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Postal and courier activities

NACE 532
Current registrations4,928
Starters, 12 months · division 53
1,376
Employment (FTE) · division 53
29,774
Median age · division 53
3.3 years

In NACE division 53, 25.9 companies per 100 started in the past twelve months, against 7.5 nationally; that is higher than that of 99% of the 87 NACE divisions with this figure. Comparison: as of 16-10-2026 05:30.

Key figures for NACE division 53

financial year 2025 · median over 816 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
33.7%
lower than 87% of the 79 divisions with this figure
Median equity
€37,025
lower than 95% of the 79 divisions with this figure
Median net result
€5,862
lower than 87% of the 79 divisions with this figure
Annual accounts in sample
816

Foreign control in NACE division 53

1,707 registered companies

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 53

97 employers
Median
€51,000
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€42,800 to €60,700
half of the employers lie between
Place among sectors
70 of 78
sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first
By size class
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €46,700 €40,200 to €57,000 40
10 to 49 FTE €52,100 €44,200 to €56,500 41

Bankruptcies

past five years
Bankruptcies (5y)
231
Historical share
4.69%

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 98% of the 88 NACE divisions with this figure. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 53 is 2.7%, against 0.2% nationally, over 1,753 scored companies. Comparison: as of 16-10-2026 05:30.

Bankruptcies still running

NACE division 53
Running bankruptcies
163
Half have run longer than
18 months
Belgium: 20 months
Longer than three years
23%
Belgium: 31%

Measured nationally: Of 108,104 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entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 28% after liquidation, 3% were withdrawn; 20% were still open after five years.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 17 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 · 2,036 of 4,928 enterprises with a registered office on file
Flanders 1,262 · 62.0%
Brussels 492 · 24.2%
Wallonia 279 · 13.7%
Unknown 3 · 0.1%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

8
Date Company
16-10-2026 ME&WE
BE 1003.168.852
12-10-2026 Warsame Aden, Mohamed
BE 0792.727.451 · sole trader · Kortrijk
05-10-2026 Ahmadzai, Anwar
BE 0760.771.691 · sole trader · Oostende
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

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the registered office
fewer moremax 492

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 773.9m amount as published 3 recipients · 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 532 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 53, not NACE 532 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.