 579

Hainaut HAI 128

Walloon Brabant WBR 32

Namur NAM 26

Liège LIE 124

Luxembourg LUX 3

fewer moremax 579

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 €4.6m awarded 162 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Subsidies woon-werkverkeer
Federal transfers 773.6m amount as published 1 recipient · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Betaling aan bpost in uitvoering van het beheerscontract (cf. art. 2.33.2 van de algemene uitgavenbegroting)
EU budget €11.0m attributed share 2 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Other administrative expenditure
EU research €323,031 eu contribution 1 recipient · 2020 to 2024 · 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 53 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 middle company of the sector, based on all filed annual accounts.